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 Ride the Mongolian Train to the Eastern Gobi: Fossil Excavation and the Meditation Sites of Ancient Lamas

8 days / 7 nights tour MO-05

Duration8 days / 7 nights
AccommodationStandard hotel / ger
Meals7 breakfasts, 6 lunches, 6 dinners
GuideEnglish guide
Price2 people: $1,290
Departure pointChinggis Khaan Airport

Overview

Tour codeMO-05
Number of days8 days / 7 nights
Departure pointChinggis Khaan Airport
AccommodationStandard hotel / ger
Meals7 breakfasts, 6 lunches, 6 dinners
Hotel usedStandard room
Local guideEnglish guide
Minimum number of participantsFrom 1 person
Booking methodBook online
Local tour price2 people: $1,290

Itinerary

DayScheduleMealsAccommodation
1
Day
Ulaanbaatar
Transport: private car

Fly from Narita Airport to Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar. After arrival, a local English-speaking staff member will meet you and guide you to your hotel.

Dinner: not includedCity hotel🏨
2
Day
Ulaanbaatar → Sainshand City
Transport: Trans-Siberian Railway

In the morning, visit Gandan Monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist temple, and the Bogd Khan Museum.

In the afternoon, take the continental train to Sainshand. Enjoy the train journey.

Breakfast: ○
Lunch: ○
Dinner: ○
Sleeper train🚆
3
Day
World Energy Center
Transport: private car

After breakfast: visit Khamar Monastery. Sightsee at the World Energy Center. Next see dinosaur bones, petrified trees and the prayer caves. Visit the rocky places that ancient lamas used as meditation sites. Fossil excavation experience nearby. Return to the ger camp. After lunch: see the sand dunes and the forest of saxaul trees.

Breakfast: ○
Lunch: ○
Dinner: ○
Tourist camp ger⛺
4
Day
Sainshand → Ulaanbaatar
Transport: private car, Trans-Siberian Railway

After breakfast, go by private car to a place called "Black Mountain," about 70 km away.

Black Mountain sightseeing.

On the way, visit a nomad's ger. Camel riding experience.

Afternoon: prayers. Depart for Sainshand Station at 18:00. See the Danzanravjaa Museum. Dine at the restaurant at Sainshand Station. Depart on the train for Ulaanbaatar at 20:00.

Enjoy the sleeper train journey.

Breakfast: ○
Lunch: ○
Dinner: ○
Sleeper train🚆
5
Day
Ulaanbaatar → Terelj Park
Transport: private car, horse

After arriving at Ulaanbaatar Station around 08:00, go by private car to Terelj Nature Park. On the way, see Turtle Rock, then walk to Aryabal Monastery. After enjoying the nature around Terelj Park, visit a nomad's ger and enjoy meeting local people. Lunch at the nomad's ger. In the afternoon enjoy hiking and horse riding. Leave Terelj Park and move to a nomad's ger. 1-night homestay experience. In the evening, enjoy stargazing.

Breakfast: ○
Lunch: ○
Dinner: ○
Nomad's ger⛺
6
Day
Terelj → Ulaanbaatar
Transport: private car

After breakfast, visit the Chinggis Khaan Statue. See the museum and video inside the statue.

Ulaanbaatar city sightseeing. Zaisan Hill with views over the whole city, Sukhbaatar Square in the center of the city, and shopping at the food zakh (market), where you can glimpse everyday city life. In the evening, we will take you to a Mongolian folk dance concert.

Breakfast: ○
Lunch: ○
Dinner: ○
City hotel🏨
7
Day
Ulaanbaatar

After breakfast, free time.

You may also join a local optional tour.

Breakfast: ○City hotel🏨
8
Day
Ulaanbaatar
Transport: private car

After breakfast, take a private car to Ulaanbaatar Airport.

Fly home.

Breakfast: ○-

*Itinerary and times may change depending on weather and road conditions.

Highlights and Information

World Shambhala Land, Mongolian Hot Spots, Fossil Excavation and the Meditation Sites of Ancient Lamas, 8-Day Tour. In the Eastern Gobi, experience the wonders of the Gobi region: Khamariin Khiid Monastery, Buddhist temples, sand dunes and the Gobi forest. Also fossil excavation experiences, such as dinosaur and ancient shell fossils.

Visit South Khamar Monastery, founded by Danzanravjaa, the famous 19th-century Mongolian scholar, poet and Living Buddha of the Gobi. It is said to have been the cultural center of Mongolia around the 19th century. The monastery was renovated in 1990 and enshrines old Buddha statues. Many pilgrims still visit it today.There are large and small caves where the high lamas who spread Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia performed their prayers. The ruins of the Saran Khukh Theatre, Mongolia's first theater.You can visit a place revered as the World Energy Center.

Gobi Nature
You can see features of the Mongolian Gobi: sand dunes, oases, forests of saxaul trees, the astonishing rocks called Senjit Khad, petrified trees and 200-million-year-old dinosaur bones that remain in their natural state.

Danzanravjaa Museum
The Danzanravjaa Museum was founded in 1991 in memory of the greatest and most unusual intellectual in Mongolian history. The museum displays Danzanravjaa's original artistic works and literary manuscripts, together with his books, religious items, stage costumes, personal belongings and similar objects illustrating his life and work. A 17th-century Japanese samurai sword is also on display.

World Energy Center Shambhala Land
Danzanravjaa, the Living Buddha of the Gobi, had his disciples gather among the many colored hills (near Khamar Monastery) and lay out the plans for where Shambhala would land, and built a place for meditation practice with wooden stupas, doors and a pile of stones. At that place, his holiness prayed to meet all his disciples in the sacred Shambhala Land, and this place is known as where Shambhala now lands. Therefore it is one of the holiest places today for prostrations and circumambulation.

