MONGOLIAN WILD-NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY TOUR /6 DAYS/
SHORT DESCRIPTION
We are sure that, this special photography tour will give you a grand pack with exciting adventures and amazing shooting. Even it is only 4 days, the landscapes are a perfect challenge to your creative photo interests. We are offering you the chance to get thousands of amazing photos in the magnificent Semi Gobi Desert. This is a great wilderness adventure that targeted landscapes with beautiful dunes and rocky mountain background, camels, and nomads.
- CATEGORY: PHOTOGRAPHY TOURS
- AVAILABLE: YEAR AROUND
- DURATION: 6 DAYS, 5 NIGHTS
- DESTINATION: CENTRAL MONGOLIA
ESSENTIALS
GUIDE
A Chinese, English or Russian speaking Mongolian guide will accompany the group at all times. The guide will be a native Mongolian person with great local knowledge who can deal with any requests and ensure that your holiday to become one of the most unforgettable experiences of your life.
TRANSPORT
This trip you have a two choice. First one is a highest level, latest model, air-conditioned private 4WD vehicles for the maximum comfort on your touring days. And second choice is Russian 4x4 Van. Also with 20 years’ experience drives.
MEALS
In Mongolia, you will be dining at fine American, European and Asian cuisine restaurants. Mutton, beef, rice and noodles form the basis of the Mongolian diet, so your meals will be based around this. However, the trail rations may include vegetables, eggs, peanut butter, cheese and sometimes yak! On some days there will be lunchboxes from our cook.
PERSONAL THINGS TO BRING WITH YOU
Warm thin layers of clothing are the best such as bring a rain jacket, gloves and hiking booth. Don’t forgot first aid kit (medicine for headache, cold, diarrhea, runny nose; bandages; any medicine prescribed for you). All your camera equipment.
TOUR PACKAGE PRICE
| Group size | Price/Per person |
| 1 pax | 1730USD |
| 2-3 pax | 1480USD |
| 4-6 pax | 1350USD |
| 7-9 pax | 1280USD |
| 10-12 pax | 1180USD |
| 13-15 pax | 1080USD |
| 16< pax | 950USD |
| No | Include service | Exclude service | Include service of Meals |
| 1 | Vehicle with a driver. | Items of personal nature | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner |
| 2 | Fuel for the trip whole time | Beverages, alcoholic drinks, bar bills, laundry | Per day 3 bottle water for per person /1,5 liter/ |
| 3 | English speaking guide | Travel and insurance | One time Mongolian traditional food /lamb with vegetables/ |
| 4 | Accommodation/Ger camps and Hotel/ | International transportation | |
| 5 | All food, during the trip and at restaurants /Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner/ | Excess baggage fee in the flight /15kg includes handbag is free of charge/ | |
| 6 | All cooking and camping gears. | Optional activities | |
| 7 | National park and border office permits (area you will go is close to China and Russia border) | Single supplement /For hotel or Ger camp/ | |
| 8 | Airport shuffle | Gratuity for the tour team | |
| 9 | Other small administration fees Basically, includes everything. | Taxi |
TOUR ITINERARY
Day 1 - Ulaanbaatar capital city of Mongolia
Pick you up our driver and guide from Chinggis Khan international airport. Drive to Your hotel. Visit local outdoor market /bazaar/, Gandan Monastery and Mongolia national museum. Evening Leisure day in Ulaanbaatar city. Over night at Hotel
| Distance | n/a |
| Route | n/a |
| Drive time | n/a |
| Accommodation | Grand Hill Hotel |
| Food | Dinner |
Day 2 - Khustai Nuruu national park
Great wildlife photography can be a result of being in the right place at the right time. Do you agree? Our first destination is Khustai National Park, to 100km east of Ulaanbaatar. Khustai National Park is one of the Mongolian national parks, well known as home to Przewalski’s horses- the last truly wild horses on earth.
| Distance | 70km |
| Route | Asphalt |
| Drive time | 1 hours |
| Accommodation | Ger camp |
| Food | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner |
Day 3 - Elsen Tasarkhai sand dunes
On our second day, heading to Elsen Tasarkhai Sand dunes, about 213 km far from Khustai National Park, it is a magnificent place to create portraits of wildlife landscape Photography. Due to Sand dunes picturesque combination of Gobi Desert, green land, and rocky mountain filled with wildlife, we advise you to use wide-range zoom lenses for “wildlife in the landscape” photos and be more creative in your image composition. No matter the time of day, the beautiful and ever-changing scene of this majestic sand dune Elsen Tasarkhai will be full of wildlife, energy, and motion.
| Distance | 210km |
| Route | Asphalt |
| Drive time | 1 hours |
| Accommodation | Ger camp |
| Food | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner |
Day 4 - Orkhon valley via Karakorum city and Erdene Zuu monastery
Within 3rd day, the next shooting spot is Orkhon Valley listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. You and your team find your own style of photography for Kharkhorin–the ancient capital city of the Mongol Empire, oldest surviving monastery Erdene-Zuu, and other historically and naturally iconic landscape locations. These hidden gems are not that far from our previous destination Elsen Tasarkhai Sand dune, it is about 80km. All these places can be good practice, composition, and exposure lighting for historical shots, architecture shots, and great landscapes with resident wildlife
| Distance | 80km |
| Route | Asphalt |
| Drive time | 1 hours |
| Accommodation | Ger camp |
| Food | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner |
Day 5 - Ugii lake and Nomadic family
We’ll also arrange and prepare everything ready for your photographs deep inside of Mongolia nomadic life and especially with a combination of your request, the interest of classic portrait, and cultural video showing the nomad’s costume and heritages which all give a real sense of their unique and unchanged lives for thousand years. Our photo spot is Ugii Lake. Overnight at Ger camp
| Distance | 240km |
| Route | Asphalt |
| Drive time | 4 hours |
| Accommodation | Ger camp |
| Food | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner |
Day 6 - Ulaanbaatar city capital city of Mongolia
In the morning after breakfast, drive to Ulaanbaatar. Arrive in Ulaanbaatar, and you will be transferred to your accommodation. End of tour.
| Distance | 330km |
| Route | Asphalt |
| Drive time | 4 hours |
| Accommodation | Hotel |
| Food | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner |
Day 7 - Home sweet home
Leave Ulaanbaatar. Our driver drop off to Chinggis Khan international airport. Thank you for visiting our country
| Distance | 70km |
| Route | Highway |
| Drive time | 1 hour |
| Accommodation | n/a |
| Food | Breakfast |
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We are sure that, this special photography tour will give you a grand pack with exciting adventures and amazing shooting. Even it is only 4 days, the landscapes are a perfect challenge to your creative photo interests.