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<p>When I met Baitei in the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia, I was meeting far more than an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>I was meeting a man whose life spanned nearly a century of change.</p>

<p>Born in 1930 in Altants&ouml;gts soum of Bayan-&Ouml;lgii Province, Baitei witnessed the final years of traditional nomadic life, the period of collectivization, the expansion of education into remote communities, the rise and fall of the socialist era, and the emergence of modern Mongolia.</p>

<p>Throughout those decades of change, one thing remained constant: his connection to the eagle hunting tradition of the Kazakh people.</p>

<p>For most of his life, Baitei was known not only as an eagle hunter but also as a respected herder and haymaker. He became a seven-time provincial champion haymaker and was later recognized nationally as a State Champion Haymaker. Yet when speaking with him, medals and titles rarely seemed important.</p>

<p>His stories almost always returned to family, eagles, and the values that guided his life.</p>

<p>More than anything else, Baitei belonged to a generation that remembered a different Altai &mdash; an Altai before tourism, before international recognition, and before eagle hunting became known to the wider world.</p>

<h2>&ldquo;My Son, Get an Eagle&rdquo;</h2>

<p>One story revealed more about Baitei than any list of achievements ever could.</p>

<p>After he married in 1949, tragedy struck the young family. Several of his children died in infancy, and he fell into deep sorrow. Seeing his son&#39;s struggle, Baitei&rsquo;s father offered a simple piece of advice:</p>

<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;My son, get an eagle.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Baitei followed that advice.</p>

<p>Years later, he still remembered the change it brought to his life.</p>

<p>After acquiring his first eagle, he found himself focused once again on daily responsibilities. Caring for the bird, traveling through the mountains, preparing for hunts, and training the eagle gave purpose and structure to his days.</p>

<p>The eagle became far more than a hunting companion.</p>

<p>It became part of his recovery.</p>

<p>Whether viewed as practical wisdom, emotional healing, or simply the power of responsibility, the advice changed the course of his life.</p>

<p>For the rest of his years, eagles remained at the center of his world.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle Hunter Baitei" src="/uploads/Ulaanhus_Bayan_olgii_baitei_hunter.png" /></p>

<h2>Not Everyone Who Carries an Eagle Is an Eagle Hunter</h2>

<p>Among the many things Baitei shared was an old saying remembered by Kazakh eagle hunters.</p>

<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;Are you an eagle hunter, or merely the man who scares the fox from its hiding place?&rdquo;</p>
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<p>The phrase may sound humorous at first, but its meaning was serious.</p>

<p>For Baitei, carrying an eagle on one&#39;s arm did not automatically make someone an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>The title had to be earned.</p>

<p>A true eagle hunter trained the bird, cared for it through every season, understood its behavior, hunted successfully with it, and accepted responsibility for its well-being.</p>

<p>Without that commitment, a person might participate in a hunt, but he had not yet earned the respect associated with the title of eagle hunter.</p>

<p>The saying reflected Baitei&rsquo;s philosophy toward life itself.</p>

<p>Respect was earned through work, patience, and dedication.</p>

<p>Never through appearance alone.</p>

<p>As he often reminded younger hunters, tradition survives not because people wear the clothing or carry the eagle, but because they accept the responsibility that comes with both.</p>

<p>For Baitei, eagle hunting was never about image.</p>

<p>It was about commitment.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Ulaanhus_Bayan_olgii_baitei_hunters.png" /></p>

<h2>When Eagle Hunters Came to Ulaanbaatar</h2>

<p>One of Baitei&rsquo;s most remarkable memories dated back to 1950.</p>

<p>That year, Bayan-&Ouml;lgii Province celebrated its tenth anniversary, and a group of eagle hunters, including Baitei, traveled to Ulaanbaatar to participate in the national celebrations.</p>

<p>For many people in the capital, it was among the first opportunities to see Kazakh eagle hunters and their golden eagles in person.</p>

<p>During the event, the hunters demonstrated traditional eagle hunting techniques before large crowds. Live foxes were released, and visitors watched as the eagles displayed the skills that had been passed down through generations in the Altai Mountains.</p>

<p>Today, such demonstrations may seem familiar in an age of festivals, tourism, and international photography expeditions.</p>

<p>But in 1950, the event carried a different meaning.</p>

<p>It represented a tradition from Mongolia&rsquo;s far western frontier being introduced to the nation as a whole.</p>

<p>For Baitei, the memory was never about personal recognition.</p>

<p>Instead, he remembered it as a moment when the eagle hunting tradition itself received recognition and respect beyond the valleys and mountains where it had long survived.</p>

<p>It was a reminder that the culture of the Altai was also part of the story of Mongolia.</p>

<h2>Twenty-Five Eagles Across Sixty-Four Years</h2>

<p>During his lifetime, Baitei trained and hunted with approximately twenty-five golden eagles.</p>

<p>He spent more than sixty-four years as an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>The numbers alone are impressive, but they reveal only part of the story.</p>

<p>Each eagle required years of care, patience, and dedication. Long before a hunt could take place, a hunter needed to understand the bird&rsquo;s temperament, build trust, and develop a partnership that could not be rushed.</p>

<p>Every hunting season brought new challenges.</p>

<p>Winter conditions in the Altai Mountains were often harsh. Hunters traveled across remote valleys and mountain slopes, relying not only on the skill of the eagle but also on their own endurance and experience.</p>

<p>Over the decades, Baitei witnessed changing times, changing communities, and changing ways of life.</p>

<p>Yet the relationship between hunter and eagle remained remarkably constant.</p>

<p>For him, eagle hunting was never simply about catching foxes.</p>

<p>It was about maintaining a connection between people, animals, landscape, and tradition.</p>

<p>Each eagle eventually returned to the wild, bringing an end to a relationship that had often lasted for many years.</p>

<p>Then the cycle would begin again.</p>

<p>Few eagle hunters anywhere in the world can claim such a lifetime of experience.</p>

<p>For more than six decades, Baitei remained part of a tradition that linked generations of hunters to the mountains, valleys, and open skies of the Altai.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunter_Baitei_with_songs_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<h2>An Altai Before Festivals</h2>

<p>When Baitei began hunting with eagles, the Altai was a very different place.</p>

<p>There were no international visitors, no organized eagle festivals, and no photographers arriving from around the world in search of dramatic images and cultural stories.</p>

<p>The tradition survived because families continued to practice it.</p>

<p>Knowledge passed from fathers to sons.</p>

<p>Young hunters learned through observation, patience, and years of experience in the mountains. Skills were earned slowly and often required a lifetime to master.</p>

<p>The Altai that Baitei remembered was quieter and far more isolated than the one visitors encounter today.</p>

<p>Roads were fewer.</p>

<p>Communication was limited.</p>

<p>Many valleys remained connected only by seasonal migration routes and local knowledge.</p>

<p>Yet the values at the heart of the tradition remain familiar even today.</p>

<p>Respect for elders.</p>

<p>Commitment to family.</p>

<p>Responsibility toward animals.</p>

<p>Pride in one&#39;s homeland.</p>

<p>For Baitei, these values mattered more than recognition or fame.</p>

<p>They formed the foundation of everyday life in the Altai long before the outside world became aware of eagle hunting.</p>

<p>His memories offer a rare glimpse into a period when the tradition existed not as a cultural attraction, but simply as a way of life.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunter_summer_place_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunter_summer_place_Baitei_family_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>This article is based on interviews conducted during the research and preparation of the book <em>EAGLE HUNTERS (БҮРГЭД)</em> by photographer and author Batzaya Choijiljav.</p>

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<p>With its motto, <em>&ldquo;Promoting the cultural heritage of humanity &ndash; the art of eagle falconry traditions</em>,&rdquo; the festival is dedicated to preserving this extraordinary heritage while welcoming visitors to witness it in its authentic cultural setting.</p>

<p>What makes the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival truly special is the experience beyond the competitions. Visitors can welcome Kazakh nomadic families as they arrive with their livestock during the<strong> seasonal&nbsp;migration</strong>, and even take part in assembling a Kazakh ger (yurt). These moments offer a rare chance to experience the living culture of Mongolia&rsquo;s nomadic communities.</p>

<p>The festival is also known as one of the most <strong>photography-friendly cultural events in Mongolia</strong>. As a company specialized in photography expeditions, <strong>Ayan Travel </strong>organizes the festival experience with photographers in mind. Guests have the opportunity to observe and photograph eagle hunters, golden eagles, and nomadic life from close range,&nbsp;moments that are rarely accessible at other festivals.</p>

<p>Join our <strong>Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival Tour</strong> to experience the nomadic lifestyle and eagle-hunting culture while celebrating one of Mongolia&rsquo;s most fascinating living traditions together with the local team behind the festival.&nbsp;</p>
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<p data-end="1060" data-start="770">Beyond the festival, the tour includes private shooting sessions with eagle hunters in Sagsai and around Tolbo Lake. These sessions give you more control over light, background, and composition &mdash; ideal for portraits, horseback scenes, and storytelling images without the pressure of crowds. This is a small group photography tour designed around field conditions. We plan for early morning and late afternoon shooting, work with natural light, and allow enough time in each location to build a strong and varied portfolio.</p>
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			'body' => '<p style="text-align: justify;">Shamanism is the oldest religious practice in Mongolia and centers on beliefs and rituals associated with a shaman, a man, or a woman regarded as having access to the &ldquo;spirit world&rdquo;.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Shamanism is faith without books. All teaching and instruction have been given orally, passed from shaman to shaman over the centuries, and its traditions learned by heart. Mongolian shamans enter an ecstatic trance state in which the shaman is empowered to engage with the spirits I order to protect and heal members of the community, to guide souls, and cure illnesses.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The shaman might wear a headdress to resemble a bird, with the tail of a pheasant and the body costume of a fish. Drums are used to help the shaman enter the trance-like state, as chanting begins and the shaman &ldquo;transcends &ldquo;into another world while the body dances, swirls, or totters with jerky movements. Shamanism went underground during the former communist period but has been revived recently.</p>
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		'body' => '<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Old_Eagle_hunter_Baitei_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>When I met Baitei in the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia, I was meeting far more than an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>I was meeting a man whose life spanned nearly a century of change.</p>

<p>Born in 1930 in Altants&ouml;gts soum of Bayan-&Ouml;lgii Province, Baitei witnessed the final years of traditional nomadic life, the period of collectivization, the expansion of education into remote communities, the rise and fall of the socialist era, and the emergence of modern Mongolia.</p>

<p>Throughout those decades of change, one thing remained constant: his connection to the eagle hunting tradition of the Kazakh people.</p>

<p>For most of his life, Baitei was known not only as an eagle hunter but also as a respected herder and haymaker. He became a seven-time provincial champion haymaker and was later recognized nationally as a State Champion Haymaker. Yet when speaking with him, medals and titles rarely seemed important.</p>

<p>His stories almost always returned to family, eagles, and the values that guided his life.</p>

<p>More than anything else, Baitei belonged to a generation that remembered a different Altai &mdash; an Altai before tourism, before international recognition, and before eagle hunting became known to the wider world.</p>

<h2>&ldquo;My Son, Get an Eagle&rdquo;</h2>

<p>One story revealed more about Baitei than any list of achievements ever could.</p>

<p>After he married in 1949, tragedy struck the young family. Several of his children died in infancy, and he fell into deep sorrow. Seeing his son&#39;s struggle, Baitei&rsquo;s father offered a simple piece of advice:</p>

<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;My son, get an eagle.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Baitei followed that advice.</p>

<p>Years later, he still remembered the change it brought to his life.</p>

<p>After acquiring his first eagle, he found himself focused once again on daily responsibilities. Caring for the bird, traveling through the mountains, preparing for hunts, and training the eagle gave purpose and structure to his days.</p>

<p>The eagle became far more than a hunting companion.</p>

<p>It became part of his recovery.</p>

<p>Whether viewed as practical wisdom, emotional healing, or simply the power of responsibility, the advice changed the course of his life.</p>

<p>For the rest of his years, eagles remained at the center of his world.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle Hunter Baitei" src="/uploads/Ulaanhus_Bayan_olgii_baitei_hunter.png" /></p>

<h2>Not Everyone Who Carries an Eagle Is an Eagle Hunter</h2>

<p>Among the many things Baitei shared was an old saying remembered by Kazakh eagle hunters.</p>

<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;Are you an eagle hunter, or merely the man who scares the fox from its hiding place?&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>

<p>The phrase may sound humorous at first, but its meaning was serious.</p>

<p>For Baitei, carrying an eagle on one&#39;s arm did not automatically make someone an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>The title had to be earned.</p>

<p>A true eagle hunter trained the bird, cared for it through every season, understood its behavior, hunted successfully with it, and accepted responsibility for its well-being.</p>

<p>Without that commitment, a person might participate in a hunt, but he had not yet earned the respect associated with the title of eagle hunter.</p>

<p>The saying reflected Baitei&rsquo;s philosophy toward life itself.</p>

<p>Respect was earned through work, patience, and dedication.</p>

<p>Never through appearance alone.</p>

<p>As he often reminded younger hunters, tradition survives not because people wear the clothing or carry the eagle, but because they accept the responsibility that comes with both.</p>

<p>For Baitei, eagle hunting was never about image.</p>

<p>It was about commitment.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Ulaanhus_Bayan_olgii_baitei_hunters.png" /></p>

<h2>When Eagle Hunters Came to Ulaanbaatar</h2>

<p>One of Baitei&rsquo;s most remarkable memories dated back to 1950.</p>

<p>That year, Bayan-&Ouml;lgii Province celebrated its tenth anniversary, and a group of eagle hunters, including Baitei, traveled to Ulaanbaatar to participate in the national celebrations.</p>

<p>For many people in the capital, it was among the first opportunities to see Kazakh eagle hunters and their golden eagles in person.</p>

<p>During the event, the hunters demonstrated traditional eagle hunting techniques before large crowds. Live foxes were released, and visitors watched as the eagles displayed the skills that had been passed down through generations in the Altai Mountains.</p>

<p>Today, such demonstrations may seem familiar in an age of festivals, tourism, and international photography expeditions.</p>

<p>But in 1950, the event carried a different meaning.</p>

<p>It represented a tradition from Mongolia&rsquo;s far western frontier being introduced to the nation as a whole.</p>

<p>For Baitei, the memory was never about personal recognition.</p>

<p>Instead, he remembered it as a moment when the eagle hunting tradition itself received recognition and respect beyond the valleys and mountains where it had long survived.</p>

<p>It was a reminder that the culture of the Altai was also part of the story of Mongolia.</p>

<h2>Twenty-Five Eagles Across Sixty-Four Years</h2>

<p>During his lifetime, Baitei trained and hunted with approximately twenty-five golden eagles.</p>

<p>He spent more than sixty-four years as an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>The numbers alone are impressive, but they reveal only part of the story.</p>

<p>Each eagle required years of care, patience, and dedication. Long before a hunt could take place, a hunter needed to understand the bird&rsquo;s temperament, build trust, and develop a partnership that could not be rushed.</p>

<p>Every hunting season brought new challenges.</p>

<p>Winter conditions in the Altai Mountains were often harsh. Hunters traveled across remote valleys and mountain slopes, relying not only on the skill of the eagle but also on their own endurance and experience.</p>

<p>Over the decades, Baitei witnessed changing times, changing communities, and changing ways of life.</p>

<p>Yet the relationship between hunter and eagle remained remarkably constant.</p>

<p>For him, eagle hunting was never simply about catching foxes.</p>

<p>It was about maintaining a connection between people, animals, landscape, and tradition.</p>

<p>Each eagle eventually returned to the wild, bringing an end to a relationship that had often lasted for many years.</p>

<p>Then the cycle would begin again.</p>

<p>Few eagle hunters anywhere in the world can claim such a lifetime of experience.</p>

<p>For more than six decades, Baitei remained part of a tradition that linked generations of hunters to the mountains, valleys, and open skies of the Altai.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunter_Baitei_with_songs_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<h2>An Altai Before Festivals</h2>

<p>When Baitei began hunting with eagles, the Altai was a very different place.</p>

<p>There were no international visitors, no organized eagle festivals, and no photographers arriving from around the world in search of dramatic images and cultural stories.</p>

<p>The tradition survived because families continued to practice it.</p>

<p>Knowledge passed from fathers to sons.</p>

<p>Young hunters learned through observation, patience, and years of experience in the mountains. Skills were earned slowly and often required a lifetime to master.</p>

<p>The Altai that Baitei remembered was quieter and far more isolated than the one visitors encounter today.</p>

<p>Roads were fewer.</p>

<p>Communication was limited.</p>

<p>Many valleys remained connected only by seasonal migration routes and local knowledge.</p>

<p>Yet the values at the heart of the tradition remain familiar even today.</p>

<p>Respect for elders.</p>

<p>Commitment to family.</p>

<p>Responsibility toward animals.</p>

<p>Pride in one&#39;s homeland.</p>

<p>For Baitei, these values mattered more than recognition or fame.</p>

<p>They formed the foundation of everyday life in the Altai long before the outside world became aware of eagle hunting.</p>

<p>His memories offer a rare glimpse into a period when the tradition existed not as a cultural attraction, but simply as a way of life.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunter_summer_place_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunter_summer_place_Baitei_family_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>This article is based on interviews conducted during the research and preparation of the book <em>EAGLE HUNTERS (БҮРГЭД)</em> by photographer and author Batzaya Choijiljav.</p>

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			'body' => '<h3><strong>What does Naadam mean?</strong></h3>

<p>&nbsp;According to the book named &ldquo;TRAVEL&rdquo;, published from DK, Mongolian Naadam Festival is highlighted the only must see attraction for tourists in July. So, why is this Festival so attractive for both locals and travelers? Naadam is the festival of &ldquo;National Pride&rdquo; and it is the only one of its kind; it is a sophisticated and eloquent expression of nomadic culture, it is the honored celebration of a national independence, and it is an outstanding combination of arts and sports.</p>

<p>Here are the 10 interesting facts about the festival you must know before&nbsp;planning the trip.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>1. When&nbsp;is the Naadam Festival held?&nbsp;</strong></h4>

<p>Naadam Festival is Olympic Games of Mongols and held in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-events-in-july-in-mongolia" target="_blank">the most enjoyable and festive month in the country.</a> The main celebrations will be held annually on&nbsp;11-13 July at Central Stadium and Khui Doloon Khudag in the country&rsquo;s capital, Ulaanbaatar. But you have opportunity to enjoy the festival more closely with locals in&nbsp;other parts of the country hold their own as well.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia naadam festival horse race" src="/uploads/Local_Naadam_festival_horses.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>2. WHY &ldquo;THREE GAMES OF MEN&rdquo;</strong></h4>

<p>Weird, but inspiring &lsquo;Mongolia&rsquo;s Three Games of Men&rsquo;-Archery, Horse Racing and Wrestling are the main games. The origin of Naadam Festival is closely related to the history and culture of the country. It was one of the main practice of war. Before and after major battles, the three sports of men- wrestling, horseracing and archery- were exercised as an organized event, which later adopted its present name- Naadam. It is not only sports game including art, tricks, tactics but also ethic and cultural performance such as singing, dance, traditional costume, parade etc.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Mongolia-Naadam-Festival.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Mongolians revere certain parts of bones of their livestock and use them in religious rites, plays and traditional games.</p>

<p>In recent years Knuckle Bone Shooting- a team game getting popular and it became &ldquo;Fourth&rdquo; main sports of the festival. Teams of six to eight players flick thirty domino-like marble tablets on a smooth wooden surface towards a target of sheep knuckle-bones.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>3. WHAT IS MONGOLIAN NATIONAL&nbsp;WRESTLING?</strong></h4>

<p>&nbsp;Wrestling is a unique combination of traditional sports manner and cultural elements of eagle dance, long song etc. It also has thousands of years of historical development in Mongolia.</p>

<p>Comparing to other wrestling competitions it has several specialty such as no time, space and weigh limit, 512 wrestlers are typically compete each other by tournament and this number increased to 1024 on the occasion of important anniversaries. Wrestlers must have strong discipline, moral and respectfulness to elders, high titled wrestler and audiences.</p>

<p>There are four main parts in the Mongolian Wrestling costumes including Four-sided hat, shoulder vest &amp; snug shorts (Zodog &amp; Shuudag), Cloak and traditional boots for using men only.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/wrestlingLocal_Naadam_festival4.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>4. MONGOLIAN HORSE RACING</strong></h4>

<p>A horse role and culture is the biggest tradition of the Mongols in the daily and national life. Mongolians are said that &ldquo;Nation born on horseback&rdquo; and every child who grows in countryside learn to ride a horse when they are 3 to 5 years.</p>

