This tour takes 8 days to cover Eagle festival, Terelj national park, Orkhon Valley, Mini Gobi.
Eagle festival
Terelj national park is one of the most touristic attractions around Ulaanbaatar city. It has been the strictly protected area since 1965. It’s connected with Ulaanbaatar by a paved road. The park wildlife includes brown bears, grey wolves, foxes and over two hundred species of birds.
Chinggis Khan Statue is 40-metre (130 ft) tall statue of Chinggis Khan on horseback, on the back of the Tuul river at TSONJIN BOLDOG. The statue is symbolically pointed east towards his birthplace.
Eagle festival happens 11:00 to 18:00 at Chingisiin Khuree (20km away from the center)
During the festival we meet the eagle hunters and for the eagle experiences, There are approximately 400 registered Eagle hunters due to the Mongolian Eagle Hunters’ Association. The average age of the eagle hunters is 30 to 70 years while the oldest of them is 88 years old. During the festival you will watch following competitions
Semi Gobi /Khugnu Tarna natural reserve/ covers 46,990 hectares of land and located in Rashaant soum of Bulgan province. The park is a splendid mountain and situated at the border of three provinces. In the natural reserve, there are extraordinary sand dunes about 80 kilometers. The scenery is spectacular combination of desert, picturesque mountain, river and green grassland.
Orkhon Valley is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Central Mongolia. It is formed by the unique combination of volcanic eruption and earthquake. One of the most beautiful places in central Mongolia is the Ulaantsutgalan waterfall.
About 20,000 years ago, the waterfall was formed by an exceptional merge of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. The elevation of the waterfall is around 20m (65 feet) whose river flows in an amazing 1120km journey to the north before it joins the grand Selenge River. It flows from an imposing height of 20 meters and its width is 10 meters.
Kharakhorum was one of the most important cities in the history of the Silk Road. Although founded by Genghis Khan in 1220, Kharakhorum development as capital of the Mongol Empire occurred in the 1230s under his son Ugudei. We will also visit to Erdene zuu monastery which holds significant historical and religious importance as one of the oldest surviving monasteries in the country.
Breakfast at 9 am, then we head to Ulaanbaatar.
