The majestic western Mongolia is definitely the most remote and beautiful part of Mongolia. Western Mongolia is home to snowcapped mountains, numerous ethnic groups, beautiful lakes, and the rarest wild species. This journey will lead you far into the mountainous landscape of Bayan-Ulgii where you will witness firsthand a unique tradition that has survived for centuries in this remote corner of Central Asia, all while experiencing wonderful Kazakh hospitality.
Western Mongolian most famous activities included this trip such as Tavan Bogd National Park, trekking to Malchin peak, Botanin Glacier, Khurgan Khoton lakes, Baga Turgen waterfall, and Shiveet Khairkhan rock drawing-World Cultural Heritage site by UNISCO. During this traveling adventure, you will get to experience the how hunter preparing his eagle for of the hunt alongside these Kazakh nomads and their magnificent golden eagles.
Pick up at your hotel and transfer to airport, take a flight to Ulgii town, the center of Bayan-Ulgii province by domestic airline. Our local staff will greet and welcome you at the airport. Get permissions for next days. Drive to the village of Sogog to stay with an eagle-hunter and his family.
Today we will have great experience of eagle hunter family. They will teach you Eagle teaching training with Eagle hunter every day, riding horseback along with the hunter as he explores the mountains in every direction in search of prey. He is one of the most famous and experience eagle-hunters in the region. Rahmbek has been hunting for more than 30 years and now he focuses on passing the craft onto the next generation of hunters. His daughter who is 9 years old. She will teach to eagle for hunting. Enjoy nature of scenery. To see Eagle hunter’s everyday life style. You can see wild wolf, falcon.
Journey to the most beauty lakes-Khurgan, Khoton and Dayan. Landscape of lakes are very beautiful and picturesque, surrounded snowcapped mountains, west shore has stunning forested. These lakes are home of many species’ fishes and red listed birds: whooper swan, relict gull, 6 of the 15 species of crane in the world.
Our adventure trip keeps driving to Baga Turgen where see majestic waterfall.
Our adventure journey continue to Altai Tavan Bogd. It means The Holy Five Peaks. All snowcapped peaks are the Mongolian highest peak Huiten 4374 m above sea level, Naran, Ulgii, Burged and Nairamdal. As we travel toward entrance of Tavan Bogd National Park. We can see Tsagaan Gol- White River which is from glacier. (We called Milk River). Before dinner hiking to Waterfall. Today we’ll learn about the surrounding ecosystem and the native people who have survived in these hard condition. We’ll stay in local Tuva family and meet local guide who can arrange camel and horse for your luggage to reach base camp FOR NEXT MONRING.
Early morning, we’ll make hiking to base camp about 6-8hours. If we reach to base camp around 4:00PM, we explore Potanin glacier where we will see big cracks from river
We’ll wake up at 5:00AM. Start hiking at 6:00 AM climb up to Malchin peak (4050 m), which is the lowest of The Holy Five Peaks and reasonable climbable amateur without requiring professional mountaineer gears and experienced guide. You will hike more than 6 hours to reach top of mountain, and come down for 4 hours. When we reach the top of Malchin we can see Mongolian flag on the ovoo/pilled rocks/ which was made by one of Mongolian presidents. On the next side see the Russian border/15kms away/ Overnight at the tent.
Hiking back to entrance of National Park. A great deal of the imagery may be connected with human and animal reproduction. While precise dating is impossible, there are plausible hypotheses which correlate certain themes with different periods, reflecting changes in climate and the patterns of human activity.
Thus, some of the drawings arguably pre-date domestication of animals; the petroglyphs document a shift from dependence on hunting to pastoral nomadism in the period between about 2000 BCE (Bronze Age) and 1000 BCE (early Iron Age). At a certain point, chariots or wagons were being used and their images pecked into the rocks. Scenes with animals being ridden are arguably later.
Today we will continue our trip Khara-Airikh Valley
Drive back to Ulgii. Refreshing and relaxing. We will visit Mosque, open air bazaar and museum in Ulgii. For dinner you can have traditional cuisine-five fingers/
We will transfer to airport and take flight back to Ulaanbaatar.