<p>See the longest horse race ridden by children might not imagined.</p>

<p>Actually horse racing is scientifically sport and it races except winter time, when grass grows. To train a horse for race keeping under a special regimen at least one month before race and horse jockeys are usefully between 5 and 13 years of age and lead their horse across the steppes, over various distances between 10 and 26 km depending on horse age.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Horse_racing_Local_Naadam_festival.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Soyolon- Five-years-old horse racing is most popular for locals and according to ancient Mongolian myth that says it is possible to charge its spirit and fortune by getting in touch with the whirled up dust and sweat of horse after racing.</p>

<p>Children sing a special song named GIINGOO, a mantra of GOD of HORSE- Khayankhyarvaa before and after racing.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Naadam_Horse_racing_game1.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Please notice that Horse Racing field is located 35 km from Ulaanbaatar named Khui Doloon Khudag, on the way you go to Khustai NP or Karakorum.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>5. WHAT IS MONGOLIAN ARCHERY?</strong></h4>

<p>Due to its traditional lifestyle, ancient people used their version of bows and arrows for hunting and in later it started to be used as a weapon during the battle. During the Naadam Festival, all male, female and child archers who wears traditional costumes, compete in three categories: Khalkh, Buriad and Uriankhai archery, which have differences in the bows and arrows used, as well as the distance of the target. Archery is symbol of strength, vision, patience, sense and concentration. You can enjoy it outside of stadium, before opening ceremony starts, due to it starts early in the morning.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Archery.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>6. HOW THE OPENING CEREMONY GOES?</strong></h4>

<p>The opening ceremony starts at 11 A.M after &ldquo;Nine White Banners&rdquo; are carried by honored guard from Government Palace to be settled in the middle of Stadium and then the speech of President of Mongolia. Naadam Festival is very colorful event where people revive their Nomadic spirit, history and heritage. Opening ceremony has a great chance to enjoy and photograph&nbsp;Mongolian culture, art performances, song and dance, colorful parade, traditional costumes and miracles of Mongolian military force etc.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Naadam_openning.jpg" /></p>

<p>Everybody wears the most colorful and attractive traditional costumes with many different styles, like actors wear their best in Red Carpet of Oscars.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Naadam_opening_ceremony3.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Photographers must buy a photo permission from Festival Organizer and it is allowed to photographing and video graphing in white lane. Therefore, please prepare zoom-lenses to capture more authentic photos.</p>

<p>After the ceremony ends Wrestling tournament will start. Most of the tourists enjoy opening ceremony and go to horse racing place.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>7. A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE OTHER CULTURAL EVENTS AT A SAME TIME</strong></h4>

<p>There are few cultural events will run under the Hospitable Ulaanbaatar Program between 10 and 15 of July annually. In the afternoon of 10<sup>th</sup> of July you will fully enjoy Mongolian Traditional Costume Festival- Deeltei Mongol, &ldquo;Ceremony of Nine White Banners&rdquo; and in the evening one of the Mongolian best operas &ldquo;Uchirtai Gurvan Tolgoi-Three Dramatic Character&rdquo; will be held in open air theatre at the central square.</p>

<p>In the night of 11<sup>th</sup> of July &ldquo;Night of Ulaanbaatar&rdquo;, Mongolian Dance Festival including modern and traditional dance show (12 Jul), Morin Khuur- Horse-headed Fiddle Festival (13 Jul), Ulaanbaatar Swing Night- Jaaz show (14 Jul)- the open air shows will be held in Sukhbaatar Square. Enjoy.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Ulaanbaatar_Naadam_.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p style="clear: both">&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>8. WHAT SURROUNDS CENTRAL STADIUM?</strong></h4>

<p>From a long time ago Naadam was only fest which gathering local people same time in same place. In the rest of the time nomadic people had very busy to visit each other and they only take care of their livestock, which is not easy job. When they gathered in same place they also do a barter, sell good and talk a gossip etc. Nowadays it is almost same in the area and surroundings of the Central Stadium is too crowd of people, bazaar, entertainment, lottery and food and beverage kiosks like a fair. For instance, if you forget to take your umbrella or sunglass you can buy it from local bazaar as cheap as you can.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Naadam_festival_Around.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;">TASTE TRADITIONAL MONGOLIAN FOODs &amp; DRINKs</h4>

<p>Of course you will ask what is the main dish of Naadam Festival? Definitely &ldquo;round&rdquo; KHUUSHUUR, fried dumpling is the main dish and once you taste it, you will never forget the taste and next time eager to eat it. At the stadium, good Khuushuur making kiosk has a queue and they make it quickly in front of you.</p>

<p>Drinking fermented mare&rsquo;s milk- Airag also known as Kumis is the highlight of the Festival for locals. Because Airag appears only in summer time from June to September. Please don&rsquo;t miss a chance to drink this alcoholic beverage nearly 5% alcoholic content.</p>

<p>HOW DOES IT TASTE? I want to say JUST DRINK IT.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>9. JOIN LOCAL NAADAM FESTIVAL OUTSIDE OF ULAANBAATAR</strong></h4>

<p>Local Naadam Festival is more attractive for travelers, because of truly authentic, enthusiastic, no dramatic and allows you to experience first-hand by visiting locals. Here you can photograph and talk with locals without any prohibition. Mongolian traditional Ger dwelling used to be as restaurants in countryside. Most of the people ride a horse and run through the vast steppe without any traffic rule.</p>

<p>The festival is like a small fair. Local people come from all the province to either participate in the festivals to sell food and toys, or to run small carnival games for children and youngsters.</p>

<p>If you don&rsquo;t like too touristic things LOCAL NAADAM is the best choice.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Local_naadam_festival.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals " src="/uploads/Local_Naadam_festival1.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>10. HOW TO BOOK HOTEL AND TICKETS OF NAADAM FESTIVAL?</strong></h4>

<p>July is the PEAK SEASON of tourists. While it is peak, the price of accommodation is doubled (desk rate price) and must book it at least 6 months before. Centrally located accommodation even guesthouses are fully booked in this time. Tour operator and local agents will be your reliable partner in the field.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/NaadamStadium.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Central stadium has 18 sections and four of them use for tourists. Nowadays booking a NAADAM TICKET by online is impossible. Ticket price for tourist section with roof is 25$, but you need to buy both opening and closing ceremony tickets. It will be sold a week before it runs and it is not easy to buy individually even for Mongolians.</p>

<p>Therefore, tour companies are best choice to book and arrange both accommodations, tickets and tour throughout Mongolia.</p>

<p>Ayan travel team is expert for arranging tours of Naadam festival which was named as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO in 2010, as soon as you&rsquo;re different interest, expectation of tour such as discovery and photography tours.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Here is the link might help you to plan your trip to Mongolia during the truly authentic Festival of Nomads- Naadam.</p>

<p>Suggested tour: <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-naadam-festival-2018-tour" target="_blank"><strong>Mongolia Naadam Festival - 2019 Tour-11 days</strong></a></p>

<p>If you are passionate with photography we suggest following tours: <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/classic-mongolia-photography-tour"><strong>Classic Mongolia Photography tour-14 days</strong></a></p>

<p>Or if you have limited time to travel in Mongolia and need to experience and photograph local and city Naadam Festival on the same trip, then we recommend : <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/naadam-to-naadam-guided-photo-tour" target="_blank">Naadam to Naadam Guided Photo Tour&nbsp;</a></strong></p>

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<p>&nbsp;Altai Tavan Bogd National Park is an impressive natural reserve and is famous for its 5 highest peaks&nbsp;and largest Potanin glacier, lying on more than 4,000m above the sea level, the highest&nbsp;and westernmost region of Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The park has not only natural wonders but also it has cultural and historical wonders including thousands of ancient rock carvings, listed on UNESCO World Heritage Site, mysterious stone men and burial mounds and uncommon nomadic cultures of Kazakh and Tuva people.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>There are also beautiful hidden lakes Khoton and Khurgan, worshipped Shiveet Khairkhan Mountain, crystal clear rivers and rare wildlife.</p>

<p>Travel Mongolia and take a trip to Altai Tavan Bogd National Park, in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/western" target="_blank">western Mongolia </a>can be a great adventure. If you take a trip to Mongolia&nbsp;you should not miss this amazing cultural, historical and natural rich National Park.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Here are the ten reasons to visit Altai Tavan Bogd National Park of Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>1.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Mongolian Altai Mountains&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p>&nbsp;Mongolian Altai is the largest mountain system in Mongolia. Beginning in the mountain group of Tavan Bogd /5 saints/, one of the elevated parts of the country, it stretches south-east and consists of a number of ridges close to each other and average altitude of the ridges is 3,000-3,500meters.</p>

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<p>The highest point is Mt.Khuiten/4374m/ means &ldquo;cold&rdquo; and another peak is Nairamdal means friendship, where Russian, Chinese and Mongolian borders meet. Other peaks are Malchin/Herder/, Burged/Eagle/ and Ulgii/ Land/. Altai Tavan Bogd National Park is the highest and remotest park of Mongolia, established in 1996 and covers 6,362 square kilometers.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>2.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Largest lakes in Altai Tavan Bogd National Park</strong></span></h3>

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<p>Altai Tavan Bogd National Park contains numerous&nbsp;beautiful lakes. The largest Lakes are <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/khoton-lake" target="_blank">Khoton</a>, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/khurgan-lake" target="_blank">Khurgan</a> and Dayan. Khoton and Khurgan Lakes are connected with wide channel and surrounded by snow caped mountains and beautiful scenery.</p>

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<p>There is an island covered by woods in the middle of Khoton Lake and the lake is also source of Khovd River which drains the Altai Mountain. These&nbsp;two lakes are home to several species of fishes, some of them are&nbsp;only in western Mongolian basin. Also, many local nomads&nbsp;live&nbsp;around the lakes where you can visit and experience their culture.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>3.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Glaciers of the Park&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p>There are more than 10 glaciers in Altai Tavan Bogd Mountains and 3 of them can be seen when you are heading to the park. The largest glacier is Potanin, 14km long and named Grigory Potanin, Russian explorer who first discovered this glacier. Potanin Glacier is decreasing in size in last years as other glaciers around the world. You can hike on the glacier with experienced local guide and take a hike and enjoy the beautiful peaceful scenery.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>4.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rock carvings of Mongolian Altai Mountains &nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p>The most complete and best preserved visual record of human prehistoric representation is existing in Mongolian Altai Mountains, inscribed on UNESCO Heritage Sites as <strong><a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1382" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">&ldquo;The Petroglyphic Complex of the Mongolian Altai&rdquo;.</span></a></strong></p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd shiveet_khairkhan Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>About 10,000 petroglyphs and number of ancient human statues/stone man/ are close to <strong><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/UNESCO's-newest-World-Heritage-Sites-Petroglyphs-Complexes-of-the-Mongolian-Altai-Mongolia." target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Shiveet Khairkhan Mountain</span></a><span style="color:#800000;"> </span></strong>which show us the thousands years of ancient tribal history and culture dated back from Neolith to Bronze age and the meaning&nbsp;and expressiveness of this rock art might be transition from ancient hunters, warriors and societies to livestock breeding and the beginning of the classic nomadism in Mongolia.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-tour-mongolia" target="_blank"><img alt="sagsai golden eagle festival mongolia" src="/uploads/Sagsai-Golden-Eagle-Festival-Tour-Mongolia-By-Ayan-Travel.jpg" /></a></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>5.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Standing rocks and&nbsp;stone men are also popular&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p>There are about 700 standing rock and stone men exist in the world and more than 500 of them are located in Mongolia. Near the Shiveet Khairkhan Mountain, there is a complex of Turkic stone men dating back to 6-8th century.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>6.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Visit Kazakh and Tuva Nomads in the park</strong></span></h3>

<p>Altai Tavan Bogd National Park is located in ethnically diverse region of western Mongolia. Kazakh, Tuva and Uriankhai people have been living here for thousands of years and still keeping their nomadic heritages and lifestyle. Their culture and religion are diverse too.</p>

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<p>Tuva people have worshipped Shiveet Khairkhan Moutnain since they had settled in Mongolian Altai and it means that they protect this region including its wildlife and historical/cultural heritage sites for hundreds of years which gives us the chance for discovering our ancestors&rsquo; way of living and beautiful wild nature.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Don&rsquo;t miss to visit in Kazakh family, their hospitality is amazing like other Mongolian nomads.Kazakh people believe in some strange sayings that &ldquo;the family cries and they might be unlucky when guests not to visit their home&rdquo; so Kazakh family offer their last meals to their guests, even they don&rsquo;t have any food for them. Every Kazakh family owns Dombor-the national musical instruments and the <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/golden-eagle-the-hunter-bird-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">golden eagles for prey</span></a></strong>. You can experience their unique culture, lifestyle and amazing hospitality.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>7.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Eagle Hunters and Golden Eagle Festival&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p>Altai Tavan Bogd national Park is home to golden eagles. Hunting with golden eagles is one of the most important traditions of Mongolian Kazakhs. They train their eagles at its young age and hunt with eagles in winters. In the beginning of October, in Bayan-Ulgii province,<strong><span style="color:#800000;"><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/why-you-should-visit-sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-in-mongolia" target="_blank"> </a>T</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolian-golden-eagle-festival-and-eagle-hunters" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">he Golden Eagle Festival</span></a><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/why-you-should-visit-sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> </span></a></strong>is held for promoting Kazakh&rsquo;s ancient tradition to their next generation and to the world. On this fascinating festival, you will see and enjoy uncommon cultural activities and have great opportunity to take stunning photos.</p>

<p>Here you can enjoy the <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/incredible-photos-from-spring-golden-eagle-festival" target="_blank">most impressive golden eagle and eagle hunters&#39; photos</a> by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Ch.BatzayaPhotography/" target="_blank">Batzaya Photography</a>.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>8.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Fauna of the Altai&nbsp;Mountain National Park of Mongolia</strong></span></h3>

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<p>The National Park is habitat of large mammals, including,&nbsp;red deer, brown bears, gray wolves foxes and marmots. Endangered snow lynx, <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/photography-of-snow-leopards-in-mongolias-wild-west" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Snow Leopard,</span></a></strong> <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/wildlife-photography-discover-mongolian-wild-side" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Argali wild sheep </span></a></strong>and impressive birds,&nbsp;golden eagles, Eurasian eagle owl, snowcock, and several species of falcons. Also, thousands of migratory birds, pass through in spring and fall, including Eurasian spoonbill, relict, and <strong><a href="https://www.birdmongolia.com/bird-blog/bird-mongolia-shows-life-of-siberian-cranes-in-photos" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">6 species of crane</span></a></strong>, gull and Black Kite hawk. Mongolian Altai is one of the best destination for fishers, Potanin Osman, Mongolian Grayling, found only in western Mongolia and other several species of fish are famous Taimen, Lenok Trout are in the rivers and lakes of the park.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>9.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Flora of the National Park&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p>Mongolian Altai Mountain the eco region is the habitant of many endemic and endangered species of plants including, Rhodiola rosea Juniperus communis and Altai onion /Allum Altaicum pell/ some of them are used for medicine and food by locals. Half of the flora of Siberia is found&nbsp;to be here. Generally the flora of the park has poorly studied so it is great destination to scientists.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>10.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Western Mongolia - Outdoor Activities and Photographic Destination</strong></span></h3>

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<p>Mongolia is a true destination of photography&nbsp;and outdoor adventures. If you are a photographer looking for new, exotic place to photograph, then Mongolian Altai Mountain is the right destination for you. Check out<strong><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-photo-spots-in-western-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">the best photo spots in western region of Mongolia</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">.</span></strong> You can&nbsp;hike, climb, trek, camp and horseride are popular activities in this awe inspiring region. Landscapes are diverse too, including desert steppe, dense forests, peaceful meadows, crystal clear lakes, Mountain Rivers and glacier and snow caped mountain adventures await you.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;You can trek anywhere in the park and most people hike or ride horses and camels. It is good way to explore surrounding area of the park. Riding and package carrying horses and camels can be rented through both local tour operators and families. Fishing inside the park is great with 5 species of fish, some of them are&nbsp;only found in the Western Mongolian Basin. The lakes and rivers contain Taimen, Lenok Trout, Osman, Grayling, and Pike. Fly fishing during the summer is attracts sportsmen from all over the world and ice fishing is popular among locals during the winter. Fishing inside the park is permitted from June 15 to April 15.</p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/Climbing Altai Mountains of Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/stunning-photos-of-mongolian-altai-mountains" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Climb the highest peaks of Mongolia</span></a></strong>. To climb the Khuiten Peak needs world class skills and climb the Malchin peak is easier, so you have opportunity to enjoy the view from the roof of Mongolia.</p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/riding tour in Altai Mountains of Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>Horseback riding is one of the best way to explore deep in this large park. Riding through the diverse landscapes like locals and visit the highlighted sites of the park. There are more adventures await you which could not be expressed by the words. Ayan Travel (<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com" target="_blank">toursmongolia.com</a>) the local adventure tour operator arranges all kind of tours to the park. Just come and experience!&nbsp;</p>

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			'body' => '<p>Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival is held annually in western Mongolia and is a 2-day festival that annually runs 17 to 18th of September, co-organized by eagle hunters, local officials, and Mongolian tour operator company Ayan Travel.<font color="#37474f" face="Roboto Mono, monospace"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95);"> </span></font>The festival covers with Kazakh cultural activities, eagle hunting competitions, meeting ups with famous eagle hunters, and special photographic workshops in majestic Altai Mountain ranges at the pleasant time of the year. This year the festival will be held between 2026-09-17&nbsp;and&nbsp;2026-09-18&nbsp;in Sagsai Village, Bayan-Ulgii Province, West Mongolia. Here are the top ten reasons why you should visit the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>1. Golden Eagle Festival Is Getting the World&rsquo;s Most Trendy Event</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>According to world-class publications, there are some new words started to be seen The Golden Eagle Festival, Eagle Hunting in Mongolia, Kazakh Eagle Hunters, Ancient Tradition Is Still Alive in Mongolia &hellip;etc. That is true, appreciate journalists from around the world to promote this incredible human culture which nestles in the remote Altai mountains in Mongolia.</p>

<p><img alt="sagsai-eagle-festival" src="/uploads/sagsai-eagle-hunters-mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>Since the soul-touching Film made about wonderful teenage eagle huntress Aisholpan, the hidden tradition of eagle hunting has been captured the world&rsquo;s attention. She has been practiced eagle hunting with her father. In 2014, she participated the eagle hunting competition against the adult, experienced eagle hunters during the annual Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia. So the film, the destination, the&nbsp;young generation, and the tradition of eagle hunting is all about the epic story of human culture and nature which truly steal your heart and can be the reason you should visit the Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia.</p>

<p><img alt="sagsai eagle festival mongolia opening parade" src="/uploads/sagsai-festival-mongolia-opening-parade.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px; " /></p>

<p><img alt="the eagle huntress aisholpan" src="/uploads/aisholpan.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>2. Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival Offers Chance To Know About Kazakh Culture </strong></span></span></h2>

<p>Once you decided to travel to west Mongolia, especially visit eagle hunters, one of the most important things to do is experiencing the nomadic lifestyle of the local people and Kazakh culture.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="nomadic migration at  sagsai" src="/uploads/sagsai-festival-culture-day-nomadic-migration.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong>On the first day</strong> of the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival you will totally immerse yourself into the authentic Kazakh culture by visiting hunters&rsquo; families, the most hospitable people on earth, following nomadic migration, learning their customs, experiencing in ger/yurt assembling, tasting local cuisine.</p>

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<p><img alt="eagle-hunter-family-in-west-mongolia" src="/uploads/sagsai-festiva-visit-kazakh-family.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<p>All visitors are invited to have warm talks with popular hunters, listening to epic stories, and speeches in the afternoon. As it is a cultural event, folk music performance is included in the program, the perfect chance to see them in their national embroidered costumes.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Sagsai_Eagle_festival_concert.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" /></p>

<p><img alt="kazakh folk performance" src="/uploads/Eagle_festival_folk_performance.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>3. Explore The World Of Eagle Hunting During The Festival </strong></span></span></h2>

<p>Hunting with eagles has been practiced by Kazakh and Kyrgyz people for thousands of years in central Asia. Today in Mongolia, this is still living among the Kazakhs in its ancient form.</p>

<p><img alt="eagle-hunters-sagsai-festival" src="/uploads/eagle-hunitng-mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>The giant golden eagle soaring over the prey, and the hunter or Berkutchi /eagle hunter I Kazakh language/ calling his eagle while galloping on horseback to the prey, the hunter eagle swooping down and landed on the prey hand with her full speed.</p>

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<p><img alt="eagle-prey" src="/uploads/hunting-eagle-prey.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<p>This is the most amazing moment to show us how the eagle and the man have built a special, spiritual relationship during their training period. It is said that there are five methods of hunting with eagles used among Kazakh falconry. You will learn all about the eagle hunting, its traditions and see thrilling competitions on the second day of the festival.</p>

