Ulaanbaatar to Southgobi #1

Welcome to Mongolia! All riders will be picked up from the Chinggis Khaan International Airport and transferred to a hotel in Ulaanbaatar’s city center. You can join a group in the hotel lobby if you are already in Ulaanbaatar. Drive 340 km to Khuld Soum, then ride a motorbike and follow the dirt road to White Stupa. The crew will have an ice-breaking party and welcome dinner, followed by an overnight stay at a traditional Mongolian yurt.

Meals: B/L/D
Accommodation: Traditional tourist yurt camp

-After breakfast, we will continue heading south with a brief stop in Southgobi province where you will refuel and buy groceries for the next few days. We will have to ride further for 270 km’ to reach the Southgobi province Dalanzadgad city. We will cross the immense plains and long uninhabited distances of the South Gobi, where you will hardly cross a vehicle on the road. Lunch will be served in a local village on the way.  You will arrive at the Hotel at the end of the afternoon, where each one will be able to enjoy.

Meals: B/L/D
Accommodation: Hotel

-Today, you leave the Dalanzadgad town and head towards the southernmost part of the Mongolian Gobi Desert. Our final destination of the day is “Yolyn Am” or “Lammergeier Valley”, situated in the Eastern Mountain range of the “Three Beauties Mountain Range”. The Yolyn Am Valley is one of the Nine Wonders in Umnugovi province. It is 56 km from the central town named Dalanzadgad in South Gobi province to reach the valley. We will have lunch in Dalanzadgad town and ride to the “Lammergeier Valley”, which is 56 km from the town. Upon arrival at the valley, it is advised to walk through the valley since it gets narrower the further you go. Lammergeier Valley goes through between the high rocky mountain massifs of the Eastern Beauty. We will explore the area walking through the high gorges of Yolin Am. Finally, you will arrive at Ger camp where you can rest and enjoy the evening. This is the camp we will stay in for the next two days.

Meals: B/L/D
Accommodation: Traditional tourist yurt camp

-After breakfast, we will continue exploring the Gurvan Saikhan National Park. Our final destination of the day will be Khongor Sand Dune. Khongor Sand Dune is located in the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park and is one of the Nine Wonders in Umnugovi province. It is located 216km away in the west of the central town Dalanzadgad of the province. Khongor dunes stretch for 130 km, and their width varies from 3 to 20 km, settled between the Sevrei, Zuulun, and Bayan Bor high mountain ranges. Today will be a hard day, but no less spectacular, with different types of roads, including sand. You will enjoy riding parallel to the largest set of dunes in the southern area of the Gobi. After lunch, we will explore the area on our bikes and do other activities, like riding camels for 30 minutes or hiking up to the dunes. Visit of the nomad family will be the highlight of the day. We will ride back to our camp after we are done exploring. Dinner and overnight stay in the Ger camp. This is the camp we will stay in for the next two days.

Meals: B/L/D
Accommodation: Traditional tourist yurt camp

– After our breakfast, we will reach the steppes. We will travel from the south to the north through the green Mongolian steppes on the day when we will do more kilometers of the tour. We will cross Flaming Cliff (Bayanzag) on the way. The Flaming Cliffs is the canyons more typical of Arizona and documented by the adventurer and explorer Roy Andrews Chapman in 1923, which is said to have been the inspiration for the Indiana Jones character. We will again pack our lunch from our camp in the morning and have it on the way. Upon arrival, we will hike around the area, exploring and experiencing the area as the way the expeditioners did. After riding around and exploring the area, we will head back to the ger camp for rest. Dinner and overnight stay in the tourist yurt camp.

Meals: B/L/D
Accommodation: Traditional tourist yurt camp

– After breakfast, we rode through the steppes and arrived in the town of Dalanzadgad, where we had lunch and boarded a bus to Ulaanbaatar. We will take you to the airport.

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