Trip overview

Our culinary tour offers Mongolian popular traditional dishes to learn how to cook whilst traveling through Mongolian beautiful countryside. Enjoying the best sights in the Gobi-Desert while learning the local dishes on the road will be one the best way to get to know Mongolia. Even Mongolia is an underrated destination for food tour, but you will see that it is completely different and unique than the other culinary destination. Let our professional travel guides who have involved cooking class to teach you their favorite local dishes and then you can make on your own at home.

Highlights

Discover Iconic Gobi-Desert
Cook the best local dishes
Hiking
Camel riding
Explore the largest sand dunes of Mongolia

Itinerary

DAY 1. 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 an ancient city ruin from a far distance and it provides excellent scenery of the amazing limestone formations created by the wind. Once reach to our first camp our professional guide or cook will teach you one of his or her best local dishes.

DAY 2. TO GOBIGURVAN SAIKHAN NATIONAL PARK /YOLYN AM/

Drive to Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park to visit Yolyn am, a deep valley with steep rock walls situated at the southern end of the Altai Mountain Range. The Valley 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. You will learn how to cook a Mongolian traditional hot stone barbeque for this evening.

DAY 3. TO KHONGORYN ELS /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. Today we'll enjoy our dinner from a local camp where we'll stay.

DAY 4. TO FLAMING CLIFFS /BAYAN ZAG/

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. This evening an another amazing local dish will be cooked.

DAY 5. TO BAGAGAZARYN CHULUU

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 hiking and as usual you will cook another new Mongolian meal.

DAY 6. RETURN TO ULAANBAATAR CITY

Drive back to Ulaanbaatar and transferred to accommodation.