<p><img alt="eagle hunter at sagsai eagle festival" src="/uploads/Eagle-Hunter-in-Mongolia-Sagsai.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="tug of war at eagle festival" src="/uploads/eagle-hunting-festoval-competition.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px; " /></p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>4. Photography Workshops At Sagsai Eagle Festival</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>We are helping our clients to &ldquo;Be the eye to the world&rdquo;, the words make us motivated as a photo tour organizing team. The 2-day festival is dedicated to all levels of photographers and filmmakers. The Golden Eagle Festival is so photogenic and very rich in unique objects to capture.</p>

<p><img alt="photography tour to sagsai festival" src="/uploads/sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-mongolia-photography-workshops.jpg" /></p>

<p>The hunter eagles, elegantly geared horses, traditionally embroidery dressed locals, festival parade, thrilling games on horseback, cultural ceremonies, performances, eagle hunting actions, ethnic portraits, and natural beauties are all in front of you.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="portrait photography at sagsai eagle festival" src="/uploads/eagle-hunter-portrait.jpg" /></p>

<p>Special photo sessions are included in the program and if you need more professional service please just tell us and let us make your lens be the eye to the world. Photography workshops are held by talented, professional photographer Batzaya Choijiljav, who has been arranging and taking photographic adventures throughout Mongolia for more than a decade.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>5. Why Sagsai Is An Ideal Place For The Eagle Festival</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>Sagsai soum, or village is a perfect habitat of giant eagles, wildlife, and nomadic people. The most eagle hunters of west Mongolia, are living in this small village, so we can call this place as a Hot Spot of Eagle Hunting Tradition in Mongolia. The Eagle Festival takes place in 35km from the Ulgii town, in a convenient area of Sagsai (river) valley surrounded with magnificent mountain backdrops. Special thanks to the local officials of Sagsai village for the cooperation with organizing the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival and it helps us to make our festival more local and tourism-friendly and well-organized.</p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>6. September Is Pleasant Time For Travelling To Eagle Hunters In Mongolia</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>When nature turns into its most&nbsp;beautiful color, September is considered to be a suitable period to travel in Mongolia. The temperature is milder than October and a bit cooler than warm August. Pleasant days are good for festive attenders, and the clear nights are perfect to shoot night sky photography. It is also an important period for the eagle training to prepare them for winter hunting. So September is the best time to travel to the eagle hunting festival in Mongolia.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>7. Not Too Touristy Festival of Mongolia Gives Us Great Freedom</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>If you are a crowd escaper, creative artist, or passionate photographer and need to produce eye-catching works during your travels, or need to have uncommon images of the eagle festival then Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival is the right attraction for you. All the participants are so pleasant to allow us to meet, to have an interview, and to photograph them, the competitions take place right in front of you, so just focus on your passionate subjects.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>8. Other Activities Around The Sagsai Festival</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>As it is festive, the trade fair,&nbsp;souvenir stands, coffee corner, night events other services, or activities are available during the festival. Tourists are invited to attend our special arranged activities, which would be a surprise for now.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="sagsai festival" src="/uploads/sagsai-eagle-festival-trade-fair.jpg" style=" float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" /></p>

<p><img alt="eagle festival in sagsai" src="/uploads/sagsai-eagle-festival-other-activities.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>9. Contribution To Local People&rsquo;s Livelihood of Altai Region</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>The contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in the remote Altai region of Mongolia. As an organizer of the festival, we have made some economic and social contribution to the local people, especially for young kids. For our clients, this is not the only contribution to the local hunters&rsquo; livelihood but also to educate, to inspire international audiences to promote this exotic heritage through their lenses. Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival offers some special sessions for your project if you would like to create outstanding impacts on the society.</p>

<p><img alt="contribute to local people at sagsai festival" src="/uploads/contribution-to-eagle-hunters.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" /></p>

<p><img alt="contribution to local society at sagsai" src="/uploads/contribute-local-people-at-sagsai-festival.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>10. Ayan Travel Experienced Travel Company In Mongolia</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>For the last decade, we have been successfully arranging adventure, event-based, and photography tours throughout Mongolia, under the lead of Batzaya Choijiljav, the active traveler, talented photographer, and verified photo contributor to the world-class agencies. Based on our previous travel experiences, we organize Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival&nbsp;with the help of local eagle hunters, official places of Mongolian tourism organizations, and our valuable partners and clients.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="ayan travel team at sagsai festival" src="/uploads/Ayan_travel_group_at_eagle_festival.jpg" /></p>

<p>For the basic tour operating services,&nbsp;such as meals, accommodation, transportation, travel, photography gear organizing, and keeping all visitors&#39; safety, are arranged by our travel specialists and local partners. Our well-experienced tour guides, photography crew are here to make your trip wonderful. The Team at Ayan Travel try our best to make your trip successfully completed.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;">A Picture Says A Thousand Words, But A Video Shows A Thousand Pictures.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;">The atmosphere of <strong>Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival&nbsp;</strong></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;">Here we suggest<span style="color:#024748;"> </span><u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-tour-mongolia"><span style="color:#0099ff;">Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival Tour 2026</span></a><font color="#800000">.&nbsp;</font></u></p>

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			'body' => '<h2>Our recommendation for a two week Mongolia itinerary</h2>

<p>Are you looking for recommendation for Travel Mongolia? Are you asking for someone&rsquo;s help or suggestions right now? Haven&#39;t got much time but you want to take a Mongolia trip?&nbsp;<br />
You&#39;ll get a different answer from anyone you ask about the must-sees and must-dos in Mongolia tour. So it can be tough to make sure you get the most from your tour Mongolia so we&#39;ve pooled our knowledge and put together the ultimate 2-week Mongolia trip.&nbsp;However, we share some of our tours to put into perspective how you need to go about planning a trip to Mongolia with just two weeks at your disposal. That way you&rsquo;ll get a better feel for a place and get to know the best things to do while your visits Mongolia. Understand that you will never have time to see EVERYTHING. And be okay with it.</p>

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<p><img alt="2 weeks tour in Mongolia" src="/uploads/2 week in Mongolia trip.jpg" /></p>

<p><em>Spending your time in Mongolia for two weeks...</em></p>

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How should I&nbsp;spend 2 weeks in Mongolia?</h2>

<p>For all tour in Mongolia, experiencing in nomadic life is of utmost importance if you want explore real culture and adventure travel. In Mongolia it means you&rsquo;ll spend less time getting inside and more time exploring unchanged and untouched of wildlife and tradition and culture of nomadic herders, also wandering ancient history sites and enjoying natural beauty that make Mongolia world-famous.&nbsp;<br />
Trip from Ulaanbaatar to the countryside, be prepared to experience a wide range of vibes and experiences. We wouldn&rsquo;t go from the west to east and back. That&rsquo;s the mentality you have to have with travelling in Mongolia. You can choose your Mongolia tour destinations. Travel Mongolia within 2 week is not enough, not long time, however we recommend you the perfect 2 weeks&nbsp;tour in Mongolia with us.<br />
If you&rsquo;re a<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/tips-for-the-first-time-travelers-in-mongolia" target="_blank">&nbsp;first-time visitor to Mongolia,</a>&nbsp;you need to put some thought into your Mongolia travel planning. Moreover highlight of your 2 week Mongolia is<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/the-top-5-must-see-events-in-mongolia" target="_blank">&nbsp;festivals and events</a>&nbsp;of the regions, which attracts lots of interests, you decide to travel.</p>

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<p><img alt="Naadam festival opening ceremony " src="/uploads/Naadam openning ceremony.jpg" /></p>

<p><em>&nbsp;Naadam Festival - National Holiday of Mongolia. Opening ceremony in the central stadium of Ulaanbaatar city.&nbsp;</em></p>

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<h2><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">The Perfect 14 Day Mongolia Itinerary&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></h2>

<h3><strong>Ulaanbaatar Day 1-2</strong></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Your tour will start from UB, capital city of Mongolia. It&rsquo;s a heck of an introduction to the country though, so prepare yourself.<br />
So, what to do in Ulaanbaatar? Well, A lot!&nbsp;<br />
At the top of your travel list should be Gandan Monastery and the Bogd Khaan Museum. This is the number one religious sights of Mongolia, and for good reason. Gandan Monastery, which houses the Migijid Janraisag statue with 26.5 meter high which is tallest indoor statue in the world, is generally regarded as the most important Buddhist temple in the country.<br />
There are many more temples, monasteries and museums in Ulaanbaatar, so you won&rsquo;t be short of temples and Buddha statues.&nbsp;<br />
Some notable highlights include Zaisan Square (Soviet Union Memorial) and you can walk 300 meters on staircase with more than 600 steps and reach the Memorial and also view UB city from top of the mountain.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Mongolia ulaanbaatar " src="/uploads/Ulaanbaatar_city.jpg" /></p>

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And, of course, there&rsquo;s more to Ulaanbaatar than monasteries. Ulaanbaatar has fantastic nightlife and shopping, with some of the best restaurants and bars in city.&nbsp;<br />
Another attraction in UB city is the Chinggis square &ndash;heart of the city, large colonnade monument of Chinggis khaan, Ogedei, Khubilai khan dominates the square&rsquo;s north side directly in front of government palace.<br />
Other than that, our advice for UB is to spend some time getting acclimatized, experiencing culture of the people, wandering Ger-streets, checking out the traditional music concerts, and immersing yourself in night life of the city.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Mongolian capital city Ulaanbaatar" src="/uploads/Ulaanbaatar_capital_city.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Sukhbaatar Square in the center of Ulaanbaatar city&nbsp;</em></p>

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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Gobi Desert and&nbsp;ancient capital Karakorum&nbsp;Day 3-7</strong></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolian-gobi-through-the-lens-of-photographer" target="_blank">Travel to Gobi desert Mongolia</a>&nbsp;start by flight to Dalanzadgad and drive to Yol Valley and explore Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National park.&nbsp;Then you will go to Khongor Sand Dunes and recommend you sand skating, the most famous and touristy section of the Gobi desert.<br />
Next stops will be Bayanzag &ndash;cemetery of dinosaurs and Ongi Monastery. This mysterious desert offers you to explore prehistoric sites such as dinosaur fossils and ancient sea bed remains. Experience nomadic lifestyle, meet local people, try camel riding, hike on sand dunes, take stunning pictures and collect beautiful memory while you are travelling.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Gobi desert tours mongolia" src="/uploads/hongor_sand_dune.jpg" /></p>

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After that you will head to Orkhon Waterfall. Full check out most important&nbsp; travel destinations including Ruins of Chinggis Khan&lsquo;s ancient capital Karakorum and the first established monastery of Mongolia-Erdene-zuu and many more and its Museum and Tuvkhun Monastery. It is one of the most important cultural regions in the world and was recognized by the UNESCO world heritage and Turkic exploring. Combinations of natural beauty and historical sites are wonderful out there in province of Arkhangai.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Erdenezuu monastery Mongolia" src="/uploads/erdenezuu_monastery1.jpg" /></p>

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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Khovsgol Lake Day 8-12</strong></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Next main Mongolia tour attraction heads from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/arkhangai" target="_blank">Arkhangai</a>&nbsp;to Khuvsgul lake. There you&rsquo;ll find the camp houses on shore of fresh water lake of Khuvsgul, where many foreigners base themselves long term thanks to the nice view, mysterious reindeer herder&lsquo;s way of living and ancient shaman rituals. There&rsquo;s a fantastic exploring of untouched life of reindeer herders, arguably the most mysterious ethnic group in the world, a gorgeous Taiga nature beauty on the shore of lake, and it is national park of Khuvsgul.&nbsp;<br />
Northern part of Mongolia is the land of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/I-Documented-Mongolia%E2%80%99s-Mystical-Tsaatan-Reindeer-People" target="_blank">Tsaatan people</a>, reindeer herders and beautiful Khuvsgul Lake National Park.&nbsp;Visit Tsaatan minority of Mongolia, experience their primitive life style, meet authentic shamans to get knowledge of them and ride reindeer through the Taiga.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Khovsgol lake Mongolia" src="/uploads/Khovsgol_lake.jpg" /></p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Khovsgol lake and darkhad valley" src="/uploads/darkhad_valley.jpg" /></p>

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<strong>&nbsp;Ending your 2 week Itinerary Day 13-14</strong></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Back in UB.<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/popular-weekend-trips-around-ulaanbaatar" target="_blank">&nbsp;Experiencing the&nbsp;best tour attractions near UB</a>&nbsp;&ndash; enjoying Chinggis Khaan Equestrian statue near UB city and where it has historical statues and museums. Shopping and cultural performance and have some free day for yourself.<br />
Transfer to the Airport and Departure.<br />
What are your thoughts on this itinerary or do you have any questions about it?&nbsp;<br />
I&rsquo;d LOVE to hear if you use this itinerary on your visit!</p>

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<h2><span style="font-size:28px;">Need a longer&nbsp;Itinerary? Consider&nbsp;Mongolian Travel Destinations&nbsp;</span></h2>

<p style="text-align: justify;">In case the above 2 week Mongolia travel itinerary doesn&rsquo;t check all your boxes, or you were looking for a longer itinerary (or you just want to try and pack more in!), here are some more of our Mongolia travel destinations for you to think about adding to your itinerary.</p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>2 week trip to Western Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p><u>Why western Mongolia?</u></p>

<p>Because it is homeland of Eagle hunters and Khazakhs and also includes thousands of ancient rock carvings which is listed on UNESCO World heritage site and also Mongolian Altai mountains.</p>

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<p><u>Must see places</u>&nbsp;&ndash;Mongolian Altai Mountains, Altai Tavan Bogd national park, ancient rock carvings, Mysterious stone men and burial mounds, Golden eagle festival and Mongolian Kazakhs.</p>

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<p><u>Things to do</u>&nbsp;&ndash; reaching western part of the nation, climbing the mountain, trekking, sightseeing ,walking and photographing in national park, horse riding, visiting local nomadic families, seeing and experiencing&nbsp; eagle hunters and exploring local towns.</p>

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<p><u>How to get there&nbsp;</u>&ndash; domestic flight, off road minivan or jeep and horse.</p>

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<p><img alt="Altai mountains " src="/uploads/Altai_mountain_tuva_family.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Eagle hunting tour in Altai Mountain Mongolia" src="/uploads/Altai_mountain_eagle hunting.jpg" /></p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/adventures-in-altai-tavan-bogd-mountains-tour" target="_blank">Adventures in Altai Tavan bogd Mountain tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/golden-eagle-festival-mongol-altai-mountains-photographic-expedition" target="_blank">Golden Eagle Festival and Mongol Altai Mountains Photographic Expedition</a></p>

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<p><strong>Related Articles and Topics</strong></p>

<p>-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/western" target="_blank">Mongolian travel destination, Western Mongolia</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/10-reasons-to-visit-mongolian-altai-mountains" target="_blank">10 Reasons to visit Mongolian Atai&nbsp;Mountains</a></p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>2 week trip in Central Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p><u>Why central Mongolia?</u></p>

<p>Because it is one of the most important cultural regions in the world and was recognized by the UNESCO world heritage and Turkic exploring. Combinations of natural beauty and historical sites are wonderful out there. There you can have chance to see wild animals such as Takhi-wild horse, Argalin wild sheep, Red deer, Siberian marmot and many species of birds and more.</p>

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<p><u>Must see places</u>&nbsp;&ndash; Khustai national park, Kharkhorin, Erdenezuu monastery, Tsenkher hot spa, Khorgiin Togoo volcano and Terkhiin tsagaan lake, &nbsp;Tuvkhun monastery, Orkhon waterfall, Manzushir monastery, Gorkhi-Terelj national park, Ugii lake, Orkhon valley,Khuisiin naiman nuur,Chuluut river valley, Tsonjinboldog,Khugnu-Tarni&nbsp; national park,Shankh monastery, Taikhar rock, Choir town, Suvraga khairkhan mountain,13<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;century complex and Tsetserleg town Arkhangai province.</p>

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<p><u>Things to do&nbsp;</u>&ndash;horse trekking, visit historical sites and national parks, monasteries, fishing, climbing and many more</p>

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<p><u>How to get there &ndash;</u>&nbsp;offroad minivan or jeep for your choice</p>

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<p><img alt="Central Mongolia Tours" src="/uploads/Central_mongolian_Kharkhorin.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia bird watching" src="/uploads/Central_mongolia_birds.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Live with mongolian nomads" src="/uploads/Central_mongolia_Family.jpg" /></p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp; - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/horse-riding-in-legendary-orkhon-valley-tour" target="_blank">Horse riding in legendary Orkhon valley Tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp; -<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/gobi-desert-and-orkhon-valley-tour" target="_blank"> Gobi desert-Orkhon valley tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp; - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/fishing-in-central-mongolia-tour" target="_blank">Fishing in Central Mongolia tour</a></p>

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<p><strong>Related News and Topics</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/central" target="_blank"> Mongolian travel destinations, Central Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-photo-spots-of-central-mongolia" target="_blank">Best Photo spots of Central Mongolia</a></p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>2 week trip in Eastern Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p><u>Why Eastern Mongolia?</u></p>

<p>Because it is birthplace of Chinggis Khan, man of the millennium and untouched and unexplored destination of Eastern Mongolia. In the east, there are many small lakes attracted by birds. There are also sand dunes of Gobi in Sukhbaatar province.</p>

<p>There you can</p>

<p><u>Must see places&nbsp;</u>&ndash;Burkhan Khaldun Mountain,Gun galuut nature reserve ,Baldan Bereeven Monastery, Khangal lake, Uglugch wall, Airag ord, Altan Ovoo, Shiliin Bogd Volcano, Taliin agui, Menen steppe-Eastern Mongolian steppe, Blue lake, Khar lake, Dariganga tribe,&nbsp; Khurgiin Khundii</p>

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<p><u>Things to do&nbsp;</u>&ndash; Visiting Chinggis Khaan&rsquo;s birth land, Natural parks and more, bird watching, hiking on sand dunes, horse riding, fishing, exploring tradition of nomadic life of Eastern Mongolia, especially Dariganga ethnic tribe and driving through Menen steppe.</p>

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<p><u>How to get there &ndash;</u>&nbsp;offroad minivan or jeep</p>

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<p><img alt="Eastern Mongolia tour" src="/uploads/eastern_mongolia_nomadic_life.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Eastern mongolia horse riding tour" src="/uploads/eastern_mongolia_horses.jpg" /></p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp; -<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/eastern-mongolia-tour" target="_blank"> Eastern Mongolia tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp; -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/discovering-homeland-of-chinggis-khaan-tour" target="_blank">Discovering Homeland of Chinggis Khaan tour</a></p>

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<p><strong>Related News and Articles</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp; <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/eastern" target="_blank">Mongolian travel destinations, Eastern Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/activities-and-things-to-do-in-eastern-mongolia" target="_blank">Activities and Things to Do in Eastern Mongolia</a></p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>2 week trip in Southern Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p><u>Why southern Mongolia?</u></p>

<p>Because it is home to Dinosaur fossils and exploring ancient sea bed remains and mysterious Mongolian Gobi desert. There are rare thrives such as Mongolian bactrial camel, Mongolian antelope, Black tailed gazelle, Argal wild sheep ,Ibex ,Snow leapord and many more.</p>

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<p><u>Must see places</u>&nbsp;&ndash; Ikh gazriin chulu, Zorgol Khairkhan, Baga gazriin chuluu, Gobi desert, Yol valley, Gobi gurvan saikhan national park, Bayan Zag, Khermen tsav, Ongi monastery, Khongor sand dune, Ikh Bogd Mountain, Orog Lake, Shargalzuut hot spa, Sainshand city and Dalanzadgad</p>

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<p><u>Things to do there</u>- experiencing famous Mongolian Gobi desert, camel riding through&nbsp;&nbsp; , taking pictures, sightseeing and hiking on wonderful creation of sand dunes and national parks in Gobi.</p>

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<p><u>How to get there</u>- by domestic flight, off road minivan or jeep</p>

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<p><img alt="Southern Mongolia" src="/uploads/Southern_mongolian stepp.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Monasteries Mongolia" src="/uploads/Southern_mongolian_monasteries.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Gobi_desert_mongolia " src="/uploads/Southern_mongolian_desert.jpg" /></p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;-<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/caravaning-through-desert-wonders-tour" target="_blank"> Caravanning through Desert Wonders Tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/classic-mongolia-photography-tour" target="_blank">Classic Mongolia Photography Tour</a></p>

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<p><strong>Related News</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/southern" target="_blank">Mongolian tourist destination, Southern Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolian-gobi-through-the-lens-of-photographer" target="_blank">Mongolian Gobi Through the Lens of Photographer</a></p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>2 week trip in Northern Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p><u>Why northern Mongolia?</u></p>

<p>Because it is land of Tsaatan people, reindeer herders and beautiful Khuvsgul lake national park. There you can see many historical sites and burial monuments, many big rivers and lakes and true wild nature.</p>

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<p><u>Must see places</u>&nbsp;&ndash;Amarbaysgalant monastery, Khuvsgul lake, Darkhad valley, Uushig Deer stone, Uran togoo volcano,T engis river, Delger rivers, Darkhad tribe, Erdenet city and Darkhan city. The Khubsgul Lake is inhabited by moose, reindeer, argali, Siberian ibex, red deer, many species of bird and fish.</p>

