JAX EXPEDITIONS LLC

Photography tour
(14 nights and 15 days)

Code: ET4

This tour is designed for photo-enthusiasts. Capture the essence of the country’s wildlife, culture, tradition, lifestyle and beautiful landscape with extreme contrasts. The tour takes you to most of the well-known attractions (Eagle valley, Orkhon fall, Khongor sand dunes, Ugii lake), as well as the least visited ones. Please note that this is not a tour guided by photography instructors like elsewhere. Rather it gives you a plenty of time to explore on your own, learn about this amazing land as much as possible through your photography and get back home with a great collection of photographed images.

Tour Itinerary

Day 1
UB city. Arrival in UB and transfer to hotel
City tour: visit to Museum of National History, Gandan monastery, Zaisan hill memorial.Overnight in hotel
Day 2
Off to the South.
Start a full day journey to Baga Gazryn Chuluu – beautiful granite rock formations (240 km from UB) in Dundgobi aimag. Stopover at Zorgol Khairkhan mountain (about 100km from UB) for lunch. Visit local nomads’ canteen. Continue to main destination. Once we reach the place there is a possibility to see a cave with an underground lake in Baga Gazriin Uul mountain (1786m above sea level) and wander around and discover the area more in depth. Overnight in ger camp
Day 3
Drive to Tsagaan Syvarga or White Stupas (230km from Baga Gazriin Chuluu) a ruin of an old temple and white limestone stupa-like formations. It is also worth-seeing the ancient rock paintings in this area. Overnight in ger camp
Day 4
Bayanzag – Flaming Cliffs (250km)
Drive to Bayanzag, (known as a Flaming Cliffs), a site famous for the remains of dinosaur and other giant animals which inhabited here about 60 million years ago. Trekking and photographing in the area where dinosaurs once roamed and see saxaul trees and other desert vegetations.Overnight at ger camp
Day 5
Eagle valley, Dungenee at Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National park (ca 50km)
Drive to the Yolyn Am, or ‘Eagle Valley’ – a wonderfully picturesque place with ice in some months, and surrounded by sheer rocky walls, forming incredible canyons. Hiking about 2 km to the narrow end of the canoyn. Visit Gobi museum. These areas are situated in the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park that encompasses the "Three Beauties of the Gobi" peaks and the most easterly points of the Altai Mountains. Overnight in tourist camp.
Day 6
Khongor Sand Dunes (200km)
Drive to Khongor Sand Dunes, Mongolia's largest sand dunes, reaching a height of 300m in some areas and majestically contrasting with the green meadows and blue mountain ranges.The sand dunes change their color from yellow to silver at dawn respectively at sunset. This color change is more noticeable from a certain distance. Climb up to the top of the sand dunes and slide down. It is fun. Walking along the river is also an alternative. Overnight in tourist camp.
Day 7
Nemegt Canyon
Head to Nemegt Canyon, the second largest canyon in Mongolia, where dinosaur fossils were found. On the way pass the Saltwater Lake, a habitat of wild ass with a saxaul forest and a geologically interesting rock formation, the Khanan Mountain. Overnight in tent
Day 8
Zulganai oasis -Zuun mod
Move to Zulganai, a beautiful oasis in the desert where Zulganai river waters the dry land and grasses grow tall enough.
Drive to Zuunmod oasis located in Bayankhongor province. Another beauty at the edge of Great Gobi. Overnight in tented camp
Day 9
Buun tsagaan Lake
Head to the Lake of Buun Tsagaan Nuur that covers 40 square kilometers and at an altitude of 1336 meters above sea level. Trek around and enjoy the wildlife of the lake. Spend a whole day watching whooper swan, wute swan, swan goose, and bar-headed goose etc. Overnight in a tent.
Day 10
Shargaljuut hot spring resort
Travel to Shargaljuut mineral hot springs across the magnificent passes of Khangai range. Take a tour to hundreds of medicinal mineral springs (up to +95°C), some of them with sulphur mud.
Day 11
Orkhon waterfall
Drive to Orkhon waterfall which cascades from an impressive height of 20 meters, and it extends for more than 100 meters from the Orkhon River. The waterfall is a great spot for bird watching and fishing. Overnight in tourist camp.
Day 12
Tuvkhun monastery - Karakorum
Drive to Tuvkhun monastery sits on the peak of Undur Shireet mountain that is located in boundary of Arkhangai and Uvurkhangai aimags. The monastery is registered by UNESCO as “The most wonderful valuable object of the world heritage” in 1996. After lunch drive to Karakorum, the symbolic ruins of the 13th century capital of the Mongol Empire. During this drive the landscape changes from semi-desert into forest steppe. Visit Erdene-Zuu, the oldest monastery, with 108 stupas, built in 1586.
Day 13
Ugii lake. Drive to Ugii lake, a beautiful lake which is a home to many different birds such as Swan Goose, White Spoonbill and Dalmatian
Day 14
Drive to UB. More city tours including visit to a cashmere factory before the evening concert of folkdance and song group
Day 15
Departure

        Tour information

    This tour can be
        tailor-made

Tour code: ET4
Distance: ~ 2450 km
Duration: 14 nights 15 days
Date: July through September
Tour style: Adventure, moderate
Transport: Minivan or 4WD cross-country vehicles
Group size: from 3 up to 15 Price: 1435€ - 1575€

Included:

● Guiding and interpreting
     service
● All food and meals
● All camping equipments as
     gas stove, cooking stuff
● All entrance fees
● Lodging (tourist camps, tent,
     hotel in city)
● Vehicles + driver and petrol

Excluded:

     ● International air fares
     ● Passport and visa costs
     ● Medical and trip insurance
     ● Airport taxes, excess
        baggage charges
     ● Telephone calls
     ● Alcoholic beverages



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