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Overview

A panoramic vintage van ride'll take us to the Tsagaan Suvarga Canyon where you can visualize how Mars planet looks like. This Mongolian gobi desert vacation package includes Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park, which allows you to see stunning sand dunes, towering red cliffs and ice canyon. During the trip, you will get an opportunity to ride a Bactrian camel across the gobi desert, visit a local nomadic family and explore the most famous desert attractions in Mongolia. The Gobi Desert Tour is ideal for everyone seeking for an amazing adventure across Mongolian desert.

Highlights

  • Explore Mongolian semi-desert landscapes combined with the ancient tradition of nomadic life
  • Experience your life's the greatest thrill with an incredible camel ride in the gobi desert
  • Witness breathtaking sunset over the Singing Dunes
  • Visit a camel herding nomadic family
  • Enjoy a scenic walk in Yolyn Am gorge
  • Discover the famous flaming cliffs

Itinerary

DAY 1. TO BAGA GAZARYN CHULUU / GRANITE ROCK HILLS /
 Head to our first destination “Baga gazaryn chuluu” , a magnificent view of granite rock hills, covers a 15km x 10km area, lies at the intersection between Gobi-Desert and Steppe zone. Plenty of small stacked rocks on flat layers of granites are everywhere and there are several sights to see such as a mineral spring for eye sight, old temple remnants surrounded by birch trees and naturally formed small caves. It is an ideal for rock scrambling and hiking.
DAY 2. TO GOBI GURVAN SAIKHAN NATIONAL PARK / YOLYN AM GORGE /

 Drive to Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park to visit Yolyn am, a deep and narrow gorge with steep rock walls situated at the southern end of the Altai Mountain Range. The Gorge is named after vulture, which is called Yol in Mongolian as well as known as ice canyon. The ice field reaches over 3m deep in some years, and stretches several kilometers. The ice field remained whole year round in the past years, but lately the ice tends to disappear in mid-July due to global warming.

DAY 3/4. TO KHONGOR SAND DUNES

Head to Khongor sand dunes, the second largest and most spectacular sand dunes in Mongolia that offers the iconic images of the Gobi Desert which we strive for. The dunes stretched in an extraordinary 120km, 3-28km wide and about 300m high from its base to top. Here we’ll enjoy camel riding in the endless steppe and climb up to the peak of a singing dune to see gorgeous sunset and amazing panoramic views of the surrounding oasis.

DAY 5. TO BAYANZAG / FLAMING CLIFFS /

Drive to "The Flaming Cliffs or Bayan Zag – saxaul forest lies around 90 km from the Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park. The place became famous with its first scientifically recognized dinosaur fossilized eggs in the world and different species of dinosaur skeletons was discovered by Roy Andrew Chapman, American explorer in 1923.

DAY 6. TO TSAGAAN SUVARGA / WHITE CANYON /

   Head to Tsagaan Suvarga, located in the Southwest of Dundgovi province. It is a big limestone escarpment facing east, which looks like Mars planet from its top and it provides excellent scenery of the amazing limestone formations created by the wind. The place is an ancient seabed aged over 70 million years and offers naturally formed sedimentary fissures with multiple colors of ochre.

DAY 7. BACK TO ULAANBAATAR CITY    

Drive back to Ulaanbaatar city and transferred to accommodation.

Inclusions

Included
  • Transportation & fuel
  • Accommodations during the trip
  • Admission tickets
  • English speaking tour guide
  • Tours & activities listed in the itinerary
  • Airport transfer on arrival
  • All meal ( BLD )
  • Camel riding
  • Mineral water
  • Camping gear
Excluded
  • International airfare
  • Travel insurance
  • Tourist sites not listed in the itinerary
  • Personal items
  • Alcoholic beverage ( available to purchase )
  • Pre & post tour accommodation
  • Gratuity to tour guide & driver ( discretionary )

Map

Mongolia Gobi Desert Tour: 7 Day Desert Vacation Package

 
 Tour Duration7 Days
Max Group Size18 pax
  AvailabilityMarch to Dec
 
 Best Price Guarentee
 Customizable Travel Itinerary
Starting from
$598pp*
$680pp*
Group sizePrice per personTour price
1$ 2,350$ 2350
2$ 1,270$ 2,540
3$ 983$ 2,949
4$ 800$ 3,200
5$ 695$ 3,475
6$ 598$ 3,588
Larger group on request

SUGGESTED TOUR EXTENSIONS

  • Extend to Khermen Tsav Canyon
  • Extend to Zorgol Khairkhan Mountain
  • Extend to Hustai National Park
  • Extend further into Central Mongolia

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