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<p><u>Things to do</u>&nbsp;&ndash; trekking mountains, exploring and visiting unique tradition of reindeer herders, their unchanged way of lives,</p>

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<p><u>How to get there</u>&nbsp;&ndash;by domestic flight, off road minivan or jeep.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Khovsgol lake mongolia" src="/uploads/Northern mongolia Khovsgol lake.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 514px;" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Tsaatan people at northern mongolia" src="/uploads/Northern mongolia tsaatan people.jpg" /></p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/pioneering-in-khuvsgul-taiga-wilderness-trekking-tour" target="_blank">Pioneering in Khuvsgul Taiga wilderness trekking tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/photo-tour-to-mystical-reindeer-herders-in-mongolia" target="_blank">Photo Tour to Mystical Reindeer Herders in Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Related Topics and News</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/northern" target="_blank"> Mongolian travel destinations, Northern Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/my-epic-journey-to-taiga-mountains-of-northern-mongolia" target="_blank">My Epic Journey to Taiga Mountains of Northern Mongolia</a></p>

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<h2><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Two -&nbsp;Week Mongolia Tour Itinerary</span></span></h2>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Many travelers disregard the actual size of Mongolia, and its landscape until they arrive and end up regretting the choices they made in the planning stage and decided to come back travel in Mongolia. So, considering Mongolia is so vast, the problem becomes how to travel in a 2 weeks of time, and where to visit in Mongolia?</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Ayan travel-team of local travel experts organizing discovery and adventure oriented tours for group, incentives and individuals. We offer 2 week trip program that cover best travel places, must see attractions&nbsp;of Mongolia.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">What are you waiting for? Take the next step and get your Mongolia trip&nbsp;planning by Ayan travel. Let Ayan travel team be as your Mongolia Travel guide. We always try provide a chance to encounter authentic nomadic life and adventures activities that Mongolia has to offer proudly.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tailormade" target="_blank">Be directly connect to our tailor made programs if you seek 2 week Mongolia tour with special interest</a>.</strong></p>

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Congratulations that you decide and intend to travel to the remotest, density populated, exotic and country of last remaining nomads. This was my dream to visit this beautiful country. In the city, people will allow foreigner a&nbsp;very wide margin, and many Mongolians don&rsquo;t strictly follow all the rules either.&nbsp; Every province and ethnic groups have different traditions. So it is better to read or ask from your guide and local team.&nbsp;</p>

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Here are &quot;The 10 Tips&nbsp;for the First Time Travelers to Mongolia&quot;&nbsp;</h2>

<h3><br />
1. Expectation VS Reality&nbsp;</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mongolians are nomads. The main accommodation for tourist is &ldquo;Ger camp&rdquo;, the traditional dwelling of the Mongols. I expected that Mongolia&nbsp;is the only country of nomadic people, wide steppes and offers not too many modern comforts for travelers. In facts,&nbsp;for instance, we stayed in tourist ger camp where we could feel good enough comfort. But not all camps are good like that. The felt cover of the Ger dwelling smells naturally during the rainy days. Please try to understand it is their traditional, long-lasting accommodation. I advise you prepare yourself if you travel in Mongolia for a multi-day trip.&nbsp;</p>

<p>-<span style="color:#800000;"> </span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/where-to-stay-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Where to stay in Mongolia</span></a></p>

<h3>2. Mongolian visa process</h3>

<p>Do you know about the visa of Mongolia? Check out the visa-free countries&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.consul.mn/eng/02visae.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">here</span></a></u>. If you are not a nationality from visa-free countries it has several options.&nbsp;<br />
First please check whether it has Mongolian embassy or consulate in your country? If yes, please go there and apply for your visa. If no please find the second option. It has a chance to get a visa at the airport. For this option, the tour operator company&rsquo;s invitation is required. The process will be 2 weeks to 2 months.&nbsp;<br />
Finally, I recommend you to choose your right partner in Mongolia</p>

<p>- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/ultimate-checklist-for-travel-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">10 things you need to </span></a><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/ultimate-checklist-for-travel-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">know-Traveler&#39;s</span></a><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/ultimate-checklist-for-travel-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> Checklist&nbsp;</span></a></p>

<p><img alt="tips for travel mongolia " src="/uploads/how to travel to mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h3>3. Mongolian weather&nbsp;</h3>

<p>The climate in Mongolia is unpredictable. The temperature difference between day and night is extreme, especially in the Gobi, the Southern Part of Mongolia. The northern and western part of Mongolia is getting&nbsp;colder from the end of August. So, if you are traveling in shoulder season in Mongolia, pack your warm garments for traveling.&nbsp;</p>

<p>-&nbsp;<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-period-to-travel-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Best Time to Visit Mongolia</span></a></p>

<p><img alt="mongolia weather " src="/uploads/mongolia weather.jpg" /></p>

<h3>4. Meals in Mongolia</h3>

<p>Are you vegan, vegetarian or need gluten-free food in Mongolia? Actually, in the city of Mongolia-Ulaanbaatar has restaurants more than 50 countries meals, and ger camps in the countryside can do those kinds of foods according to your special request as soon as you pre-book it. If you choose a tented camping tour this will be quite hard, when you don&rsquo;t have experienced cook.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="what to eat in mongolia " src="/uploads/what to eat in mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h3>5. Rules in the Ger&nbsp;</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">It is incredible, even you&rsquo;re not pre-arrangement you can visit nomadic families and they hospitalized you from the bottom of their heart. When you enter the ger never step on the threshold (Bosgo), and watch out your head to butt a lintel or door jamb.&nbsp;<br />
Middle and north side of the ger is an important part of the family. NO garbage, litter is ever thrown into the fire such as onionskin etc.&nbsp;<br />
The left side of the ger is female&rsquo;s and the right side is man&rsquo;s side. Northside is a sacred and holy area such as divinity.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolian ger photos " src="/uploads/mongolia traditional dwelling.jpg" /></p>

<h3>6. Timing in Mongolia</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Synonymous to &ldquo;Island time&rdquo;. It used to have only morning and evening time when Mongolians didn&#39;t have a watch. Sunray inside the ger/yurt/ was used&nbsp;both as a&nbsp;sun clock&nbsp;and a calendar. Generally, elders are still using&nbsp;this timing today.&nbsp;People are less aware of time here and locals are the very relaxed attitude about it. Say your time with extra and reserves to your local team.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolian ger photos " src="/uploads/ger mongolian yurts.jpg" /></p>

<h3>7. Bring cash in the countryside</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Please prefer Mongolian currency-Tugrik. By the way, during the national holidays, they have 3-5 days of rest and no bank and no currency exchange are working. In this case, it is better to change at the airport. Otherwise, the bank or exchange has a better rate. And Mongolian countryside is cash-based society and ATM in a small town might have no cash even it is the tourist peak season. Also, it has a risk of no electricity in the whole soums or towns, it can happen anytime in any place. No electricity means none of the business goes normally.&nbsp;</p>

<h3>8. Small gifts to the children of the countryside</h3>

<p>Kids are always curious and bring with you a small gift for children. My advice would be to bring them something they don&rsquo;t have stationary, books, puzzles, but sweets and toys are just as fine. If you like to take pictures of them, both of the kids and adults appreciate some gifts, to be taken their photos.&nbsp;</p>

<p>- <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/what-to-pack-for-a-trip-to-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">What to Pack for Mongolia Trip&nbsp;</span></a></p>

<p><img alt="nomads kids mongolia photos " src="/uploads/nomad kids mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h3>9. Tipping for staff</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">First-time travelers always ask about the amount of tips for their local staffs.&nbsp;<br />
Though by definition a tip is never legally required, it is recommended when you are on tour. This is not spoiling the market or running hospitality, it is simply being fair. Tips will vary depending on the length and complexity of the trip, the number of staff on the trip and the number of clients on the trip. Generally, groups like to meet together before the end of the tour to discuss how much they would like to tip each staff member based on their individual trek experience. Tipping in hotels and restaurants is up to the individual, 10% never goes wrong here.</p>

<h3>10. Find Mongolian Tour Company</h3>

<p>Finally, I advise you to choose a local tour company that offers a reasonable price and good service. So how to find a good local tour operator in Mongolia? Consider your travel purpose, budget and&nbsp;experience of the local company.&nbsp;For me, I searched on the internet and then filtered them by my travel interest.&nbsp;There are similar agencies found on google and I sent email them and then compared their responses, experiences, reliability and specialties.&nbsp;&nbsp;For me,&nbsp;I chose <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">this company</span></a> because I prefer adventure and photography specialist.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="travel agency in mongolia " src="/uploads/best travel agency in mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>I hope this advice may helpful for you and your Mongolia Trip would be great even if you are a first timer in Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
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			'body' => '<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Old_Eagle_hunter_Baitei_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>When I met Baitei in the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia, I was meeting far more than an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>I was meeting a man whose life spanned nearly a century of change.</p>

<p>Born in 1930 in Altants&ouml;gts soum of Bayan-&Ouml;lgii Province, Baitei witnessed the final years of traditional nomadic life, the period of collectivization, the expansion of education into remote communities, the rise and fall of the socialist era, and the emergence of modern Mongolia.</p>

<p>Throughout those decades of change, one thing remained constant: his connection to the eagle hunting tradition of the Kazakh people.</p>

<p>For most of his life, Baitei was known not only as an eagle hunter but also as a respected herder and haymaker. He became a seven-time provincial champion haymaker and was later recognized nationally as a State Champion Haymaker. Yet when speaking with him, medals and titles rarely seemed important.</p>

<p>His stories almost always returned to family, eagles, and the values that guided his life.</p>

<p>More than anything else, Baitei belonged to a generation that remembered a different Altai &mdash; an Altai before tourism, before international recognition, and before eagle hunting became known to the wider world.</p>

<h2>&ldquo;My Son, Get an Eagle&rdquo;</h2>

<p>One story revealed more about Baitei than any list of achievements ever could.</p>

<p>After he married in 1949, tragedy struck the young family. Several of his children died in infancy, and he fell into deep sorrow. Seeing his son&#39;s struggle, Baitei&rsquo;s father offered a simple piece of advice:</p>

<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;My son, get an eagle.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Baitei followed that advice.</p>

<p>Years later, he still remembered the change it brought to his life.</p>

<p>After acquiring his first eagle, he found himself focused once again on daily responsibilities. Caring for the bird, traveling through the mountains, preparing for hunts, and training the eagle gave purpose and structure to his days.</p>

<p>The eagle became far more than a hunting companion.</p>

<p>It became part of his recovery.</p>

<p>Whether viewed as practical wisdom, emotional healing, or simply the power of responsibility, the advice changed the course of his life.</p>

<p>For the rest of his years, eagles remained at the center of his world.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle Hunter Baitei" src="/uploads/Ulaanhus_Bayan_olgii_baitei_hunter.png" /></p>

<h2>Not Everyone Who Carries an Eagle Is an Eagle Hunter</h2>

<p>Among the many things Baitei shared was an old saying remembered by Kazakh eagle hunters.</p>

<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;Are you an eagle hunter, or merely the man who scares the fox from its hiding place?&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>

<p>The phrase may sound humorous at first, but its meaning was serious.</p>

<p>For Baitei, carrying an eagle on one&#39;s arm did not automatically make someone an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>The title had to be earned.</p>

<p>A true eagle hunter trained the bird, cared for it through every season, understood its behavior, hunted successfully with it, and accepted responsibility for its well-being.</p>

<p>Without that commitment, a person might participate in a hunt, but he had not yet earned the respect associated with the title of eagle hunter.</p>

<p>The saying reflected Baitei&rsquo;s philosophy toward life itself.</p>

<p>Respect was earned through work, patience, and dedication.</p>

<p>Never through appearance alone.</p>

<p>As he often reminded younger hunters, tradition survives not because people wear the clothing or carry the eagle, but because they accept the responsibility that comes with both.</p>

<p>For Baitei, eagle hunting was never about image.</p>

<p>It was about commitment.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Ulaanhus_Bayan_olgii_baitei_hunters.png" /></p>

<h2>When Eagle Hunters Came to Ulaanbaatar</h2>

<p>One of Baitei&rsquo;s most remarkable memories dated back to 1950.</p>

<p>That year, Bayan-&Ouml;lgii Province celebrated its tenth anniversary, and a group of eagle hunters, including Baitei, traveled to Ulaanbaatar to participate in the national celebrations.</p>

<p>For many people in the capital, it was among the first opportunities to see Kazakh eagle hunters and their golden eagles in person.</p>

<p>During the event, the hunters demonstrated traditional eagle hunting techniques before large crowds. Live foxes were released, and visitors watched as the eagles displayed the skills that had been passed down through generations in the Altai Mountains.</p>

<p>Today, such demonstrations may seem familiar in an age of festivals, tourism, and international photography expeditions.</p>

<p>But in 1950, the event carried a different meaning.</p>

<p>It represented a tradition from Mongolia&rsquo;s far western frontier being introduced to the nation as a whole.</p>

<p>For Baitei, the memory was never about personal recognition.</p>

<p>Instead, he remembered it as a moment when the eagle hunting tradition itself received recognition and respect beyond the valleys and mountains where it had long survived.</p>

<p>It was a reminder that the culture of the Altai was also part of the story of Mongolia.</p>

<h2>Twenty-Five Eagles Across Sixty-Four Years</h2>

<p>During his lifetime, Baitei trained and hunted with approximately twenty-five golden eagles.</p>

<p>He spent more than sixty-four years as an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>The numbers alone are impressive, but they reveal only part of the story.</p>

<p>Each eagle required years of care, patience, and dedication. Long before a hunt could take place, a hunter needed to understand the bird&rsquo;s temperament, build trust, and develop a partnership that could not be rushed.</p>

<p>Every hunting season brought new challenges.</p>

<p>Winter conditions in the Altai Mountains were often harsh. Hunters traveled across remote valleys and mountain slopes, relying not only on the skill of the eagle but also on their own endurance and experience.</p>

<p>Over the decades, Baitei witnessed changing times, changing communities, and changing ways of life.</p>

<p>Yet the relationship between hunter and eagle remained remarkably constant.</p>

<p>For him, eagle hunting was never simply about catching foxes.</p>

<p>It was about maintaining a connection between people, animals, landscape, and tradition.</p>

<p>Each eagle eventually returned to the wild, bringing an end to a relationship that had often lasted for many years.</p>

<p>Then the cycle would begin again.</p>

<p>Few eagle hunters anywhere in the world can claim such a lifetime of experience.</p>

<p>For more than six decades, Baitei remained part of a tradition that linked generations of hunters to the mountains, valleys, and open skies of the Altai.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunter_Baitei_with_songs_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<h2>An Altai Before Festivals</h2>

<p>When Baitei began hunting with eagles, the Altai was a very different place.</p>

<p>There were no international visitors, no organized eagle festivals, and no photographers arriving from around the world in search of dramatic images and cultural stories.</p>

<p>The tradition survived because families continued to practice it.</p>

<p>Knowledge passed from fathers to sons.</p>

<p>Young hunters learned through observation, patience, and years of experience in the mountains. Skills were earned slowly and often required a lifetime to master.</p>

<p>The Altai that Baitei remembered was quieter and far more isolated than the one visitors encounter today.</p>

<p>Roads were fewer.</p>

<p>Communication was limited.</p>

<p>Many valleys remained connected only by seasonal migration routes and local knowledge.</p>

<p>Yet the values at the heart of the tradition remain familiar even today.</p>

<p>Respect for elders.</p>

<p>Commitment to family.</p>

<p>Responsibility toward animals.</p>

<p>Pride in one&#39;s homeland.</p>

<p>For Baitei, these values mattered more than recognition or fame.</p>

<p>They formed the foundation of everyday life in the Altai long before the outside world became aware of eagle hunting.</p>

<p>His memories offer a rare glimpse into a period when the tradition existed not as a cultural attraction, but simply as a way of life.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunter_summer_place_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunter_summer_place_Baitei_family_Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>This article is based on interviews conducted during the research and preparation of the book <em>EAGLE HUNTERS (БҮРГЭД)</em> by photographer and author Batzaya Choijiljav.</p>

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<p>Visitors who travel to Mongolia&#39;s Altai Mountains are often drawn by the region&#39;s spectacular landscapes and the opportunity to meet eagle hunters who continue one of Central Asia&#39;s most remarkable living traditions.</p>

<p>One of them is Asylbek Manaa of Sagsai soum in Bayan-&Ouml;lgii Province.</p>

<p>When I first visited Asylbek&#39;s family, I expected to hear stories about hunting with golden eagles. Instead, much of our conversation returned to something deeper &mdash; family, responsibility, respect, and the lessons passed from one generation to the next.</p>

<p>For Asylbek, those lessons came from his father, the late eagle hunter Manaa.</p>

<p>Asylbek was born into a large family of eleven children. He was the sixth son among brothers and sisters who grew up together in the wide valleys of the Altai.</p>

<p>His parents were herders. His father was also a third-generation eagle hunter.</p>

<p>When speaking about his childhood, Asylbek returned again and again to the same thought:</p>

<p>&ldquo;To us, our father was a hero.&rdquo;</p>

<p>The words were simple, but behind them stood an entire way of life.</p>

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<p>TO US, OUR FATHER WAS A HERO</p>

<p>His father rarely taught through speeches. Instead, he taught through example.</p>

<p>Children learned by watching.</p>

<p>Older boys looked after horses and cattle, gathered water and firewood, and helped with the daily work of the household.</p>

<p>Younger children herded sheep and goats or cared for their younger siblings.</p>

<p>Everyone had responsibilities.</p>

<p>Work was not considered a burden.</p>

<p>It was simply part of life.</p>

<p>Looking back, Asylbek remembers that neither his father nor mother seemed to sit still for long. They were always working, always caring for their family, and always creating an environment where responsibility felt natural rather than forced.</p>

<p>The result, he says with pride, is that all eleven children grew up healthy, started families of their own, and continue to live productive lives today.</p>

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<p>THE STRENGTH BEHIND THE FAMILY</p>

<p>While Manaa passed down the traditions of eagle hunting, Asylbek&#39;s mother played an equally important role.</p>

<p>Like many Kazakh women of western Mongolia, she carried much of the responsibility for maintaining the household and preserving family traditions.</p>

<p>She taught her daughters the customs, skills, and values that had been passed down through generations &mdash; from preparing food and dairy products to sewing clothes and caring for a large family.</p>

<p>Even today, she remains the center of the family.</p>

<p>Children, grandchildren, and relatives continue to gather around her, and many of the values that shaped the next generation can be traced back to her guidance and example.</p>

<p>Traditions survive not only because hunters teach their sons, but because families remain strong enough to carry those traditions forward.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunters_sagsai_vallage_asilbek.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>AN EAGLE WAS PART OF THE FAMILY</p>

<p>Many visitors imagine an eagle as a hunting bird.</p>

<p>For Asylbek, it was much more than that.</p>

<p>His father considered the eagle a full member of the household.</p>

<p>The bird was always nearby.</p>

<p>Family members spoke about it, cared for it, fed it, and paid attention to its needs.</p>

<p>Everyone knew when it should be fed, when it should rest, and how it should be treated.</p>

<p>Asylbek remembers that his father often spoke to the eagle just as he spoke to people.</p>

<p>The family atmosphere seemed to include the bird as naturally as any other member of the household.</p>

<p>That relationship shaped the way he thinks about eagle hunting today.</p>

<p>An eagle, he explains, is not a tool.</p>

<p>It is not an object.</p>

<p>It is a companion that must be respected.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/eagle_hunter_asilbek_brodher.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>THE EAGLE IS YOUR FRIEND, YOUR HONOR, AND YOUR PRIDE</p>

<p>Among the many lessons he learned from his father, one stands above all others.</p>

<p>Respect.</p>

<p>Eagles are intelligent, sensitive animals.</p>

<p>They remember how they are treated.</p>

<p>Asylbek recalls stories of hunters who mistreated their birds and later lost them forever.</p>

<p>A single moment of anger could destroy years of trust.</p>

<p>His father taught him that an eagle should never be beaten or treated harshly.</p>

<p>&ldquo;You brought this bird down from the sky,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;You must never look down on it.&rdquo;</p>

<p>Over time, Asylbek developed his own understanding:</p>

<p>&ldquo;The eagle is your friend, your honor, and your pride.&rdquo;</p>

<p>Those words continue to guide him today.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Asilbek_his_fadhers_picture.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>THE DAY HIS FATHER THANKED AN EAGLE</p>

<p>One memory remains especially vivid.</p>

<p>As his father grew older, it became increasingly difficult for him to travel long distances with his eagle.</p>

