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Treks close to Ulaanbaatar

Treks in Central Mongolia

Treks in North Mongolia

Treks in West Mongolia

High Mountain treks

Desert treks

Short treks

Long treks

Glacier treks

Treks and fishing

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Trekking close to Ulaanbaatar

1 day trekking: Manshir Monastery trek

• Description: Easy one day trekking from Manshir Monastery to Ulaanbaatar, crossing the Bogdkhan Mountain. This is a trek through the forests.
• Difficulty: easy
• Local Transport: jeep to starting point and after arrival

5 days trekking: Terelj National Park trek

• Description: This is an easy trek, in Terelj National Park, north east of Ulaanbaatar. During the trek you will follow the Tuul river. You will have many opportunities to visit Mongolian nomadic families. This trek is for people who don't have much time in Mongolia or for those who are looking for an easy trek.
• Difficulty: easy
• Trekking days: 2 to 3 days
• Open plain trekking
• Local Transport: few hours driving to reach the starting point and a few hours driving back
• Luggage Transport: support vehicle or pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp and/or family stay

 

Trekking in Central Mongolia

14 days trekking: The White Lake trek

• Description: This is an easy open plain trek, 700 km west of Ulaanbaatar. You will trek around the magnificent Terkhiin Tsagaan White Lake and climb the Khorgo uul volcano. You will have many opportunities to visit Mongolian nomadic families. If you wish, this trek can be adapted to have every night ger camp stay, becoming a luxury trek, the only trek we offer with full ger camp stay.
• Difficulty: easy
• Trekking days: 5 to 7 days
• Open plain trekking
• Lake & forest trekking
• Volcano trekking
• Fishing possible
• Local Transport: minimum 2 days driving one way, no local flight
• Luggage Transport: support vehicle or pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp /or family stay & ger camps
• Optional sightseeing days possible
• Can be combined with another trek
• The trek can be customized

12 days trekking: The Eight Lake Region trek

• Description: This is the most excited trekking we offer in central Mongolia. You will trek from the volcanic area of the Orkhon valley westwards to the region of the 8 lakes. This trek will bring you through a remote area dotted sporadically by Mongolian nomadic families. This trek is for true lovers of unexplored areas. On the way you can pass Tuvkhin Monastery and the Orkhon waterfalls. On the way back you can spend a night at the Tsenger hot water springs end enjoy the warm baths.
• Difficulty: moderate
• Trekking days: 5 to 9 days
• Volcanic region trek
• Alpine lake, forests
• Local Transport: minimum 1 long day driving one way, no local flight
• Luggage Transport: pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp & family stay
• Optional sightseeing days possible
• Can be combined with another trek
• The trek can be customized

 

Trekking in North Mongolia

14 days trekking: Egiin River & Hovsgol Lake trek

• Description: On this moderate trek, you will follow the Egiin river up to the Mongolian bleu pearl: Khovsgol Lake. The first days you will trek along the totally unexplored Eg river where you will have many opportunities to visit Mongolian nomadic families. This trek will give you a true experience of Nomadic lifestyle. For the next days you will trek along the shores of the magnificent Khovsgol lake. At the lake you will have a chance to see the Tsaatan people. The lake, at an altitude of 1650 meters is surrounded by snow-capped mountain peaks. You will have many possibilities for fishing.
• Difficulty: moderate
• Trekking days: 5 to 9 days
• Open steppes trek
• Cultural trek
• River and Lake trek
• Fishing possible
• Local Transport: local flight or minimum 3 days driving one way
• Luggage Transport: support vehicle or pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp & family stay + ger camp stay at the lake
• Optional sightseeing days possible
• Can be combined with another trek
• The trek can be customized

12 days trekking: Darhadiin Valley trek

• Description: This demanding trek will bring you from the Darkhad plateau totally north of Mongolia down to the Hovsgol Lake. You will cross mountain passes with stunning views over the Khovsgol Lake, climb steep mountain hills and walk through dense forest. You will have the opportunity to see many wild animals. The plateau is covered by many rivers and alpine lakes. Even during the summer months, nights can be cold on the Darkhad plateau. Depending on the location of the nomads, this trek will be organized one way or the other way around.
• Difficulty: difficult
• Trekking days: 7 to 9 days
• High mountain plateau
• Alpine lakes, forests
• Fishing possible
• Local Transport: local flight or minimum 3 days driving one way
• Luggage Transport: pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp & family stay
• Optional sightseeing days possible
• Can be combined with another trek
• The trek can be customized

 

Trekking in Western Mongolia

17 days trekking: Otgontenger Mountain trek

• Description: This moderate trek will bring you through the western part of the Khangai Mountain range. You will trek around Otgontenger Mountain, the highest peak of the Khangai Mountain range. Otgontenger Mountain is a snow capped mountain with a glacier. You will hike until the glacier and you will pass many hot and cold water springs. This trek has the big advantage that it can be fully supported by vehicles instead of pack animals. Tired trekkers can do part of the trek sitting in their vehicles. The trek is slightly adapted for full vehicle support trekking.
• Difficulty: moderate
• Trekking days: 7 to 9 days
• Khangai Mountain trek
• Alpine lake & hot springs trek
• Local Transport: local flight or minimum 5 days driving one way
• Luggage Transport: support vehicle or pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp & family stay
• Optional sightseeing days possible
• Can be combined with another trek
• The trek can be customized

