Attend Mongolia’s Golden Eagle Festival while exploring the Gobi and steppe, visiting national parks, dunes and ancient sites, and meeting nomadic families on a multi-day adventure starting and ending in Ulaanbaatar.
  • Attend the Golden Eagle Festival in the Altai Mountains.
  • Explore Yolyn Am canyon in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park.
  • Hike the Flaming Cliffs of Bayanzag, famed for dinosaur fossils.
  • Walk the Khongoryn Els Singing Dunes in the Gobi Desert.
  • Visit Erdene Zuu Monastery and the ruins of Karakorum.
  • Trek Khustain Nuruu to see wild Przewalski’s horses.
  • Meet nomadic families and taste traditional Mongolian dairy products.
  • Visit the world’s tallest equestrian statue of Genghis Khan.
We stay in hotels in Ulaanbaatar and Arvaikheer, with traditional ger camps elsewhere. Gers have shared bathrooms with hot water (occasionally erratic) and charging in-gers or communal areas. At the Eagle Festival, accommodation is four per ger; otherwise two per ger; hotels are twin-share; Olgii camps are more basic.