<p>One day, Asylbek overheard him speaking quietly to the bird.</p>

<p>He thanked the eagle for the years they had spent together.</p>

<p>He told the bird that he understood its language.</p>

<p>He thanked it for being his true companion.</p>

<p>Asylbek had heard his father speak to eagles many times before, but something felt different that day.</p>

<p>There was more respect in his voice.</p>

<p>More gratitude.</p>

<p>More understanding.</p>

<p>The moment left a lasting impression on him.</p>

<p>It deepened his own sense of loyalty toward the birds and strengthened his belief that the relationship between hunter and eagle is built on trust rather than control.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Asilbek_Eagle_hunter_family.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>RETURNING HOME</p>

<p>After graduating as an electrical engineer, Asylbek spent several years living and working in Ulaanbaatar.</p>

<p>He could have continued his career in the capital.</p>

<p>Instead, he returned home.</p>

<p>His father repeatedly encouraged him to come back to Sagsai.</p>

<p>&ldquo;My son,&rdquo; he would say, &ldquo;live in your homeland. There is a good life here. Our homeland needs people who will contribute to it.&rdquo;</p>

<p>Years later, Asylbek remains grateful that he listened.</p>

<p>Today he lives and works in his community while continuing the traditions he inherited from previous generations.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Asilbek_with_son_Eagle_hunters.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>A LIVING TRADITION</p>

<p>The story did not end with Manaa.</p>

<p>Nor does it end with Asylbek.</p>

<p>A new generation is already growing up within the same family.</p>

<p>Children who once stood beneath the wings of their fathers&rsquo; eagles are now old enough to carry birds on their own arms.</p>

<p>The traditions, stories, equipment, and knowledge continue to pass from one generation to the next.</p>

<p>Some of the family&rsquo;s hunting equipment has already survived for more than a century.</p>

<p>Among their treasured possessions is an antelope-horn eagle stand believed to be over 150 years old, handed down through successive generations of eagle hunters.</p>

<p>For Asylbek, preserving this heritage is not simply about honoring the past.</p>

<p>It is about ensuring that future generations understand where they come from.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunters_family_asilbek.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>MORE THAN EAGLE HUNTING</p>

<p>It is easy to see families like Asylbek&rsquo;s only through the lens of eagle hunting.</p>

<p>But that would miss the larger story.</p>

<p>This is ultimately a story about family.</p>

<p>About parents who led through example.</p>

<p>About children who learned through observation.</p>

<p>About respect for elders.</p>

<p>About responsibility.</p>

<p>About patience.</p>

<p>About hard work.</p>

<p>About cultural identity.</p>

<p>These are the lessons Asylbek learned from his father.</p>

<p>And they may prove even more enduring than the tradition of eagle hunting itself.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>This article is based on interviews conducted by photographer and author Batzaya Choijiljav during the research and preparation of the book EAGLE HUNTERS (БҮРГЭД), a documentary project exploring the people, families, and living traditions of Mongolia&rsquo;s eagle hunting culture.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

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<h3 style="font-style: italic;">Written from over twenty years of travel, photography, and collaboration with eagle hunting families in western Mongolia.</h3>

<p>Long before eagle festivals became known internationally, the relationship between Kazakh eagle hunters and the Altai Mountains had already existed for generations.</p>

<p>This culture was never created for tourism. It was shaped slowly through mountain life, winter survival, horses, hunting traditions, family responsibility, and the vast landscape of western Mongolia itself.</p>

<p>The first time I watched an eagle hunter riding beneath the high Altai mountains with a golden eagle on his arm, something immediately felt natural about the scene &mdash; almost like seeing a fish return to water. The mountains, the horse, the eagle, and the rider did not feel separated from one another. They belonged together.</p>

<p>Over the past twenty years working in tourism and photography across Mongolia, I came to understand that this feeling is also what attracts so many visitors to the Altai. People are not simply coming to see an eagle. They are trying to experience a living cultural world that still remains deeply connected to place, family, and landscape.</p>

<p>I did not grow up inside this tradition myself. I was born in Zavkhan province in central Mongolia and come from a Khalkh Mongolian background. In many ways, I first encountered the eagle hunters as an outsider too &mdash; with curiosity and respect, much like the travelers who arrive in the Altai for the first time. Over the years, however, that curiosity gradually became a deeper understanding of how unique and fragile this cultural world truly is.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_Hunters_Mongolia_Eagle_training.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="585" data-section-id="1ultx4g" data-start="553">A Culture Shaped by the Altai</h2>

<p>Not everyone becomes an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>Among Kazakh families of the Altai, eagle hunting is not simply a hobby or performance. Knowledge is often passed from father to son, from older brother to younger brother, and between generations over long periods of time. The tradition carries patience, responsibility, and years of lived experience.</p>

<p>The culture itself could only have emerged in a place like the Altai. Horses, open valleys, winter conditions, hunting traditions, and the rhythm of nomadic life all shaped the world in which eagle hunting survived. Even today, seeing an eagle hunter riding through the mountain valleys still feels inseparable from the landscape around him.</p>

<p>An eagle itself is also far more than a symbol displayed during festivals.</p>

<p>Keeping a golden eagle requires constant care, feeding, training, and attention throughout the year. During the warmer seasons, many eagles live outside. But in winter, the eagle often lives inside the family home itself, occupying its own place in the western-southern side of the ger or house.</p>

<p>Caring for the bird becomes part of everyday family life. Children help feed and look after the eagle. Women clean the surrounding space and participate in its daily care. Over time, the eagle becomes part of the household itself.</p>

<p>This is one reason why eagle hunting culture cannot be understood only through competitions or photographs alone. Behind every eagle hunter stands an entire family helping carry the tradition forward.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Old_Eagle_hunters-Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="613" data-section-id="1q1yn22" data-start="587">A Changing Modern World</h2>

<p>Like many traditional ways of life around the world, the eagle hunter culture of the Altai is also changing.</p>

<p>Several hunters from remote regions have spoken quietly about leaving the tradition behind &mdash; not because they stopped respecting it, but because keeping an eagle has become increasingly difficult. Feeding and caring for the birds requires time, money, and constant effort. Hunting opportunities have also changed over time as wildlife regulations, modern economic realities, and daily life in the Altai have gradually shifted.</p>

<p>Families living far from tourism routes often face even greater challenges. Some hunters explained that they eventually had to focus more on raising livestock and supporting their families rather than continuing to keep eagles as previous generations once did.</p>

<p>In the past, eagle hunting was closely tied to survival and winter hunting in the mountains. Today, the world surrounding the Altai hunters is no longer the same.</p>

<p>Like many remote regions facing rapid modernization, the Altai is also changing quickly, bringing both new opportunities and new pressures for local communities.</p>

<p>Yet the culture still remains alive.</p>

<p>Not because it has stayed frozen in the past, but because families continue adapting while trying to protect what matters most.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Sagsai_young_eagle_hunter_mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="645" data-section-id="1gjetbc" data-start="615">Why Gatherings Still Matter</h2>

<p>For generations, eagle hunters gathered seasonally not only to compete, but also to meet one another, exchange knowledge, maintain relationships between families, and continue a shared cultural identity connected to the Altai.</p>

<p>Modern eagle festivals grew naturally from this deeper tradition of gathering.</p>

<p>Today, these gatherings remain important not only for visitors, but also for the hunters themselves. Preparing for the festival becomes part of the yearly rhythm of many eagle hunting families. It creates pride, motivation, and recognition within the community itself.</p>

<p>The festivals are also larger than the competitions alone.</p>

<p>Women present traditional handicrafts and handmade work. Children perform music and cultural programs. Young artists display drawings and paintings inspired by their homeland and heritage. Many of these children may become the next generation who continue carrying the culture forward in different ways.</p>

<p>In this sense, the eagle festivals are not simply performances for tourists. They remain living community gatherings connected to the wider cultural world of the Altai.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Golden_eagle_festival_mongolia_womans_art.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="672" data-section-id="j0wo5h" data-start="647">Tourism and Continuity</h2>

<p>Tourism alone cannot preserve culture.</p>

<p>But when done respectfully, it can help traditions remain economically meaningful in a changing world.</p>

<p>For some families today, introducing travelers to their eagles and way of life has become one of the few realistic ways to continue keeping the tradition alive while remaining in the Altai itself.</p>

<p>For Mongolia&rsquo;s tourism industry, the eagle festival season also arrives at an important time of year. Much of the country&rsquo;s tourism remains concentrated between June and August. The eagle festivals of September and October create opportunities beyond the short summer season &mdash; not only for travelers, but also for remote western communities.</p>

<p>Families build guest gers. Local drivers find work. Horse owners, craftsmen, musicians, cooks, and herding families all become part of the wider cultural economy surrounding the festivals.</p>

<p>Today, new roads are reaching Sagsai. Small tourism camps are beginning to appear. Some eagle hunter families are preparing additional guest spaces beside their homes. These changes may seem small, but they represent something important: the possibility that local people can continue living with dignity while remaining connected to their own traditions.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunters_items_mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="695" data-section-id="1iubqz3" data-start="674">The Role of Sagsai</h2>

<p>For this reason, the <u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-mongolia">Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival</a> </u>has always meant more to us than a tourism event alone.</p>

<p>Sagsai is not simply an administrative district. It is one of the cultural centers of Mongolia&rsquo;s Kazakh eagle hunter world. Many of the country&rsquo;s eagle hunting families continue living there, and we believed it was important for visitors to experience this culture closer to the communities where it still survives most strongly.</p>

<p>Even the prizes given during the festival reflect a philosophy we have tried to protect.</p>

<p>For many years, the festival&rsquo;s top winners have been awarded horses rather than modern machinery or vehicles. This choice was intentional. We hope the image of the horse-mounted eagle hunter remains part of the Altai landscape for generations to come.</p>

<p>The goal has never been to create mass tourism.</p>

<p>The goal is to help people understand why this culture matters &mdash; not only to the Kazakh eagle hunters themselves, but also to Mongolia&rsquo;s cultural identity and to the future of the Altai region.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Three_hunters_with_horses.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="715" data-section-id="j62i49" data-start="697">Looking Forward</h2>

<p>Today, the golden eagle hunters of Mongolia stand at an important moment between continuity and change.</p>

<p>Roads are arriving. The modern world is expanding. Younger generations are growing up differently from their grandparents.</p>

<p>Yet in the mountains of the Altai, there are still mornings when an eagle hunter rides across open valleys beneath snow-covered peaks with his bird raised against the cold wind &mdash; a sight that still feels inseparable from the land itself.</p>

<p>Preserving that relationship may become one of the quiet cultural responsibilities of our generation.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunters-Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>Experience the Eagle Hunter Traditions of the Altai</p>

<p>Explore our curated journeys into western Mongolia and experience the living culture of the Kazakh eagle hunters respectfully and responsibly through the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival.</p>

<p><em>Written by Batzaya Choijiljav, founder of Ayan Travel, author of EAGLE, and a photographer who has spent over two decades documenting Mongolia&rsquo;s wildlife, culture, and people.</em></p>

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			'body' => '<h2>What Real Field Experience Looks Like</h2>

<p>At dawn, the mountains are silent except for the sound of wind crossing frozen rock.</p>

<p>A tracker stops suddenly and studies a distant ridgeline through binoculars. Nobody speaks. Cameras remain lowered. Sometimes nothing appears for hours. Sometimes for days.</p>

<p>This is what a real snow leopard photography expedition in Mongolia feels like.</p>

<p>Not a safari. Not a guaranteed wildlife encounter. But a field-based experience shaped by patience, weather, altitude, and the unpredictable movement of one of the world&rsquo;s most elusive predators.</p>

<p>Photographing snow leopards in the wild remains one of the most demanding forms of wildlife photography on Earth.</p>

<p>A Mongolia snow leopard photography expedition requires physical endurance, adaptability, and the willingness to accept uncertainty in remote mountain terrain where sightings can never be guaranteed.</p>

<p>Yet meaningful encounters still occur for those willing to observe carefully, move patiently, and spend time in the mountains on the animal&rsquo;s terms.</p>

<h3>How Our Snow Leopard Photography Expeditions Took Shape</h3>

<p>Ayan Travel began operating dedicated snow leopard photography expeditions after many years of leading wildlife-focused journeys across western Mongolia.</p>

<p>As a Mongolia-based expedition team, we saw growing interest from serious international photographers seeking authentic field experience rather than structured wildlife tourism.</p>

<p>Over time, it became clear that snow leopard photography could never follow fixed sightseeing logic.</p>

<p>Routes, timing, and daily movement had to remain flexible, adapting constantly to weather, terrain, tracking conditions, and the natural behavior of the animal itself.</p>

<p>Our approach gradually evolved through repeated field expeditions, direct observation, and years spent working in Mongolia&rsquo;s remote mountain ecosystems.</p>

<p>This approach was shaped in part by the long-term wildlife fieldwork of photographer and expedition leader Batzaya Choijiljav. Years spent documenting Mongolia&rsquo;s wildlife helped develop an expedition style based on careful observation, respect for wild animals, and an understanding that meaningful encounters take time.</p>

<p>Today, the same principles continue to define how every Ayan Travel snow leopard photography expedition operates.</p>

<h3>From Fieldwork to Photography Books</h3>

<p>Time spent in snow leopard habitat eventually led to long-term photography and publishing projects.</p>

<p>Drawing on years of work in Mongolia&rsquo;s remote mountain landscapes, Batzaya Choijiljav later published large-format photography books dedicated to the snow leopard and its habitat. The images and stories presented in these books reflect the same field experience and deep connection to the mountains that continue to inspire our expeditions today.</p>

<h3>What a Real Snow Leopard Photography Expedition Feels Like</h3>

<p>Preparation begins long before entering the mountains.</p>

<p>Participants receive detailed guidance on winter clothing systems, physical readiness, camera equipment, altitude considerations, and mental expectations.</p>

<p>Snow leopard photography requires as much patience internally as it does technical skill behind the camera.</p>

<p>Once in the field, days revolve around tracking and observation.</p>

<p>Local trackers scan distant slopes for fresh movement, paw prints, prey behavior, and subtle signs hidden within the terrain.</p>

<p>Photographers spend long hours studying ridgelines through binoculars and telephoto lenses, often in temperatures ranging between &ndash;20&deg;C and &ndash;30&deg;C.</p>

<p>Elevation typically varies between 2,500 and 3,100 meters.</p>

<p>Terrain is steep, rocky, and physically demanding.</p>

<p>Equipment is heavy.</p>

<p>Movement is deliberate.</p>

<p>Some days involve climbing several ridges through deep snow only to find old tracks disappearing into broken cliffs.</p>

<p>Fingers freeze quickly while changing camera settings.</p>

<p>Wind cuts across exposed slopes.</p>

<p>Hours pass behind binoculars without movement.</p>

<p>Then suddenly, everything changes in seconds.</p>

<p>Snow leopard habitat is never empty.</p>

<p>Siberian ibex move carefully across distant cliffs. Argali appear briefly against open slopes. Ravens circle silently in rising wind.</p>

<p>These moments matter because they reveal the larger mountain ecosystem the snow leopard belongs to.</p>

<p>Then, on certain mornings, the tracker lowers his binoculars slightly and gestures quietly.</p>

<p>A shape moves slowly across a distant ridge.</p>

<p>A pale body against fractured rock.</p>

<p>For a few brief moments &mdash; sometimes only seconds &mdash; the entire mountain narrows to a single presence.</p>

<p>No fences. No vehicles. No noise.</p>

<p>Only distance, cold air, and a rare animal moving freely through its natural world.</p>

<p>Moments like this cannot be manufactured.</p>

<p>They can only be earned through patience, field discipline, and time spent in the mountains.</p>

<h3>Ethics and Responsibility in Snow Leopard Photography</h3>

<p>Ethical practice remains central to every Ayan Travel snow leopard photography expedition.</p>

<p>Snow leopards are never chased, pressured, baited, or approached aggressively.</p>

<p>Maintaining appropriate distance is non-negotiable.</p>

<p>Photography should never alter the animal&rsquo;s natural behavior.</p>

<p>Success is not measured only by photographic proximity, but by whether the animal remains undisturbed and able to continue naturally within its environment.</p>

<p>Our expeditions operate with the understanding that we are visitors within the animal&rsquo;s territory.</p>

<p>The mountain dictates pace.</p>

<p>Distance, restraint, and patience are essential parts of ethical snow leopard photography.</p>

<h3>What We Have Learned from the Field</h3>

<p>Through repeated snow leopard photography expeditions in Mongolia, we have learned that:</p>

<p>Snow leopard sightings can never be guaranteed.</p>

<p>Patience and observation matter more than speed.</p>

<p>Accepting uncertainty often leads to the most meaningful experiences.</p>

<p>Small group sizes significantly improve field efficiency and flexibility.</p>

<p>Respect for the animal always matters more than the photograph itself.</p>

<p>These lessons continue to shape how we design and operate our expeditions today.</p>

<h3>Who This Expedition Is Designed For</h3>

<p>This snow leopard photography expedition is designed for photographers who understand that meaningful wildlife work requires uncertainty.</p>

<p>It is for individuals comfortable in remote winter conditions, physically demanding terrain, and long periods of observation.</p>

<p>It is for photographers who value authenticity over convenience and field experience over guarantees.</p>

<p>This is not a casual sightseeing tour or a guaranteed-sighting wildlife trip.</p>

<p>Small group sizes are intentionally maintained to preserve flexibility, minimize environmental disturbance, and maximize field efficiency in the mountains.</p>

<h2><span style="font-size:24px;">Why Mongolia Remains One of the Last True Frontiers for Snow Leopard Photography</span></h2>

<p>Mongolia offers something increasingly rare in modern wildlife tourism: scale, isolation, and uncertainty.</p>

<p>Vast mountain terrain, limited infrastructure, and low tourism pressure still allow snow leopards to move largely undisturbed across enormous landscapes.</p>

<p>Unlike heavily commercialized wildlife destinations, success here depends less on infrastructure and more on patience, local field knowledge, weather, timing, and time spent in the mountains.</p>

<p>This combination of scale, climate, and unpredictability continues to make Mongolia one of the last true frontiers for snow leopard photography.</p>

<p>Serious wildlife photographers continue to seek Mongolia not for guarantees, but for authenticity.</p>

<h2><span style="font-size:24px;">If You Are Considering Joining a Snow Leopard Photography Expedition in Mongolia</span></h2>

<p>If you are looking for a highly structured wildlife tour with predictable outcomes, this may not be the right expedition.</p>

<p>But if you are seeking a real snow leopard photography expedition in Mongolia led by a Mongolia-based team with long-term field experience in the Altai Mountains, we invite you to explore our upcoming departures.</p>

<p>Some expeditions end with only tracks in the snow.</p>

<p>Others offer a brief moment that remains unforgettable for the rest of your life.</p>

<p>The mountains decide which one you receive.</p>

<p>Your role is simply to arrive prepared.</p>

<p>Explore Our Snow Leopard Photography Expeditions in Mongolia</p>

<p>Small winter departures led by a Mongolia-based expedition team with long-term field experience in Mongolia&rsquo;s remote Altai Mountains.</p>

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			'body' => '<p class="isSelectedEnd">Travelers planning an eagle festival journey in western Mongolia are often surprised to discover that the experience can vary significantly depending on where &mdash; and when &mdash; they go. In reality, the experience can feel very different depending on where &mdash; and when &mdash; you go. Although these festivals are often grouped together online, the September Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival and the larger October Golden Eagle Festival period near &Ouml;lgii offer distinctly different atmospheres, travel rhythms, and photographic experiences.</p>

<p>Neither is necessarily &ldquo;better.&rdquo; The right choice depends largely on what kind of journey you are looking for. Western Mongolia is also home to several smaller local eagle hunting gatherings, but this article focuses only on the two festival experiences most commonly considered by international travelers planning an eagle festival tour in Mongolia.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#A52A2A;">The October Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia</span></h2>

<p><img alt="Calling Eagle" src="/uploads/October_golden_eagle_festival_pic.jpg" /></p>

<p>The October Golden Eagle Festival holds an important place in the development of Mongolia&rsquo;s cultural tourism history. Over many years, it became one of the country&rsquo;s earliest internationally recognized travel events and helped introduce the eagle hunting traditions of western Mongolia to visitors from around the world.</p>

<h3>A Large-Scale Cultural Festival Atmosphere</h3>

<p>The festival atmosphere during early October is energetic and large in scale. Depending on the year and location, visitors may encounter many eagle hunters, cultural performances, spectators, traditional music, artisan trade, and a broad public festival environment surrounding the competitions.</p>

<p>For many first-time travelers to Mongolia, this dramatic atmosphere is part of the attraction itself &mdash; horses crossing open valleys, hunters in heavy fur clothing, cold wind moving through the Altai landscape, and, in some years, early snow arriving across the mountains.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Bayan-Olgii" src="/uploads/golden_eagle_festival_parade_october.jpg" /></p>

