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Days: 15
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Your Price Includes:
- Scheduled direct flights, including all U.K. and overseas airport taxes and applicable fuel surcharges
- Tour Manager The services of an experienced Bales Tour Manager, who takes care of all the tipping on your behalf
- Guides English-speaking guides, exclusive to the Bales group, for all included sightseeing
- Transportation Private vehicles, exclusive to the Bales group.
- Please note these itineraries involve travelling off the beaten track, with long and tiring road journeys by jeep over difficult terrain
- Sightseeing As detailed, including entrance fees
- Accommodation and meals Modern first class hotel in Beijing. Medium grade hotel in Ulan Bator. Basic accommodation in ‘gers’ elsewhere.
- Meals as indicated in the itineraries
- Average group size 15 passengers
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Day 1
Leave London Heathrow in the evening by Air China flight to Beijing.
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Day 2
Arrive in Beijing where we transfer to the Xiyuan Hotel.
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Day 3
At leisure in Beijing with optional sightseeing. Dinner this evening
provides the opportunity to get to know your fellow travellers.
Meals: B, D
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Day 4
4 Morning flight to Ulan Bator where this afternoon we enjoy a visit to
the Winter Palace Museum. Our stay is at Bayangol Hotel.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 5
Mongolia’s largest and most colourful festival, the Naadam, traces
its roots back to the nomadic gatherings of the Mongol armies. We enjoy
the spectacle of the opening ceremony today and some of the displays
of wrestling, archery and horse racing that have become the mainstay of
the event. Evening folklore performance and Gala dinner.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 6
Driving to Karakorum via the Hustain Nuruu Natural Reserve we visit
the Prjewalski Wild Horses, before continuing to Erdenezuu, Mongolia’s first
Buddhist monastery. Tonight we stay at the Anar Ger Camp.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 7
Journey into Mongolia’s isolated and mountainous southern
regions. Visit the atmospheric ruins of Ongiin Monastery, once the largest
in southern Mongolia before overnighting in Ongi Ger Camp.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 8
Driving into the arid steppes of the South Gobi we enter the Gobi
Gurvan Saikhan National Park where we stay at the Three Camel Lodge
Ger Camp.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 9
Spend the day in this remote region, visiting the Eagle’s Valley and
the surreal landscape of Bayanzag’s Flaming Cliffs where a staggering
diversity of dinosaur bones and eggs have been discovered.
Meals: B, L , D
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Day 10
Continue northeast, across the steppes of the Middle Gobi.
Travelling through a landscape of flat dry plains our long day’s drive finally
brings us to the gers of the Middle Gobi Ger Camp.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 11
The centre of these parched plains is home to the granite
formations of Baga Gazriin Chuluu, where we can find rock drawings
left by two revered 19th century monks. This afternoon we visit the rock
inscriptions of Tsogt Taij and the nearby prehistoric stone paintings.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 12
Return to Ulan Bator where we stay at the Bayangol Hotel.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 13
To the northeast of the city lies the Terelj Valley where we visit the
impressive Turtle Rock and local nomadic families.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 14
Fly to Beijing for overnight at the Xiyuan Hotel.
Meals: B
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Day 15
Afternoon flight by Air China to London Heathrow.
Meals: B
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