Ulaanbaatar City Museum

Pick up from hotel and begin drive to the Gobi desert. On the way spend time at the Middle Gobi White Shrine or Tsagaan Suvragaa, with beautiful desert views, before making our stop for the evening at a traditional ger camp accommodation.

Gobi Desert

We head south to Dalanzadgad the South Gobi provincial capital, then into the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan (the three beauties of the Gobi) mountains. We'll do a walk in Yolin Am then lunch and head to Nomad ger camp for the night.

Khongoryn Els

Traveling west along the mountains we begin to glimpse the large sand dune. These are the famous singing sands of Mongolia. We can climb to the top, ride camels and stay for the night in a local ger camp.

Flaming Cliffs

We now return east towards Bayanzag, making our way through winding valley's to visit to a smal hill top temple built by the local herder community before staying with a local herder family for the night in a traditional herder ger stay. In the morning we travel to the famous flaming cliffs

Flaming Cliffs

Today we travel east and to Bayanzag, or the Flaming Cliffs, made famous by Roy Chapman Andrews, the real character Indiana Jones was modeled after. Here you can take a walk among the beautiful area and visit the new museum with its dinosaur exhibits. We then head back to Dalanzadgad and a hotel for the night. There will be enough time to visit the new desert museum to learn more about the gobi and its people.

Ulaanbaatar

We have an early start to travel back to Ulaanbaatar. To break up the drive, we take a diversion about halfway to Baga Gazriin Chuluu, an interesting landscape of granite rock formations. It’s a local protected area, and habitat to Argali (mountain sheep); there is also an old monastery nestled in this picturesque landscape. We have a picnic lunch here before setting out for the last few hours drive to Ulaanbaatar. Check into hotel or guesthouse.