<h3>Kazakh Crafts, Markets, and Cultural Energy</h3>

<p>The larger October festival period also creates opportunities to experience Kazakh craft traditions more broadly, including handmade hunting equipment, embroidery, fur work, traditional clothing, and local artisan markets around the festival grounds.</p>

<p>Over time, the October festival also grew through the work of local eagle hunter communities, provincial organizers, and early tourism initiatives developed by companies such as Nomadic Expeditions, which helped introduce eagle hunting culture of western Mongolia to international tourism audiences.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/moments_golden_eagle_festival_october.jpg" /></p>

<h3>Important Travel Information About the October Festival Period</h3>

<p>Travelers planning around the October festival period should also note that, in recent years, more than one festival event has taken place during the same weekend in different locations and under different organizing groups.</p>

<p>One event is traditionally organized near Sayat Tolgoi (Sayat Hill) with provincial involvement, while another has also been organized separately in the Sharnuur area.</p>

<p>Because these events happen during the same weekend, schedules, participant presence, transport logistics, and overall atmosphere can vary depending on the specific event and year.</p>

<p>The October festival period can also place significant pressure on local infrastructure. Flights into Bayan-&Ouml;lgii often become heavily booked, while accommodation availability during peak festival dates may become limited due to the large concentration of visitors arriving during the same period.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#A52A2A;">The Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival</span></h2>

<p><img alt="Mongolia Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival " src="/uploads/SAGSAI_FESTIVAL_opening.png" /></p>

<p>The Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival takes place annually on September 17&ndash;18 in Sagsai soum of Bayan-&Ouml;lgii province. Rather than developing around a large public festival atmosphere, Sagsai gradually formed its own identity through long-term collaboration with local eagle hunter families and a stronger focus on photography, documentary travel, and cultural immersion.</p>

<h3>Why Many Photographers Prefer the Sagsai Festival</h3>

<p>The overall rhythm is quieter and more personal. Many travelers are drawn to the feeling of space around the event &mdash; open mountain landscapes, fewer visual distractions, and more opportunities to observe interactions between hunters, families, horses, and eagles beyond the main competition moments themselves.</p>

<p>For photographers, the environment is often one of the strongest reasons for choosing Sagsai. The festival grounds are positioned within wide open landscapes with mountain backdrops and a cleaner visual environment that allows for more natural compositions and less crowd interference around the field.</p>

<p>Sagsai is generally experienced less as a mass public gathering and more as a field-oriented cultural environment shaped around observation, atmosphere, and time spent within the surrounding landscape and community.</p>

<p><img alt="Sagsai festival documentary Photography" src="/uploads/Sagsai_golden_eagle_festival_photography_sesion.jpg" /></p>

<h3>September Weather and Travel Advantages</h3>

<p>The September timing also changes the overall travel experience significantly. Roads across western Mongolia are generally easier to access, daylight hours remain longer, and travelers often combine the festival with broader journeys through the Altai Mountains or the Gobi before colder October weather begins affecting some seasonal routes and camps.</p>

<p>Many returning photographers and documentary travelers also appreciate the consistency of the Sagsai festival structure, including its fixed annual timing and single festival location, which can make long-distance travel planning considerably easier.</p>

<p>Rather than trying to become the largest eagle festival in Mongolia, the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival developed around a more personal atmosphere shaped through long-term relationships with local eagle hunter families in western Mongolia.</p>

<p><img alt="Ayan Travel Eagle Festival" src="/uploads/Sagsai_golden_eagle_festival_Ayan_travel.png" /></p>

<h2>Practical Travel Information for Both Eagle Festivals</h2>

<p>Both festival periods typically use &Ouml;lgii town as the main accommodation base, with travelers flying from Ulaanbaatar into &Ouml;lgii Airport.</p>

<p>Flights to western Mongolia are limited and often become heavily booked during festival periods, particularly in early October, so advance booking is strongly recommended.</p>

<p>Most visitors stay in hotels, guesthouses, or ger camps in and around &Ouml;lgii before traveling daily to the festival grounds.</p>

<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival: approximately 35 km from &Ouml;lgii</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>October Golden Eagle Festival locations: generally closer to &Ouml;lgii depending on the year and location</p>
	</li>
</ul>

<p>Traditional Kazakh meals and local food are commonly available at both festival grounds throughout the event days.</p>

<h3>Comparing Photography Conditions at Mongolia&rsquo;s Eagle Festivals</h3>

<p>The answer depends entirely on what kind of photography experience you are looking for.</p>

<p>The October Golden Eagle Festival offers a larger public atmosphere, more visible cultural activity, greater crowd energy, the possibility of snow and winter scenery, and a strong festival spectacle.</p>

<p>The Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival offers cleaner visual backgrounds, more open space, easier movement around the field, less crowd interference, and more documentary-style interaction and observation.</p>

<p>Some photographers are drawn to the energy and winter atmosphere of October, while others prefer the quieter rhythm and visual openness of Sagsai.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle Festival Photography tour" src="/uploads/Sagsai_festival_eagle_hunters.png" /></p>

<h2>Choosing the Right Eagle Festival Experience in Western Mongolia</h2>

<p>In reality, these festivals are not competing versions of the same trip.</p>

<p>The October Golden Eagle Festival offers a dramatic large-scale public gathering atmosphere connected to one of Mongolia&rsquo;s best-known cultural tourism events.</p>

<p>The Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival offers a more photography-oriented and immersion-focused experience shaped around observation, atmosphere, and closer interaction with local eagle hunter families and landscapes.</p>

<p>Some travelers come for the spectacle.</p>

<p>Others come for the space between moments.</p>

<p>Both continue to play important roles in preserving and sharing the traditions of Kazakh eagle hunting in western Mongolia.</p>

<h2><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_festival_evening_Shooting.png" /></h2>

<p>As one of the organizers of the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival, AYAN Travel works closely with local eagle hunter families, guides, and photographers throughout western Mongolia. Travelers interested in either the September Sagsai festival or the larger October festival period can contact our team for current schedules, travel planning, and photography-focused journeys across the Altai region.</p>

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<p data-end="213" data-start="55">Every autumn, travelers from around the world arrive in&nbsp;Mongolia hoping to witness one of the last great horse-and-eagle traditions still alive today.</p>

<p data-end="463" data-start="215">Most travelers know it simply as the Golden Eagle Festival, but in recent years another name has become increasingly recognized among photographers, filmmakers, documentary teams, and returning cultural travelers &mdash; the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival.</p>

<p data-end="866" data-start="465">Held annually on September 17&ndash;18 near Sagsai soum in Bayan-Ulgii Province, the festival has gradually become one of Mongolia&rsquo;s most distinctive cultural and photography-focused events. Unlike festivals built mainly around crowds and tourism, Sagsai still feels closely connected to the mountains, nomadic life, eagle hunter families, and the daily rhythm of Kazakh culture in the Altai region.</p>

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<p><img alt="Sagsai" src="/uploads/Sagsai_Eagle_festival_opening_.png" /></p>

<h2>&nbsp;</h2>

<h2>WHAT IS SAGSAI?</h2>

<p data-end="1479" data-start="1247">Sagsai is both the name of a river valley and a soum (administrative district) in Bayan-Ulgii Province in western Mongolia. The region is widely known as one of the most important centers of Kazakh eagle hunting culture in Mongolia.</p>

<p data-end="1746" data-start="1481">Today, more than 80 active eagle hunters live throughout Sagsai and the surrounding areas. Many are connected through the Sagsai Eagle Hunter Association, which plays an important role in preserving local eagle hunting traditions and organizing the annual festival.</p>

<p data-end="1930" data-start="1748">Since first being established in 2018, the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival has continued growing each year while still maintaining a strong connection to local eagle hunter communities.</p>

<p data-end="2146" data-start="1932">Among the best-known eagle hunters from the region is Serik Jenisbek, whose images have become internationally recognized through documentaries, photography projects, and cultural productions from around the world.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle hunter Jenisbek" src="/uploads/Sagsai_golden_Eagle_festival_jenisbek.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h2>A FESTIVAL DESIGNED AROUND THE LANDSCAPE</h2>

<p>One of the defining characteristics of the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival is the way the festival grounds are organized in harmony with the surrounding environment.</p>

<p>Rather than creating a visually crowded arena dominated by vehicles and modern infrastructure, the festival is carefully arranged so the mountains and open valley remain part of the experience itself. Spectators gather in an open semi-circular viewing area while eagle hunters and horse riders perform against a backdrop of open terrain and surrounding mountain slopes.</p>

<p>Parking areas, vendor sections, and support facilities are intentionally positioned away from the primary viewing environment so photographers and visitors can experience the competitions without heavy visual distraction. For photographers and filmmakers, this creates something increasingly rare &mdash; the opportunity to document eagle hunting culture in a landscape that still feels timeless.</p>

<p><img alt="Sagsai Eagle festival Mongolia" src="/uploads/Sagsai_nomadic_festival_game.png" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h2>WHEN THE EAGLE HUNTERS APPEAR</h2>

<p>For many visitors, the most unforgettable moment of the entire festival happens at the very beginning.</p>

<p>As the opening ceremony approaches, the valley gradually grows quiet before long lines of eagle hunters on horseback begin appearing one after another from the folds of the surrounding mountains. Nearly a hundred riders descend together carrying golden eagles on their arms as they move slowly toward the festival grounds.</p>

<p>For first-time visitors, the moment can feel almost unreal. Some travelers stand frozen between raising their cameras and simply watching in silence while others quietly wipe tears from their eyes.</p>

<p>Against the open valley and mountain backdrop, the riders eventually form a great circle together before the crowd, their horses moving beneath raised eagles as if ancient horsemen had emerged directly from the Altai Mountains themselves. Only after this dramatic arrival does the official festival opening truly begin.</p>

<h2>THE COMPETITIONS</h2>

<p>At the center of the festival are the eagle hunting competitions themselves &mdash; events that combine horsemanship, eagle handling, speed, discipline, and deep trust between hunter and bird.</p>

<p>One of the most dramatic competitions takes place high along the mountain slopes above the valley. An eagle hunter waits below on horseback while another person assists from the mountainside above, releasing the hunter&rsquo;s eagle from a distant ridge.</p>

<p>As the hunter calls from below using the familiar voice and calls recognized by the bird, the eagle circles through the mountain air before descending rapidly toward its owner. In one competition, the eagle must return directly to the hunter&rsquo;s arm. In another, the eagle is released toward a fox skin dragged behind a galloping horse across the valley floor.</p>

<p>Traditional horseback games also form an important part of the festival. Riders compete in horseback coin pickup games requiring speed, balance, and precision, while another major competition involves horsemen battling to seize and carry a goat skin across the field in a traditional Central Asian horseback contest demanding strength, endurance, and horsemanship.</p>

<p>Another beloved event is the traditional horseback game between young men and women, where couples race side by side across the open field in a playful competition combining speed, humor, beauty, and horsemanship.</p>

<p><img alt="Sagsai Golden eagle festiva" src="/uploads/Kazakh_eagle_hunters_during_Sagsai_festival.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h2>MORE THAN AN EAGLE FESTIVAL</h2>

<p>Although eagle hunting remains the heart of the festival, the atmosphere surrounding Sagsai reflects a much broader picture of Kazakh nomadic culture.</p>

<p>Before the official opening begins, nomadic families arrive across the valley with camels, horses, cattle, sheep, and goats before setting up their gers near the festival grounds. Women display handmade embroidery and traditional crafts while local artisans and merchants organize cultural market areas featuring regional products and handmade goods.</p>

<p>Throughout the festival, visitors can attend cultural concerts performed by local musicians, dancers, and children from Sagsai and Bayan-Ulgii Province. Traditional Kazakh music, including the sound of the dombra and performances such as Khaira Jorga, become part of the atmosphere across the festival grounds.</p>

<p>For many visitors, these moments become just as memorable as the competitions themselves.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle hunter Mongolia Sagsai Festival" src="/uploads/Sagsai_golden_eagle_festival_eagle_hunters_portrait.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h2>WHY MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS PREFER SAGSAI FESTIVAL</h2>

<p>Over the years, the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival has become increasingly recognized among photographers and documentary filmmakers searching for a more open and visually immersive festival environment.</p>

<p>Part of this comes from the landscape itself &mdash; open mountain backdrops, cleaner visual space, fewer modern distractions, and natural movement across the surrounding valley. The festival layout is intentionally designed to preserve visual openness rather than creating heavily crowded viewing environments.</p>

<p>Many photographers first arrive for the festival itself before later returning for winter eagle hunting expeditions, mountain portrait sessions, family stays, and long-term documentary projects throughout the Altai region.</p>

<p>For visual storytellers, Sagsai offers a rare balance between cultural authenticity, visual clarity, and strong photographic atmosphere.</p>

<p><img alt="Altai Mongolia Eagle hunters" src="/uploads/EAGLE_calling_game_sagsai_photo.jpg" /></p>

<h2>&nbsp;</h2>

<h2>TRAVEL TIMING ADVANTAGES</h2>

<p>The timing of the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival also creates important travel advantages for visitors exploring western Mongolia more broadly.</p>

<p>Because the festival takes place earlier in September, travelers often still have favorable conditions for visiting the Altai Mountains before heavier snowfall begins in higher mountain passes later in autumn. This makes it easier to combine the festival with journeys into places such as Altai Tavan Bogd National Park.</p>

<p>The earlier timing also allows travelers to combine the festival with Gobi Desert journeys while many seasonal camps and tourism facilities across southern Mongolia are still operating before winter closures begin in October.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Tourist_and_eagle_hunter_mongolia_sagsai_festival.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia Sagsai Golden Eagle festival" src="/uploads/Sagsai_Golden_eagle_festivals_wiiners.png" /></p>

<h2>&nbsp;</h2>

<h2>HOW TO ATTEND THE SAGSAI GOLDEN EAGLE FESTIVAL</h2>

<p data-end="574" data-start="460">The Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival takes place annually on September 17&ndash;18 near Sagsai soum in Bayan-Ulgii Province.</p>

<p data-end="711" data-start="576">Because accommodations, domestic flights, and local family stays are limited during the festival period, early planning is recommended.</p>

<p data-end="797" data-start="713">Many travelers join <u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-tour-mongolia"><span style="color:#0066ff;">organized festival departures</span></a></u> or photography tours that include:</p>

<ul data-end="1024" data-start="799">
	<li data-end="839" data-section-id="9a28nu" data-start="799">Domestic flights to western Mongolia</li>
	<li data-end="864" data-section-id="s1jfy3" data-start="840">Local transportation</li>
	<li data-end="884" data-section-id="1wt3w8q" data-start="865">Festival access</li>
	<li data-end="915" data-section-id="13lvjye" data-start="885">Eagle hunter family visits</li>
	<li data-end="951" data-section-id="k50ndo" data-start="916">Photography-focused experiences</li>
	<li data-end="981" data-section-id="f3u72b" data-start="952">Altai Mountain excursions</li>
	<li data-end="1024" data-section-id="vlygfi" data-start="982">Traditional Kazakh cultural activities</li>
</ul>

<p data-end="1177" data-start="1026">Small-group journeys are especially popular among photographers and travelers looking for a deeper cultural experience beyond the main festival itself.</p>

<p data-end="1423" data-start="1179">Since first launching the festival in 2018, Ayan Travel has worked together with local eagle hunter families and the Sagsai Eagle Hunter Association to help develop and preserve the festival as one of western Mongolia&rsquo;s leading cultural events.</p>

<p data-end="1596" data-start="1425">Today, <u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/company-profile"><span style="color:#0066ff;">Ayan Travel</span></a></u> remains the festival&rsquo;s main organizer, creating cultural journeys, festival departures, and photography-focused experiences throughout the Altai region.</p>

<p data-end="1777" data-start="1598">If you are interested in attending the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival, visiting eagle hunter families, or exploring western Mongolia can plan your&nbsp;journey with us.&nbsp;</p>

<p data-end="1777" data-start="1598">&nbsp;</p>

<p data-end="1777" data-start="1598">&nbsp;</p>
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			'body' => '<p>Welcome to the Mongolian Gobi Desert, a land of awe-inspiring landscapes that stretch across endless horizons. Discover the Mongolian Gobi Desert, a vast landscape of stunning sand dunes, rocky formations, and serene oases. Experience nomadic hospitality in traditional ger camps and witness Mongolian herding rituals. Wildlife enthusiasts can spot rare species like Bactrian camels and wild asses, while history buffs explore dinosaur fossils at the Flaming Cliffs. Adventurers can enjoy camel trekking and off-road drives across diverse terrain. At night, marvel at fiery sunsets and the Milky Way. Throughout the year, from scorching summers to frosty winters, the Gobi showcases its ever-changing beauty. Indulge in traditional Mongolian cuisine amidst this tranquil desert setting and support sustainable tourism initiatives.</p>

<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Exploring the Majestic Landscapes of Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert</strong></span></h3>

<p>Discover Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert, a vast expanse of ever-changing landscapes where towering sand dunes, some over 200 meters tall, shift gracefully with the wind. Millennia of erosion have sculpted the desert into a canvas of unique geological formations, revealing ancient history in each stratified layer of rock.</p>

<p>Its iconic features are rocky outcrops and the dramatic granite peaks of the Gurvan Saikhan Mountains, home to rare wildlife like the snow leopard and endangered Gobi bear. The Flaming Cliffs, or Bayanzag, stand out for their rich fossil beds, where paleontologists have unearthed dinosaur eggs and bones, vividly preserving a prehistoric world.</p>

<p>Despite its harsh environment, the Gobi supports diverse life, including hardy desert flora like saxaul trees and resilient grasses, showcasing nature&#39;s adaptability in extreme conditions.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Wildlife Wonders of Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert</strong></span></h3>

<p>Explore Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert and its diverse wildlife, showcasing nature&#39;s resilience in one of Earth&#39;s toughest terrains. Meet the iconic Bactrian camel, famed for its dual humps and ability to thrive in sparse vegetation and extreme climates. The desert is also home to endangered Gobi khulans and Mongolian gazelles. At the same time, overhead soar majestic raptors like vultures and eagles, alongside desert-dwelling birds such as the Pallas&#39;s sandgrouse, enriching the region&#39;s biodiversity. Among its enigmatic residents is the rare Gobi Bear, &quot;Mazaalai,&quot; uniquely adapted to endure extreme temperatures and scarce water, highlighting the desert&#39;s allure for wildlife enthusiasts and researchers alike.</p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Legends and Mongolia&#39;s Rich Cultural <strong>Heritage</strong></strong></span></h3>

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<p>The nomadic herding culture of Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert is rich with traditions deeply tied to the land. Nomads primarily herd sheep, goats, horses, camels, and yaks, moving seasonally in search of pasture and water. Traditional ger camps, circular tents made of wood, felt, and canvas, serve as their homes, providing winter warmth and summer ventilation. Hospitality is central, with visitors welcomed warmly and offered traditional dairy products like airag, suutei tsai, and aaruul. Meals shared with nomadic families feature hearty dishes such as buuz, khuushuur, and various mutton dishes. Interacting with local herders offers insights into their daily lives, including tasks like milking animals and preparing for seasonal migrations, showcasing their deep knowledge of the Gobi&#39;s natural resources and survival skills.</p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Echoes of Antiquity</strong></span></h3>

<p>Step into the Mongolian Gobi Desert, a land steeped in archaeological wonders that reveal millennia of human history. This rugged landscape offers profound insights into ancient civilizations that thrived amidst its harsh yet captivating terrain. At the Flaming Cliffs (Bayanzag), renowned for their dinosaur fossils, paleontological expeditions have uncovered a wealth of skeletons, eggs, and other relics dating back millions of years. These discoveries illuminate the evolution and behavior of dinosaurs, offering a glimpse into a prehistoric world that once inhabited this ancient realm. Delve into the Gobi&#39;s archaeological marvels and embark on a journey through time, where each fossil unearthed tells a compelling story of our planet&#39;s past.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Mongolian_dinosaures.png" /></p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Thrilling Pursuits in Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert</strong></span></h3>

<p>Embark on an unforgettable journey into Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert, where adventure awaits at every turn. Whether trekking atop camels across towering sand dunes, hiking to discover hidden oases, or experiencing the adrenaline rush of off-road desert driving, you&#39;ll immerse yourself in a vibrant tapestry of experiences blending excitement, exploration, and the raw beauty of nature.</p>

<p style="margin-left:36pt;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Camel Trekking: Ride atop camels along ancient routes through shifting sand dunes, experiencing history and culture intertwined with the desert landscape.</p>

<p style="margin-left:36pt;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hiking to Hidden Oases: Explore rugged terrain to uncover lush green paradises hidden within the desert, offering tranquility and life-giving waters.</p>

<p style="margin-left:36pt;">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Off-Road Desert Driving: Navigate challenging sand dunes and rugged landscapes in 4x4 vehicles for an exhilarating adventure that connects you deeply with the untamed wilderness.</p>