Khamar Monastery
Khamar Monastery was founded in the 1820s by Danzanravjaa, the famous 19th-century Mongolian educator and literary figure. The monastery was an important center of the Red Sect of Buddhism and the seat of the Living Buddha of the Gobi. He was an outspoken critic of the society he lived in, its rigid class system and the characteristics of his age. He devoted great effort to the cause of public education, which he advanced at Khamar Monastery through founding public schools, a theater, a museum and a library.

 Terelj National Park

On the private-car journey from Ulaanbaatar to Terelj National Park (70 km) you can see interestingly shaped rocks and stones; please look at Turtle Rock among them.
A popular tourist attraction with rocky mountains of rare shapes said to be natural miracles and the 15 m tall Turtle Rock. It was protected as a national park around 1993. Not only local Mongolians but tourists from many countries come to enjoy this scenery. You can enjoy horse trekking, hiking and mountain walks in beautiful nature, meet nomads who live on the steppe caring for livestock, taste homemade dairy products, and even climb Turtle Rock. 

Chinggis Khaan Statue Theme Park: The Chinggis Khaan Statue Theme Park stands on a hill above the Tuul River, 54 km east of Ulaanbaatar, surrounded by beautiful natural scenery. The memorial site, known as Tsonjin Boldog, shares the history of that era. The park covers 212 hectares, and a 30 m tall horse statue rises at its center on a circular pedestal 12 m high and 30 m in diameter.

13th Century National Park of Mongolia: The village recreates 13th-century Mongolia as a small kingdom so that visitors can experience the lifestyle of that time in a real setting. Here you can dine with the king and queen, visit the nobles, learn how to write in the Mongolian script, and try playing beautiful natural sounds on the morin khuur, the horse-head fiddle made with horsetail hair.

Tour Points and Schedule Guide



 *The above itinerary and times may change locally depending on weather and traffic congestion on the day. In that case, please follow the instructions of the local staff. We appreciate your understanding.
*Meals may become box lunches, and the hotel / restaurant / ger may each be changed.
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Local Mongolia Tour Points
  • The above price is the per-person price when the tour runs with2people. Depending on the number of participants, a more economical price plan may be available.
  • Accommodation is the hotel listed above or a hotel of equivalent class.
  • In Ulaanbaatar city hotels, two people normally share one room.
  • If one person uses a room alone, an additional charge of $40 per night applies.
  • At tourist camps, rooms (gers) are normally shared by 2–4 people.
  • If you use a tourist camp ger as a single, an additional charge of $25 per night applies.
  • An English-speaking guide stays with you throughout, and a professional licensed driver is arranged.
  • The vehicle is a private vehicle suited to the number of people: sedan, minibus, 4WD, etc.
  • Meals: as stated in the itinerary (standard three-course meals)
  • Sightseeing and meals may change due to local conditions such as weather or flight delays.
  • We also accept requests for additional arrangements such as extra nights, a private guide or a private car, and for hotel specification or upgrades.
    *Please consult us when booking.
  • We can arrange Mongolia flight tickets. If you wish, please clickMongolia discount flight tickets.
  • Based on this itinerary, we can also arrange extending your stay or adding destinations. Please feel free to consult us.

Operating conditions and notes

Booking deadline

For tour bookings, please book at least 15 days before departure (excluding public holidays). If a booking is made after that, we will first reply to you by email to confirm that we can reach each other reliably before we start the arrangements. Bookings 7 days or more before departure will be accommodated as far as possible, so please consult us. (Cancellation charges start from 10 days before, so please note.) Please check the usage guide before booking.

Price notes

This course operates from 2 people, but we can accept a booking for 1 person. In that case an additional charge for a one-person departure and a single-room supplement apply. Please ask us for the price of a one-person departure before booking.

Payment method

After you reserve by email and phone, we will send a travel confirmation and an invoice to your email address. After checking the invoice, transfer 50% of the tour price to our bank account. The booking becomes official after we confirm receipt. The remaining 50% is paid by bank transfer before the trip starts.

Included in the tour price

Meal costs and service charges stated in the itinerary
Accommodation costs and service charges stated in the itinerary
Sightseeing costs stated in the itinerary (guide fee, admission fees)
Domestic flights or free internet and water

Not included in the tour price

Round-trip international airfare or international train fare

Optional tour fees

Overseas travel insurance

Personal souvenirs

Beer, liquor and other alcoholic drinks

Cancellation fees

From 18:00 local time 10 business days before the tour date to 18:00 local time 8 business days before: 20% of the total booking amount

From 18:00 local time 7 business days before the tour date to 18:00 local time 5 business days before: 30% of the total booking amount

From 18:00 local time 4 business days before the tour date to 18:00 local time 2 business days before: 40% of the total booking amount

From 18:00 local time 2 business days before the tour date to 1 business day before: 50% of the total booking amount

On the tour date: 100% of the total booking amount

 

How to Book

How to Book

1. Inquiry
Please tell us your dates, number of people and flight information.

2. Itinerary and quote
We will send you an itinerary and a quote.

3. Booking
Please send a copy of your passport (up to 15 days before departure).

4. Travel confirmation and invoice
We will send you a travel confirmation and an invoice.

5. Payment
Transfer 50% of the invoiced amount (the booking is confirmed after we confirm receipt). Please transfer the remaining 50% before departure.

For participation conditions, cancellation rules and more, please seeMongolia Travel Guide/Basic Information.

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