Wild Mongolia

Day 1: Your Ulaanbaatar airport transfer will take you directly to our joining hotel, ready for an early start tomorrow. Today you will meet your crew for your tour briefing and welcome dinner.
Day 2: We take delivery of our 4WDs. Leaving the bright lights of the city behind we drive to the spectacular Gorkhi- Terelj National Park, but not before stopping enroute to visit the mighty statue of Chinggis Khan, the tallest statue of a horse in the world.
Day 3: A long drive today south through middle Mongolia before reaching the impressive rock formations of Baga Gazarin Chuluu, a 1,750 m / 5,740 ft range of granite rock reminiscent of a lunar landscape. We enjoy our first ger camp experience.
Day 4: We enter the legendary Gobi Desert via a series of remote dirt tracks as we drive south visiting the stunning Yolyn Am, or Valley of the Eagles, a short horse trek is organised into this stunning valley where we still may see ice and if we're lucky Ibex and Vultures.
Day 5: We drive onto the Western Gobi home to the spectacular sand dunes of Khongoryn Els also known as the “singing sands”, each dune is 100 km / 60 mi long and 20 km / 12 mi wide and offer a spectacular light show throughout the day, particularly around sunset.
Day 6: It's a short drive to the sand dunes where we may climb one for epic views of the sea of sands. We will also enjoy a camel ride in the stunning sand dunes of Khongoryn Els and learn about the lives of the Gobi camel herders, lives that could not be further removed from ours.
Day 7: Today we visit the Flaming Cliffs, a world-famous dinosaur site where the remains of a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor locked in a fight were discovered. Our ger camp overlooks the cliffs that glow red at sunset, giving them the name of "flaming Cliffs"
Day 8:Turning north we overnight at a ger camp near the Ongii Khiid Monastery. This monastery was one of the largest and most respected monasteries of Mongolia before its destruction in 1939 by the communist authorities but has been partly rebuilt since the end of Communism.
Day 9: We drive across open grasslands via the UNESCO listed Orkhon Valley, enroute to Kharkhorin. We visit the wonderful Erdene Zuu Monastery built on what was formerly Genghis Khan's capital.
Day 10: From Kharkhorin we turn west to the astonishingly beautiful Khorgo Terkhiin Tsagaan, or Great White Lake. We will enjoy roadside views of the wonderful Chuluut Canyon enroute. Our ger camp is spectacularly located on the shores of Tsaguun Nuur.
Day 11: We venture further into remote Mongolia through a rarely visited region via numerous streams, mountain passes and epic Mongolian Steppe. Today is a 4wd driving highlight topped off by an overnight stay at a remote ger camp. run by a wonderful Mongolian family.
Day 12: Another spectacular day of remote driving through a mountainous landscape punctuated by valleys and steppe. We visit some ancient deer stones that date back to the bronze age. These monoliths are remotely located on a stunning vast green steppe, this is true no man’s land, and we will not see another tourist. Wandering around these deer stones on the silent plains is simply breathtaking. We reach the "Jewel in the Mongolian crown" Khuvsgul Nuur, a breathtaking wonderfully clear water lake surrounded by pine forests and granite peaks.
Day 13: We spend today around Khuvsgul Nuur, exploring the lake on canoe, horseback or simply wandering the shoreline.
Day 14: The landscape now is of yawning valleys and tiny brightly colored villages contrasting against a backdrop of endless green steppe dotted with yaks and herds of wild horses, it’s a scene straight from Genghis Khan's time. Our overnight ger camp is superbly located at the base of a small hill with epic views of the Selenge River a short walk away.
Day 15: Some more remote driving today as we leave the pavement and cross numerous remote passes, where we will not see another tourist, before reaching the Mongolian holiday destination of Ugii Nuur. Although not big Ugii Lake is renowned for the migratory birdlife, fishing, and remarkable sunsets.
Day 16: Our penultimate drive day will see us visit the wonderful Khustai Nuruu National Park. This park is a wildlife success story with the formerly extinct, in the wild, Przewalski's horses reintroduced and now a stock of these wild horses roams here and nowhere else on earth.
Day 17: We go on "safari" today in search of the elusive Przewalski's horses, the only true wild horses left on earth. It's then a short drive back to the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar where we can reminisce on what has been an incredible 4WD adventure into some true off the beaten tourist tracks of Mongolia.
Departure Day: Spend a couple more days in Ulaanbaatar or fly home, the choice is yours.