<p>In the Gobi Desert, adventure beckons from every horizon, promising unforgettable moments and a profound connection with one of the world&#39;s most awe-inspiring landscapes.</p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Celestial Symphony</strong></span></h3>

<p>Step into Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert, where each evening paints a natural masterpiece. Breathtaking sunsets streak the sky with crimson, orange, and gold, casting reflections across tranquil waters or rugged landscapes. As twilight deepens, city lights fade, revealing a pristine night sky ablaze with stars.</p>

<p>Far from urban glare, the Gobi Desert is a sanctuary for celestial enthusiasts. Constellations emerge in full glory, captivating stargazers and astrophotographers alike. It&#39;s a chance to witness the universe in its purest form, where each twinkling light tells a story of cosmic wonder and endless possibilities.</p>

<p>Experience the spectacle of sunset and night skies in the Gobi Desert, where nature&#39;s beauty unfolds and the stars above invite contemplation of the cosmos. Here, you can stay in a &quot;millions of stars&quot; hotel, far from the typical luxury, yet offering an unparalleled connection with the natural world.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Exploring Mongolian Cuisine in the Gobi Desert</strong></span></h3>

<p>Delve into the heart of Mongolian cuisine, a culinary journey shaped by nomadic traditions and the rugged Gobi Desert. Dairy products like airag, suutei tsai, yogurt, and cheese are staples, reflecting a deep connection to the land. Meat is central, with dishes like bansh, buuz, and khorkhog showcasing mutton, beef, and occasionally horse meat for hearty sustenance in harsh conditions.</p>

<p>Grains like wheat and barley become staples such as bread and noodles, providing essential carbohydrates. Wild foods from the Gobi, including herbs and plants, add unique flavors and nutritional diversity. Travelers on Gobi Desert tours can enjoy authentic Mongolian meals, each dish a testament to cultural heritage and adaptation to the environment. Whether dining in a ger camp or amidst the desert, every bite tells the story of Mongolia&#39;s culinary richness and the resilience of its people.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3 align="center" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Gateway to Adventure</strong></span></h3>

<p>Embarking on a journey to Mongolia&#39;s captivating Gobi Desert is surprisingly accessible with several convenient options for travelers:</p>

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	<li>Guided Tours from Ulaanbaatar:
	<ul>
		<li>Organized tours from Mongolia&#39;s capital offer diverse itineraries lasting from a few days to over a week.</li>
		<li>Tours typically include transportation via robust 4x4 vehicles or domestic flights, accommodation in ger camps or tents, meals, and knowledgeable guides.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>Transportation Choices:
	<ul>
		<li>Domestic Flights: Direct flights from Ulaanbaatar to Dalanzadgad near the Gobi Desert provide a swift option. Further transport arrangements can then be made locally.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
</ul>

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			'body' => '<p><strong>Overview</strong><br />
The Naadam Festival, also known as &quot;Eriin Gurvan Naadam&quot; (the Three Manly Games), is Mongolia&#39;s largest and most significant celebration. Held annually in mid-July, this event dates back centuries and features traditional Mongolian sports, including wrestling, horse racing, and archery. For tourists, attending Naadam offers a unique glimpse into Mongolia&#39;s rich cultural heritage and an immersive experience in the country&#39;s vibrant traditions.</p>

<p><strong>History and Significance</strong><br />
Naadam&#39;s origins trace back to the era of Genghis Khan, serving as both a celebration of the nation&rsquo;s strength and a way to train warriors. Today, Naadam commemorates Mongolia&#39;s independence and the formation of the Mongolian People&#39;s Republic in 1921. The festival is not just a sports competition; it&rsquo;s a celebration of Mongolian identity and cultural pride.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Naadam_festival_opening_mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong>Key Activities and Events</strong></p>

<ol>
	<li><strong>Opening Ceremony</strong><br />
	The Naadam Festival kicks off with a grand opening ceremony at the National Sports Stadium in Ulaanbaatar. This event features traditional music, dances, parades, and an elaborate display of Mongolia&rsquo;s military history. The opening ceremony is a spectacle of color and culture, providing a captivating start to the festivities.&nbsp;</li>
	<li><strong>Wrestling (B&ouml;kh)</strong><br />
	Wrestling is the most prestigious event in Naadam. Hundreds of wrestlers from across the country compete in a knockout tournament. Matches are accompanied by traditional songs and rituals, and the wrestlers wear distinctive costumes called &quot;zodog&quot; and &quot;shuudag.&quot; Watching these matches offers insight into Mongolia&rsquo;s deep respect for strength and endurance.</li>
	<li><strong>Horse Racing</strong><br />
	Unlike Western horse racing, Mongolian horse races during Naadam cover vast distances, often between 15 to 30 kilometers. The jockeys are typically children aged 5 to 13, showcasing their extraordinary riding skills. The races are held in the open steppe, providing a dramatic and picturesque setting for the event.</li>
	<li><strong>Archery</strong><br />
	Archery competitions at Naadam demonstrate the traditional skills of Mongolian warriors. Archers, both men and women, use a &quot;compound&quot; bow, aiming at small targets from a significant distance. The sport is steeped in ritual and tradition, with competitors wearing traditional attire.</li>
	<li><strong>Traditional Games and Cultural Performances</strong><br />
	Besides the main sports, visitors can enjoy various traditional games such as anklebone shooting (shagai) and performances including folk songs, dances, and throat singing. These activities allow tourists to experience Mongolia&rsquo;s cultural diversity and artistic heritage.</li>
</ol>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Naadam_opening_ceremony_horse_riders.jpg" /></p>

<h2><span style="font-size:22px;"><strong>Practical Information for Tourists</strong></span></h2>

<ol>
	<li><strong>When to Visit</strong><br />
	The Naadam Festival officially takes place from July 11 to 13. However, related events and celebrations can start a few days earlier and last a few days longer. Arriving in Ulaanbaatar a couple of days before the festival begins will ensure you don&rsquo;t miss any preliminary events.&nbsp;</li>
	<li><strong>Where to Stay</strong><br />
	Ulaanbaatar offers a range of accommodation options from luxury hotels to budget hostels. Booking well in advance is recommended due to the high influx of tourists during Naadam. Some popular options include the Shangri-La Hotel, Blue Sky Hotel, and Kempinski Hotel Khan Palace.</li>
	<li><strong>Getting There</strong><br />
	Direct flights to Ulaanbaatar are available from several major cities, including Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Istanbul,&nbsp;Tokyo, and Seoul. Chinggis Khaan International Airport is the primary gateway to Mongolia.</li>
	<li><strong>Tickets and Entry</strong><br />
	Tickets for the Naadam opening ceremony and main events at the National Sports Stadium can be purchased online or through travel agencies. It&rsquo;s advisable to buy tickets early as they sell out quickly. Many travel packages also include tickets as part of the itinerary.</li>
	<li><strong>Local Customs and Etiquette</strong><br />
	Respect local customs by dressing modestly and asking for permission before taking photographs of people. Learning a few basic Mongolian phrases, such as &quot;Sain baina uu&quot; (Hello), &quot;Bayarlalaa&quot; (Thank you) and &quot;Saikhan Naadaarai&quot; (Happy Naadam)&nbsp;will be appreciated by locals.</li>
	<li><strong>Health and Safety</strong><br />
	Ulaanbaatar is generally safe for tourists, but it&rsquo;s always wise to take common precautions such as safeguarding valuables and staying aware of your surroundings. Drink bottled water to avoid potential stomach issues, and be prepared for a range of weather conditions.</li>
</ol>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Naadam_festival_parad.png" /></p>

<p><strong>Additional Attractions</strong><br />
While in Mongolia, consider exploring other attractions such as the Gobi Desert, the ancient capital of Kharkhorin, and the serene beauty of Lake Kh&ouml;vsg&ouml;l. These destinations offer a broader understanding of Mongolia&rsquo;s diverse landscapes and cultural heritage.</p>

<p>The Naadam Festival is a perfect blend of sport, culture, and history, making it a must-visit event for any traveler to Mongolia. By immersing yourself in this vibrant celebration, you&#39;ll gain a deeper appreciation for the Mongolian spirit and way of life. Plan ahead, embrace the adventure, and enjoy the timeless traditions of the Land of the Eternal Blue Sky.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Naadam_close.png" /></p>

<h2>&nbsp;</h2>

<h2><span style="font-size:22px;"><strong>Difference Between Mongolia&#39;s State Festival and Local Festivals:</strong></span></h2>

<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><strong>- Mongolia&#39;s State Festival (Naadam)</strong></span></h3>

<ol>
	<li><strong>Scale and Significance:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>National Importance:</strong> Naadam is Mongolia&#39;s most significant national festival, celebrated on a grand scale across the entire country.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Government Involvement:</strong> The state festival is organized with the involvement of the government, including the President and other high-ranking officials.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="2"><strong>Location and Timing:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Location:</strong> The main celebrations are held in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city, particularly at the National Sports Stadium.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Date:</strong> The festival officially takes place annually from July 11 to 13.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="3"><strong>Activities:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Main Events:</strong> Known as the &quot;Three Manly Games,&quot; the main events include wrestling, horse racing, and archery.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Cultural Events:</strong> The festival features elaborate opening and closing ceremonies, cultural performances, concerts, and traditional games.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="4"><strong>Participants:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Elite Competitors:</strong> The top wrestlers, horse racers, and archers from all over Mongolia come to compete.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>International Audience:</strong> It attracts both national participants and a significant number of international tourists.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="5"><strong>Atmosphere:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Festive and Grand:</strong> The atmosphere is grand, festive, and highly patriotic, with extensive media coverage.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Naadam_horse_racing_game.png" /></p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;">&nbsp;</p>

<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><strong>- Local Naadam Festivals</strong></span></h3>

<ol>
	<li><strong>Scale and Significance:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Regional Importance:</strong> Local festivals are significant for individual regions, provinces (aimags), or even smaller communities like soums (districts).</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Community Focused:</strong> These festivals reflect local customs, traditions, and community pride.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="2"><strong>Location and Timing:</strong></li>
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<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Location:</strong> Held in various provinces and towns across Mongolia.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Date:</strong> Dates vary; many local Naadam festivals are held before or after the national Naadam to allow participants to travel to the capital for the main event.</p>

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<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Similar Events:</strong> Local festivals also feature wrestling, horse racing, and archery, though on a smaller scale.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Local Traditions:</strong> Additional activities may include local music, dance performances, and traditional ceremonies unique to the region.</p>

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<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Local Competitors:</strong> Participants are typically local residents, including young athletes and community members.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Local Audience:</strong> The audience mainly consists of local residents and some domestic tourists.</p>

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<p style="margin-left:54pt;"><strong>Intimate and Traditional:</strong> The atmosphere is more intimate and community-oriented, often with a stronger emphasis on local traditions and customs.</p>

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<p>In Mongolia, you can immerse yourself in stunning landscapes, rich culture, and unique nomadic experiences. Enjoy traditional folk music, savor local cuisines, and embrace&nbsp;the essence of Mongolian identity during the <u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news?tag=naadam-festival"><span style="color:#0066ff;">Naadam Festival</span></a></u><span style="color:#0066ff;">.</span></p>

<p>Feel the spirit of freedom through horseback riding and explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Cultural Landscape in Orkhon Valley, known for its scenic beauty and historical significance.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Ayan Travel, with two decades of tour operating expertise, tailors your Mongolia adventure. Specializing in photography and adventure tours, we guide you to witness the Naadam Festival in central Mongolia, explore the vast Gobi Desert, experience eagle hunting culture in west Mongolia, journey to the remote Taiga mountains to meet the Tsaatan, reindeer herding people, and shamans in northern Mongolia.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;">Your unforgettable and uniquely crafted journey awaits in Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tailormade"><span style="color:#0066ff;">Contact your travel specialist now</span></a><span style="color:#0066ff;">.&nbsp;</span></u></p>

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			'body' => '<p style="text-align: justify;">In collaboration with World Wildlife Day March 3, the Ayan Travel team has decided to share with you the photos of the adorable Pallas&#39;s cat <span style="text-align: justify;"><em>(Otocolobus manul)</em>&nbsp;</span>known as Manul,&nbsp; in its wild habitat, captured by&nbsp;Mongolian photographer Batzaya Choijiljav.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Surprisingly, most people don&rsquo;t know well that Pallas&rsquo;s cat shares their mountain habitat with its near-big cousin<span style="color:#008000;"> </span><u><span style="color:#0099ff;">S</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/photography-of-snow-leopards-in-mongolias-wild-west" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0099ff;">now leopards</span></a><span style="color:#0099ff;">.</span></u> if you are a photographer, planning a&nbsp;<u><span style="color:#0099ff;">wildlife&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tours/mongolia-photography-tours" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0099ff;">photo trip to Mongolia</span></a><span style="color:#0099ff;"><strong> </strong></span></u>for Snow leopards, you can capture these amazing wild cats on the same trip in Mongolia.&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify;">This adorable flat-faced and furry wild cat is very little known compared to other subspecies of the family&nbsp;</span><em style="text-align: justify;">Felidae</em><span style="text-align: justify;">.&nbsp;</span>Maybe you have seen these lovely wild cat&#39;s faces featured in many memes and viral videos. Mongolia&nbsp;is one of the few countries you can eyewitness&nbsp;these secretive and solitary wild cats in Central Asia.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="manul pallas cat mongolia" src="/uploads/Manuul_Pallas_s_cat_manul.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Pallas&rsquo;s cat is similar in size to a domestic cat but it looks much bigger because of its stocky build and its long and thick coat, fluffy tail, and flattened face.</em></span></p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Pallas&#39;s&nbsp;Cat -&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="color:#008000;">Quick Facts&nbsp;</span></span></h3>

<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Kingdom</span> -</strong><span style="color:#008000;">Animalia&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Name: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">Pallas&#39;s Cat</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Mongolian name: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">Мануул</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Scientific name: </strong></span><em><span style="color:#008000;">Otocolobus manul</span></em></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>IUCN Status:</strong></span>&nbsp; <font color="#008000">Least Concern</font></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Population:&nbsp; </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">Total estimated: 58,000</span></p>

<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Location</span>: </strong><span style="color:#008000;">Central Asia</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Habitats:&nbsp;</strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">mountains, steppe grasslands&nbsp;&nbsp;that has rocky outcrops., and semi-desert terrain.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Diet: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">In Mongolia Pallas&rsquo;s Cat eats a broad range of small mammals (Ochotona, Alticola, Meriones, Lasiopodomys, Cricetulus), insects, birds, reptiles, and carrion.</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Body Length: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">46-65 cm</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Weight: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">2.2-4.5 kg</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Mating Season: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">December to March</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Lifespan: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">8-11.5 years</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia pallas cat photography" src="/uploads/Manuul_manul_pallas_cat.jpg" /></p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Pallas&#39;s Cat in Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Although the Manul is found throughout central Asia, its habitat is a very specific and harsh environment. It lives on rocky steppes and stony outcroppings only and is rarely seen in lowland areas. It has been found at altitudes up to 4,800m but only in areas where deep snow does not accumulate.&nbsp;They make their dens in caves, crevices, or burrows dug by other animals.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">German naturalist Peter Pallas first described the furry wildcat in 1776. He named the kitty Felis manul.&nbsp; As its scientific name- (<em>Otocolobus manul)</em>, the word &lsquo;<em>manu</em>l&rsquo; comes from the Mongolian language&nbsp;and <em>Otocolobus</em> is Greek for &ldquo;ugly-eared.&rdquo;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Manuul_manul_pallas_cat_mongolia_wild.jpg" style="opacity: 0.9; text-align: center;" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Pallas&rsquo;s cat moves slowly but purposefully, concealing itself within its environment and blending into the background.</em></span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Pallas&#39;s cats are ambush hunters and spend much of their time hunting pikas as&nbsp;mouse hares, murines, ground squirrels, and voles are also eaten, and also small birds, grasshoppers and lizards, and other critters like gerbils, voles, hares, ground squirrels, birds, and young marmots. Pikas typically make up more than 50 percent of the cat&#39;s diet.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="mongolia wild cat manuul" src="/uploads/Pallas_cat_mongolia_photography_batzaya.jpg" /></p>

<p><em><span style="font-size:14px;">According to the IUCN Red List, the total population size of the Pallas&rsquo;s cat is estimated at 15,315 mature individuals. This species&rsquo; numbers are decreasing today and it is classified as Near Threatened (NT) on the IUCN Red List</span></em>.</p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Photographing the Pallas&#39;s cat in Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p>Palla&rsquo;s cats were believed to be primarily nocturnal, but are now being considered crepuscular in nature. Palla&#39;s&nbsp;cat&nbsp;is a shy and very antisocial animal. Without the help of an experienced local guide or researcher, it is almost impossible to encounter this rare creature in Mongolia.&nbsp;They have an extraordinary ability to hide within their own habitat. Even their markings and coloration allow them to easily blend with their surroundings which makes it uneasy to spot them without an experienced Mongolian wildlife photo tour agency.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/manul_pallas_cat_mongolia_wildlife.jpg" style="opacity: 0.9; text-align: center;" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Once we see the startling aspects of its appearance, it becomes clear that the Pallas&#39;s cat is in fact rather handsome and adorable.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

<p>If you especially wish to see and photograph Pallas&#39;s cats in Mongolia with their lovely kittens, it is better to plan your trip to Mongolia between May to August. Because they mate between December and March; the females typically give birth between the end of March and May. Kittens become independent by four to five months, until then&nbsp;they are with their mother.&nbsp;But hope you know the challenges of wildlife photography. You can spend a long time waiting for an animal to come into the spot and then it simply turns around, leaves and that&#39;s the end of it. However, these challenges are also part of what makes <u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/wildlife-photography-discover-mongolian-wild-side" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0099ff;">Mongolian wildlife photography</span></a></u> so rewarding.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="pallas cat photography in mongolia" src="/uploads/Manuul_manul.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, this&nbsp;rare creature is listed as a &#39;near-threatened&#39; species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).&nbsp; One of the main reasons for its decreasing population&nbsp;is the hunting for their fur and organs, which are used in traditional medicines. Moreover, it&#39;s one of the least studied cats in the world.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Manuul_mongolian_wildlife_tour_manul.jpg" /></p>

<p>We wish to increase both Mongolian and global awareness about Pallas&rsquo;s cats and build on the knowledge of their natural history and threats. As we gain knowledge of them, we can love, save and protect them. Today is World Wildlife Day. We hope you<strong><span style="color:#008000;"> #DoOneThing for Palla&rsquo;s cat</span></strong>&nbsp;can be either sharing this blog with those who don&rsquo;t know about this rare creature or making your own efforts in its conservation.</p>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The Future of Wildlife is in Our Hands.&nbsp;</span></span></strong></h3>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="mongolia snow leopard tour with batzaya choijiljav" src="/uploads/Mongolia_snow_leopard_tour_for_social_distance.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/photography-of-snow-leopards-in-mongolias-wild-west" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0099ff;">You may be interested in&nbsp;Story About Snow Leopard in Mongolia&rsquo;s Wild West&nbsp;</span></a></u><span style="color:#0099ff;">&nbsp;</span></p>

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			'body' => '<p>Are you a nature lover and planning your 2022 or 2023&nbsp;travel destination? Or want to travelling abroad and looking for something different rather than for sun and sand holidays? Here is why Mongolia should be on your&nbsp;nature bucket list.&nbsp;</p>

<p>We highlighted from our past natural journeys, wildlife, flower and bird watching tours in Mongolia. Let&#39;s&nbsp;take a look at our Top 5 Reasons to Make Mongolia Your Nature Experience.</p>

<h3><span style="color:#008000;">1. Mongolia, the least populated and nomadic country&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p>About three million people living in a country nearly the size of Alaska, Mongolia averages fewer than two people per square kilometer. National Geographic specialized Mongolia that one of the top nature travel destinations for its natural diversity in the least crowded place on earth.</p>

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<p>On the other side, the unindustrialized country, Mongolia&rsquo;s traditional pastoral lifestyle is one of&nbsp;important aspects of keeping the country&rsquo;s ecosystem.&nbsp;Mongol nomads have been migrating for centuries to centuries, searching for better pastures and the landscapes have&nbsp;been restored naturally. On the Cultural side, Mongols have deep traditions for respecting the Mother Nature and this culture is still seen in today&rsquo;s Mongolian life. So Mongolia is the ideal destination for nature lovers who escape from too touristy places.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#008000;">2. Mongolia, one of the most important birding destinations in the world</span></h3>

<p>Asia is on the rise of Bird-based tourism.&nbsp;According to avitourism.org statistics, Mongolia is determined as the most desired birding locations in the world and ranked on the 11th major bird destination. The land of nomads is also a home to roughly<strong> <a href="https://www.birdmongolia.com/birds" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">500 species of birds</span></a></strong>. Mongolian iconic nature reserves and magnificent lakes are the major habitant of those birds and offer all types of birding tours to naturalists, photographers and avi-tourists.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/white_naped_crane_880_462.jpg" /></p>

