Tailor-made Mongolia Tours 2026, 2027 & 2028

The Mongolian-Manchurian Steppe is a fence-free expanse where 30% of the population follows seasonal grazing. Travellers stay in felt-walled gers, joining herders to milk livestock and sample airag (fermented mare’s milk). From the Orkhon Valley, a UNESCO site, horse treks follow the river through a landscape of 13th-century burial mounds and the Ulaan Tsutgalan waterfall, where the horizon remains entirely unobstructed by infrastructure.

The Gobi is a high-altitude desert featuring the 300-metre-high Singing Sands of Khongoryn Els. At Bayanzag, red sandstone cliffs protect the world’s most concentrated site for Protoceratops fossils, while the narrow Yolyn Am gorge is so deep that its floor remains iced over until July. This ecosystem supports the rare Bactrian camel and the endangered Gobi bear, thriving in a climate that swings 80°C between seasons.

In Karakorum, the 1585 Erdene Zuu Monastery was constructed using stone blocks from the ruins of Genghis Khan’s capital. During the Naadam Festival, child jockeys compete in 25-kilometre cross-country horse races, while archers and wrestlers demonstrate The Three Manly Games. This nomadic identity is preserved by Kazakh eagle hunters in the western Altai, who train golden eagles to hunt on horseback—a 1,000-year-old tradition.