Tour highlights: BayanGobi/Hognokhaan Mountain/Kharkhorin/Erdenezuu Monastery/Orkhon/Waterfall/Bayanhongor/ Shargaljuut hot springs/South Gobi/Middle Gobi/Naadam festival.
Tour description: This overland tour will give its members a chance to experience the real Mongolia, meet the natives at every stop, experience the hospitality of mongolian people, get to know their everyday life .

Day 1  (June 28) Upon arrival in Ulaanbaatar you will be transferred to your hotel. In the evening enjoy a welcome dinner at the hotel.

Day 2 (June29) After breakfast go on the city tour of Ulaanbaatar. Visit to Museum of Natural History (the greatest display of dinosaur skeletons in the world), Gandantechilen Hiid Monastery, the biggest functioning Buddhist monastery in Ulaanbaatar.  Return to your hotel.

Day 3(June 30)Drive to BayanGobi (4 hours) or Fly directly to Karakorum. Explore the natural beauty of the land where sand dunes and high mountains are in one spot, hiking in Hognokhaan mountain, visit the ruins of the hidden temple, which is being reconstructed, trekking in the sand-dunes.

Day 4(July 1) Onward travel to Kharkhorin (4hours)-the ancient capital of Mongols. Visit the Erdenezuu Monastery-Museum. Stay in the hotel or tent-camp on the coast of Orkhon river.

Day 5 (July 2) Drive to Orkhon waterfall over rocky and bumpy roads). Picnic. Visit a yak breeders family. Enjoy the taste of yak milk tea and yak milk curds. Yak riding.

Day 6-7 (July 3-4) After breakfast onward travel to Bayanhongor province. Visit to Shargaljuut Hot Springs. Healing power of this spring cures many diseases.

Day 8 (July 5) Drive towards South Gobi. This is the land you will encounter very few or almost no people or vehicles. Enjoy the quiet and isolation.

Day 9(July 6) In South Gobi you will stay in a ger camp. After breakfast drive to the Flaming Cliffs (Bayanzag) the graveyard of dinosaurs, where dinosaur eggs are still being found nowadays. Picnic.

Day 10-11(July 7-8) Drive to Yol Valley. Frozen stream in the middle of the desert. Hiking and exploring the wildlife of Gobi desert. Visit a camel-breeders family.  Camel riding trip (1 day-optional).

Day 12 (July 9) Back to Ulaanbaatar. Overnight stay in Middle Gobi. Ger camp.

Day 13 (July 10) Continue to Ulaanbaatar. Arrive in the afternoon. Free afternoon.

Day 14 (July 11) Naadam festival starts. Opening ceremony at the main stadium. Watch national wrestling competiton (512 participants) and archery. After lunch go to horse-race, all afternoon there. In the evening attend public dance party on Sukhbaatar Square (optional). Fireworks.

Day 15 (July 12 ) Visit to Bogd Khaan Winter Palace Museum. Visit the Naadam participants and their families from countryside at their encampment. Cultural Folk performance in the evening.

Day 16(July13) Depart.