15 days trekking: Kharkhiraa Mountain trek

• Description: The amazing trek will bring you through a variety of landscapes. From the open planes where many nomads are settled, you will climb, to reach the high plateau nestled between the Khakhiraa Mountain and the Turgen Mountain, a plateau where the glaciers of the two mountains take their final run. Through a pass, you will descend southwest into the meadow of the one hundred alpine lakes. The Yamaatiin River which waters come from the melding glaciers, flows through the area. You'll trek into the canyons of the Yamaatiin River before reaching the waterfall, the end point of your trekking.
• Difficulty: difficult
• Trekking days: 5 to 9 days
• Glaciers trek
• Green meadows, rushing streams, clear lakes
• Local Transport: local flight or minimum 7 days driving one way
• Luggage Transport: pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp & family stay
• Optional sightseeing days possible
• Can be combined with another trek
• The trek can be customized

15 days trekking: Tavan Bogd Mountain trek

• Description: Located in the remotest corner of the most pristine and wildest country in the world, Tavan Bogd trek offers a rich cultural experience and brings you through green meadows, icy gorges, clear lakes, rushing streams, lush alpine pastures, snow capped peaks, vast glaciers and vast moraines. The area is inhabited by Mongolian nomads and Kazakh and Tuvan hunters whose ways of life have not changed since times unmemorable. Kazakhs have ancient traditions of falconry. The trek will start off from the alpine lakes of Khoton and Khurgan. You will trek along glacial rivers, across lush meadows and icy gorges. Finally you will reach the base of the Tavan Bogd mountain range. Huiten peak, the highest peak of the Altai range is also Mongolia's highest peak. The peak overlooks 3 countries: Mongolia, Russia and China. Those mountain peaks face cold glaciated peaks and vast moraines. Depending of your climbing skills we you will climb one or the other peak.
• Difficulty: difficult
• Trekking days: 5 to 9 days
• Khuiten peak climbing
• Glaciers trek
• Arid, semi-desert region
• Icy gorges
• Kazak & Tuva minorities
• Local Transport: local flight or minimum 7 days driving one way
• Luggage Transport: pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp & family stay
• Optional sightseeing days possible
• Can be combined with another trek
• The trek can be customized

13 days trekking: Tsambagarav Uul Mountain trek

• Description: Tsambagarav Mountain, Mongolia's 3rd highest peak is located in a national park of more than 110 thousand hectares. The permanently snow-capped Tsambagarav Uul straddles the border between Khovd and Bayan-Olgii aimags. Tsambagarav Mountain is accessible from either side. Tavan Belchiriin Uul peak or Tsast Uul peak are relatively accessible and easier to climb than the Tavan Bogd Mountain.
• Difficulty: Difficult
• Trekking days: 5 to 7 days
• Tsast Uul peak climbing
• Glaciers trek
• Lush alpine pastures
• Kazak minorities
• Local Transport: local flight or minimum 8 days driving one way
• Luggage Transport: pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp & family stay
• Optional sightseeing days possible
• Can be combined with another trek
• The trek can be customized

 

Trekking in East Mongolia

14 days trekking: Khentii Mountain trek

• Description: You will trek from alpine lake to alpine lake through, with flowers covered rolling hills and forests. You will cross many rivers, some passes. The Khentii area is inhabited by the Buriat people.
• Difficulty: moderate
• Trekking days: 5 to 9 days
• Open steppes trekking
• Local Transport: minimum 1 days driving one way, no local flight
• Luggage Transport: support vehicle or pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp & family stay
• The trek can be customized

 

Desert Trekkings

12 days trekking: Gobi Desert trek

• Description: This desert trek will bring your through canyons, sand dunes and dried out lakes or evaporates where salt is extracted. You will pass majestic sand and rock formations.
• Difficulty: easy
• Trekking days: 4 to 5 days
• Arid desert trekking
• Canyon & gorges trekking
• Local Transport: local flight or minimum 2 days driving one way
• Luggage Transport: support vehicle or pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp & family stay

16 days trekking: Mongol Els Sand Dunes Trek in West Mongolia

• Description: This trek will be in a region ignored by visitors and Mongolians because of its poor roads and transport infrastructure, and its extreme climate conditions. You will trek through a land of vast deserts, salt lakes and sand dunes where rain falls once or twice a year. Because of the landscape variety of this desert trek, Mongol Els trek is probably one of the world's most beautiful desert treks. You'll trek through graved desert, sand dunes, salt lakes and desert rivers. The trip will end with a jeep ride to an impressive sand dune water source.
• Difficulty: moderate
• Trekking days: 6 to 8 days
• Arid desert trekking
• Salt Lake trekking
• Sand dune trekking
• Desert river trekking
• Local Transport: local flight or minimum 2 days driving one way
• Luggage Transport: support vehicle or pack animals
• Accommodation: tented camp & family stay

 

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