Central Mongolia

In the morning you will be picked up by us and we start our tour with a visit to the main monastery
"Gandan Tegchlen". After the sightseeing, we continue our drive to Hustai National Park, where you
can see wild horses and other animals. Here is the habitat for the Przewski horses, called Takhi in
Mongolian. These extinct wild horses were again expelled in 1992. About 15 horses were brought
over. Today there are over 400 horses in the national park. After having lunch in Ger-camp, we drive
a bit into the national park to look at the horses. We’ll have Mongolian traditional dinner and stay
overnight in Ger-camp.

After the breakfast, we make our way to the magnificent rock formation of "Khugnu Khan" nature
reserve. Here we discover the semi-desert steppe. Breathtakingly beautiful granite rock mountains
and 80km long sand dune are characteristic for this dry area with the nickname "mini gobi". We’ll
take a ride on camelback for a while and explore the area in talking. In the afternoon we walk to the
monastery "Erdene Khamba", where in the 17th century on the southern slope of mountain
"Khugnu Khan" was built. We’ll have a dinner around fire and enjoy star in the sky. Overnight in a
ger.

After breakfast we continue our journey towards the monastery "Tuvkhun". The path to the
monastery is alternately diverse. The first part is continued by car, on foot about 5 km to the
monastery. It is a meditation monastery where the Budhist head of Mongolia Zanabazar invented his
Soyombo script. From there you have a wonderful panoramic view over the mountain range
"Khangai". We continue our journey and in the afternoon we reach the waterfall "Ulaan Tsutgalan".
It's magical to see that the waterfall turns a rainbow into sunlight. Afterwards we arrive in our ger
camp and finish the day.

After breakfast we drive in the direction of "Kharakhorum". It was founded in the year 1220 by
Genghis Khaan and developed under the reign of his son to the first capital of the Mongol Empire.
As a result of several attacks of the Chinese, it was completely destroyed in 1388. Later they served
as building material for the construction of the Buddhist monastery "Erdene Zuu", which started in
the 17th century on the ruins of "Kharakhorum". We’ll ride a horse for a while and have a lunch in the
ancient city.

Our last day of travel we return to Ulaanbaatar. In the afternoon we are in Ulaanbaatar. We can do
some shopping after or before farewell dinner.