Experiences
Experiences and ways to travel
From hiring a driver for a week to riding for ten days, these are the main ways travelers experience Mongolia — with honest notes on what each involves.
Ways to travel
How your trip is organised matters as much as where you go.
Private & tailor-made travel
Private Tours in Mongolia: How They Work and What You're Paying For
What a private Mongolia tour actually is — driver, guide, vehicle, camps — how it differs from a group tour, realistic costs, and how to tell a good private trip from a poor one.
Southern Mongolia
Private Gobi Tours: Planning Your Own Desert Trip
How to plan a private Gobi trip from Ulaanbaatar: route options, how many days, flying vs driving, vehicles, camps, realistic costs and the questions to ask an operator.
Drivers & driver-guides
Hiring a Private Driver (or Driver-Guide) in Mongolia
How hiring a private driver in Mongolia works: day rates, what is and isn't included, vehicle types, driver vs driver-guide, language, and how to avoid common misunderstandings.
Tailor-made planning
Custom Mongolia Trips: Designing an Itinerary Around You
How a custom Mongolia itinerary gets designed: the questions that matter, the constraints of distance and season, sensible region combinations and what you'll receive from us.
Activities
Riding
Horse Trekking in Mongolia: Where, How Hard, and What to Expect
Horse riding in Mongolia from a two-hour ride to a multi-day trek: the best regions, what Mongolian horses and saddles are like, experience needed, safety, insurance and season.
Gobi & Elsen Tasarkhai
Camel Riding and Camel Trekking in the Gobi
Riding Bactrian camels in Mongolia: short rides at Khongoryn Els and Elsen Tasarkhai, multi-day camel treks, the winter camel festival, comfort, cost and what to expect.
Accommodation & culture
Staying in a Ger: Tourist Camps vs Herder Families
What sleeping in a Mongolian ger is really like — tourist ger camps vs herder-family homestays, bathrooms, heating, food, etiquette and how to choose the right level for you.
Nature
Wildlife in Mongolia: What You Can Realistically See
What wildlife you can realistically see in Mongolia: easy (takhi, raptors, marmots), with effort (gazelles, argali, ibex) and specialist-only (snow leopard).
Photography
Photography Trips in Mongolia: Light, Seasons, Access and Etiquette
Planning a Mongolia trip around photography: when the light is best, why your driver matters, dawn and dusk logistics, power and dust, drones, and photographing people.
Winter travel
Winter in Mongolia: What It's Really Like and Who It's For
Travelling Mongolia from November to March: extreme cold, short days, roads, winter festivals, what still operates and why preparation matters more than in summer.
Festivals
Western Mongolia · Bayan-Ölgii
Eagle Hunters and the Golden Eagle Festival in Western Mongolia
Visiting the Kazakh eagle hunters of Bayan-Ölgii: the Golden Eagle Festival (early October), the smaller Sagsai festival, family visits, winter hunting trips, logistics and ethics.
Festival · July
Naadam Festival: Dates, Tickets and How to Experience It
Mongolia's Naadam festival of wrestling, horse racing and archery: national Naadam dates in Ulaanbaatar, tickets, local countryside Naadams, crowds and how to plan around it.
Mongolia Relay
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