<p>There are two ways of exploring Mongolia in search of its birds. First, traveling as a wilderness camping with local nature guide. It gives not only beautiful opportunity to see your targeted birds but also see a number of good birds along with the trip, such as quite rare - Lammergeyer, Wallcreeper, Citrine Wagtail, Taiga Flycatcher etc. The other way is visit Mongolia during the migratory season to spot the migrants which pass through Mongolia in early spring and it gives us opportunities to catch up with some special rarities - these can well be <strong><a href="https://www.birdmongolia.com/bird-blog/bird-mongolia-shows-life-of-siberian-cranes-in-photos" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Siberian Crane</span></a></strong>, Baikal and Falcated teals, Red-necked Stint and many more. Add Mongolia on your birding bucket list!</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#008000;">3. Mongolia, a home to iconic wildlife and rare mammals</span></h3>

<p>In Mongolia you can find an enormous and wonderful diversity of colors, forms, behaviors. The country is a habitant of 136 species of mammal, more than 500 species of birds, 76 species of fish, 8 types&rsquo; amphibians and 22 reptiles. Endangered mammals are the Gobi bear, Mongolian Argali sheep, ibex, <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/photography-of-snow-leopards-in-mongolias-wild-west" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Snow Leopards</span></a></strong>, wolves, antelopes, wild horses and black tailed gazelles. &nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="mongolia wildlife nature travel destination" src="/uploads/Snow-Leopard-In-Mongolia-Photography-By-Batzaya-Choijiljav.jpg" /></p>

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<p>The trick with wildlife-watching is knowing where to go and managing expectations. Close encounters with wildlife are rare and hard to come by. But, you can improve your chances of an unforgettable experience by traveling to wildlife hotspots where animals are more tolerant of people. For mammal watchers, travelling to Mongolia in Early September is a good season.&nbsp;It probably got up to the mid-30s in the Gobi but there is no humidity and the nights are pleasant.<strong> <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/wildlife-photography-discover-mongolian-wild-side" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolia&nbsp;is a wildlife viewer&#39;s paradise waiting to be discovered!</span></a></strong></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#008000;">4. Mongolia gives you chance to view rare plants and wild flowers&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p>Around 975 species out of the 3,000 flowering plant species found there are utilized for traditional medicine in the country. Most of these plants are wild and are adapted to the extreme weather conditions in the country. Traveling to the Mongolian Altai, Gobi Altai, and the Khangai regions to find many of these native plant species. &nbsp;Among the native <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/early-spring-wildflowers-in-mongolia-terelj-national-park" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">plant species of Mongolia</span></a></strong> which need to be conserved are; the silver spike Siberian trout lily, hoary yellow cress, spreading bed-straw, and the Siberian apricot. Most of the zones of the country have been classified as natural reserves and protected areas as a measure towards the conservation of biodiversity.</p>

<p><img alt="flower viewing tour destination Mongolia" src="/uploads/Mongolia nature travel detination - flower watching tour.jpg" /></p>

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<p>For medicinal plant travelers, Mongolia is like a paradise. Mongolian traditional medicine has always played a major role in the country which based on the experiences of nomadic people, has its own unique medical theory, techniques and medications. Some aspects of Mongolian folk medicine&mdash;along with elements from other Asian systems, such as Tibetan medicine.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#008000;">5. Mongolia, a country of diverse landscapes, deserts, mountains, steppes</span>&nbsp;</h3>

<p>Picturesque Mongolia is hotspot for adventure enthusiasts and nature lovers. Spending your time in spectacular natural scenery such as an exotic <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/10-reasons-you-must-travel-to-mongolian-gobi-desert" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Gobi desert</span></a></strong>, ragged<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/10-reasons-to-visit-mongolian-altai-mountains" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> <strong>wild mountains</strong></span></a>, <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/photos-of-the-most-beautiful-lakes-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">pristine Lakes and wetlands</span></a></strong>, great open steppes that are the delight of those who enjoy being immersed in them.</p>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="color:#008000;">Join Nature guides, eat organics, and stay in eco-lodges in Mongolia</span></h3>

<p>Sometimes we just need to unplug and relax, whether that means, going somewhere remote, sleeping in peaceful nature, having camp food, enjoying beautiful scenery, or getting active in a <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/national-parks-of-mongolia/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">national park</span></a>.</strong></p>

<p>Take time for you to feel that and wander through Mongolia to reconnect with nature and explore the areas diverse eco-system. Your local nature guide will share the knowledge and wisdom of their ancestors. <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news?tag=nature" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolian nature journeys</span></a></strong> give you chances to speak to the ancestors struggles to survive and overcome the harsh winters while living off this rugged land. Accommodating in traditional dwelling Ger, experiencing centuries old culture, having healthy organic foods in Mongolia as a nature traveler.&nbsp;</p>

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			'body' => '<p>Have you made up your 2019 travel plans? Not yet, We, The Ayan Travel, one of best travel agencies in Mongolia, offer you great deals of travel Mongolia ideas by our Mongolia Events 2019-Monthly Travel Guide for your reference. Believe us, Mongolia is fascinating and totally lives up to the hype. From enjoying famous Naadam Festival in July to helping nomads&#39; daily life in spring time, photographing wild horses in the NP to experiencing centuries old traditions during Lunar New Year and much more great adventures await you in Mongolia and should be on your 2019 bucket list!</p>

<p>This monthly event calendar can help you to create your travel plan to Mongolia, choose interesting events and find only your own adventure from seasonal activities with us.</p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Travel Mongolia in January</span></span></strong></p>

<p>No wonder, January brings us countless opportunities of travel in new-year and ideal time for making travel plan. Especially if you travel in Mongolia in January, luckily considered quitter than other months and the price is lower than usual, is the perfect time for chilly climes and real winter adventures in wild nature who wants powdery fresh snow with plus nomadic winter life.</p>

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<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>January Best Destination</strong></span></p>

<p>We suggest you to visit Hustai National Park and Terelj National Parks&nbsp; Hustai National Park and Terelj National Parks&nbsp; for photographing, horse riding, hiking in the fresh air and exploring beautiful winter wildlife.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/january mongolia calendar.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>January temperatures in Mongolia:&nbsp; -15<sup>0</sup>C to -25<sup>0</sup>C; at nights dropping to -23<sup>0</sup>C to -33<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/january event mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Read more about January in Mongolia:&nbsp;</span>&nbsp; -&nbsp; <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolia-photos-taken-in-january" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolia Photos taken in January</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/10-photos-that-show-true-mongolian-winter-by-batzaya-choijiljav" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">10 Photos that show true Mongolian winter life</span></a></p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/january mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">See Our Our Suggested Tours:</span> -&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/weekend-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Weekend Tour 3 Days</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/cultural-and-conventional-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Cultural and Conventional Tour 6 days</span></a></p>

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<p><span style="color:#B22222;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><strong>Travel Mongolia in February</strong></span></span></p>

<p>Winter is moving along, it is time to take advantage of your warm outwear that you might have bought yourself or received as a gift, in February in Mongolia, you will have a great chance to feel aspects of Mongolian traditions and customs connected with nomadic life.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/Event calendar Mongolia february.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>February temperatures in Mongolia: generally sunny, day time:&nbsp; -10<sup>0</sup>C to -12<sup>0</sup>C ; at nights dropping to the -22<sup>0</sup>C to -28<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>The Events in Mongolia in February</strong></span></p>

<p>Lunar New Year- Tsagaan Sar&nbsp; 2019 which is going to be held on February 4-6 offers you have the opportunity to visit Mongolian family, see ways of their living, how they respect older people and families and traditional wrestling and traditional games.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and vacations calendar" src="/uploads/febraury event mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia annually travel calendar " src="/uploads/february mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination</span> -&nbsp; Elsen tasarkhai Sand Dune, Orkhon Valley-Erdene-zuu monastery, Khuisiin Naiman Nuur</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">More Topics</span> - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/tsagaan-sar-the-main-celebration-of-the-mongols" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Tsagaan Sar-Main celebration of Mongols</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Suggested Tours </span>- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/lunar-new-year-or-tsagaan-sar-2019" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Lunar New Year or Tsagaan Sar celebration 2019</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/4-day-photo-tour-in-mongolia-ayan-travel" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">4 day</span><span style="color:#800000;"> Photography tour in Mongolia</span></a></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Travel Mongolia in March</span></span></strong></p>

<p>It is obviously month of spring in the calendar but March in Mongolia can offer you the chance to witness both winter and spring beauties together.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/mongolia event calendar march.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>March temperatures in Mongolia: generally sunny, day time:&nbsp; -3<sup>0</sup>C to 8<sup>0</sup>C; at nights dropping to -5<sup>0</sup>C to -10<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>The Events in Mongolia in March</strong></span></p>

<p>If you travel to Mongolia in March, you can discover the joy of <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/journey-to-the-ice-festival-on-khovsgol-lake-in-northern-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">winter at Ice Festival 2019 at frozen Khovsgol Lake</span></a>,&nbsp; feel the taste of <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolian-eagle-festival-2019-date" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Spring Golden Eagle </span><span style="color:#800000;">Festival&nbsp;</span></a> near Ulaanbaatar and experience winter Gobi Desert of Mongolia by <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/ten-thousand-camel-festival" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Thousand Camel Festival</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">,</span> do it all in March.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia travel calendar Events and festivals mongolia" src="/uploads/march event mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia travel calendar Events and festivals mongolia" src="/uploads/march mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination </span>- Khovsgol Lake-Northern Mongolia, Chinggis Khaanii Khuree Complex in Tuv province, Bulgan village-Umnugobi province</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Read More Topics about March in Mongolia:</span> - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/journey-to-the-ice-festival-on-khovsgol-lake-in-northern-mongolia">Journey to the Ice Festival in Northern Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/incredible-photos-from-spring-golden-eagle-festival" target="_blank">&nbsp; &nbsp; - Incredible Photos from Spring Golden Eagle Festival</a></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Our Suggested Tours:</span> - <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/winter-festivals-tour-mongolia" target="_blank">Mongolia Winter Festival 2019 tour</a></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>Travel Mongolia in April</strong></span></span></p>

<p>If you travel around April in Mongolia, it is important time for nomads to welcome new-born baby animals and great chance to deep know about nomadic life at their busiest time of the year. Mongolian spring is windy, sometimes stormy, particularly in the Gobi desert. Another attraction of this month is spring bird migration -dozens of species of birds have left their winter homes and are embarking on their annual journey in almost every corner of the country as part of spring migration.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/mongolia event calendar_april.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>April temperatures in Mongolia: day time: -3<sup>0</sup>C to +12<sup>0</sup>C;&nbsp; at nights: -10<sup>0</sup>C to +2<sup>0 </sup>C</em></span></p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia travel calendar Events and festivals mongolia" src="/uploads/april event mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia travel calendar Events and festivals mongolia" src="/uploads/april mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination </span>- Nomad families in Central Mongolia,</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Read More Topics about April in Mongolia: </span>-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/things-to-do-in-spring-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> Things to do in Spring in Mongolia</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/early-spring-wildflowers-in-mongolia-terelj-national-park" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Early Spring Flowers in Mongolia</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Our Suggested Tours </span>- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-land-of-nomadic-heritage-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolia land of </span><span style="color:#800000;">nomadic</span><span style="color:#800000;"> heritage tour</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/hiking-in-hustai-national-park-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Hiking in Hustai National Park tour&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></a></p>

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<p><strong><span style="color:#B22222;"><span style="font-size:24px;">Travel Mongolia in May</span></span></strong></p>

<p>Whether you are nature lover or culture junkie, May in Mongolia is warm travel friendly weathered month for visitors and the perfect time to watch beautiful early flower blooming and rare spring birds&#39; migration that can only be seen in this wonderful land of nomadic people.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/mongolia evemt calendar may.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>May temperatures in Mongolia: sunny, day time: +5<sup>0</sup>C to +10<sup>0</sup>C; at nights it drops to the 0<sup>0</sup>C to +2<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>The Events in Mongolia in May</strong></span></p>

<p>As one of most travel friendly months of the year, May in Mongolia can give opporttunies of showing unchanged wildlife and nature phenomena with cultural Yak Festival in in rhe Gobi desert and chances to challenge your running ability in Ulaanbaatar marathon.</p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia travel calendar Events and festivals mongolia" src="/uploads/may event mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia travel calendar Events and festivals mongolia" src="/uploads/may mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination </span>- Gun Galuut Nature Reserve, Khongor Sand Dune in Umnugobi</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Read More Topics about May in Mongolia:</span> - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/hiking-in-hustai-national-park-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Birds in Hustai National Park</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolia-adventure-travel-destination" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;Why Mongolia is Adventurous destination</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Our Suggested Tours:</span> - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/short-trip-to-gun-galuut-nature-reserve" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Short Tour to Gun Galuut Nature Reserve</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/bird-watching-in-the-western-provinces-mongolia-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> Bird watching in the </span><span style="color:#800000;">wetsrn</span><span style="color:#800000;"> provinces of Mongolia</span></a></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Travel Mongolia in June</span></span></strong></p>

<p>Are you planning for your June escape or looking for somewhere more exotic? June in Mongolia is the right time to take advantages of sunshine, warm air and balmy breeze on endless Mongolian steppes and awe-inspiring mountain areas.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/mongolia event calendar june.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>June temperatures in Mongolia: generally sunny, day time:&nbsp; +14<sup>0</sup>C to +19<sup>0</sup>C; at nights:&nbsp; +6<sup>0</sup>C to +8<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>The Events&nbsp; in Mongolia in June</strong></span></p>

<p>June is one of the best times to recommend for you to travel in Mongolia. The colorful and pleasant month of the year when you can catch several events such as Mongolian Ultra Gobi Marathon, Hunnu Music Festival and Nomadic Naadam near Ulaanbaatar, the capital city.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="The Events in Mongolia in May  As one of most travel friendly months of the year, May in Mongolia can give opporttunies of showing unchanged wildlife and nature phenomena with cultural Yak Festival in in rhe Gobi desert and chances to challenge your running ability in Ulaanbaatar marathon." src="/uploads/june event mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Events and Festivals in Mongolia " src="/uploads/june mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination</span> - Orkhon Valley, Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur in Arkhangai province, Ugii Lake</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">More Topics</span> - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/events-in-june-in-mongolia" target="_blank">Events in June in Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/15-photos-that-prove-why-mongolia-is-simply-awesome">15 photos that prove why Mongolia is simply awesome</a></p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/tips-for-the-first-time-travelers-in-mongolia" target="_blank">Tips for the first time travelers in Mongolia</a></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Suggested Tours </span>- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-overland-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolia Overland Tour</span></a></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Travel Mongolia in July</span></span></strong></p>

<p>Are you looking for an interesting way to make your summer holiday longer with outdoor festivals and activities? Choose Mongolia where extended daylight gives you explore Mongolia&#39;s top travel attraction, the highlight festival of the year -Naadam Festival and Choose Mongolia in July when it is most pleasant time to visit a nomadic family and explore wonderful ever-changing nature and wildlife.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/mongolia evemnt calendar july.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>July temperatures in Mongolia:&nbsp; day time: +18<sup>0</sup>C to +26<sup>0</sup>C ; at nights:&nbsp; to +8<sup>0</sup>C to +10<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>The Events in Mongolia in July</strong></span></p>

<p>July is considered highlight month of Mongolian Events because of Naadam Festival, Olympic games of Mongols. To experience unforgettable tour, make sure to include historical and cultural events as Mongolian National Costume Festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian Nomadic Culture Festival in Zavkhan province, Mongolian Steppe Marathon in Khui Doloon Khudag near the capital city, Sand festival in western Mongolia, Tsaatan Festival at Khovsgol lake and so on.</p>

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<p><img alt="Events and Festivals in Mongolia " src="/uploads/july mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination</span> - Central Mongolia, Northern Mongolia, Western Mongolia, Eastern Mongolia, Southern Mongolia</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Read More Topics</span> - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-events-in-july-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Events in July- don&#39;t miss out</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/what-to-know-about-naadam-festival-before-you-attend" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">What to know about Naadam Festival before you attend?</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/outstanding-photos-of-mongolian-naadam-festival"><span style="color:#800000;">Outstanding photos of Naadam festival</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Our Suggested Tours </span>- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-highlights-tour-with-naadam-festival" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolia Highlight tour with Naadam festival</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/Local-Naadam" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Local Naadam festival at magnificent Khovsgol lake</span></a></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Travel Mongolia in August</span></span></strong></p>

<p>So amazing, August in Mongolia has plenty of events whether you are looking for religious festival or some unique sides of nomadic life.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/mongolia event calendar august.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>August temperatures in mongolia: generally sunny, day time:&nbsp; +15<sup>0</sup>C to 28<sup>0</sup>C at nights :&nbsp; +7<sup>0</sup>C to 15<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">The Events in Mongolia in August</span></strong></p>

<p>Don&#39;t miss Highlight event of August-Danshig Religious festival 2019, Sunrise to Sunset ultra marathon in Khovsgol lake and Mongolia Gobi Naadam called Khongor Khurd.</p>

<p><img alt="Events and Festivals in Mongolia " src="/uploads/august event mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Events and Festivals in Mongolia " src="/uploads/august mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination</span> - Khoshoo Tsaidam in Orkhon Valley, Elsen Tasarkhai sand dune, Ugii Lake,</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Read More Topics</span> - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/august-events-in-mongolia" target="_blank">Events in August in Mongolia</a>, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-highlights-tour-with-danshig-religious-festival" target="_blank">Danshig Religious Festival-Highlight of August</a>, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/why-is-local-horse-festival-worth-the-visit-in-mongolia" target="_blank">Why local horse festival is worth to visit in Mongolia?</a></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Our Suggested Tours </span>- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-highlights-tour-with-danshig-religious-festival" target="_blank">Mongolia Highlight tour with Danshig Religious festival</a></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Travel Mongolia in September</span></span></strong></p>

<p>So sadly, most travelers think that September marks the end of travel season. It&#39;s back-to-school and back-to-work.&nbsp; But if you can buck the trend, you&#39;ll find that September in Mongolia is when those with the savvy and the means pack their bags and embark on an adventure.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/mongolia event calendar september.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>September temperatures in Mongolia: day time: +8<sup>0</sup>C to +17<sup>0</sup> ; at nights: +0<sup>0</sup>C to +8<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">The Events in Mongolia in September&nbsp;</span></strong></p>

<p>If you would like to explore famous Mongolian Naadam festival in short time, this mini version of the festival organized by Mongol Nomadic camp offers you great opportunities to track ancient nomadic life, its presence, long tradition and deep culture of Mongols. You can take short trip to enjoy this Nomadic Naadam and have unforgettable memory of Mongolia&#39;s tradition within one day tour.</p>

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<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination</span> - Ikh Gazriin and Baga Gazriin Chuluu, Ongi Monastery,</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Read More Topics</span> - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/wildlife-photography-discover-mongolian-wild-side" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Wildlife Photography-Discover Mongolia&#39;s </span><span style="color:#800000;">wildside</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">, </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-photography-locations-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Best Photography location in Mongolia</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Our Suggested Tours </span>-<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/active-adventure-in-an-authentic-wilderness-tour" target="_blank"> <span style="color:#800000;">Active Adventure in an Authentic Wilderness tour - 11 days</span></a></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Travel Mongolia in October</span></span></strong></p>

<p>Summer is over in Mongolia, but it doesn&#39;t mean your travel in Mongolia is finished.&nbsp; Western Region of Mongolia will appeal you to discover its unique Kazakh Eagle Hunting tradition in October.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/event calendar mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>October temperatures in Mongolia: day time: +6<sup>0</sup>C to +19<sup>0</sup>C ; at nights: 0<sup>0</sup>C to -7<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">The Events in Mongolia in October</span></strong></p>

<p>Mongolian Golden Eagle festival is getting one of the most attractive events in the world where we organize photography and cultural tours. if you are planning your trip to Mongolia in October, this is the must-see event in Mongolia.</p>

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<p><img alt="Events and Festivals in Mongolia " src="/uploads/october mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination</span> - Bayan-Ulgii province, Yol Valley in Umnugobi province,</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Read More Topics </span>- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/2-days-at-the-golden-eagle-festival-2018-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Exciting 2 days at Golden Eagle festival 2018</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">, </span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/how-to-take-photos-at-golden-eagle-festival-in-mongolia"><span style="color:#800000;">How to take great photos at Golden Eagle Festival</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Our Suggested Tours </span>- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/eagle-hunting-festival-and-golden-gobi-tour"><span style="color:#800000;">Eagle Hunting </span><span style="color:#800000;">Fetsival</span><span style="color:#800000;"> and Golden Gobi tour 2019</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">, </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/golden-eagle-festival-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Golden Eagle Festival 2019 tour</span></a></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Travel Mongolia in November</span></span></strong></p>

<p>November is not the coldest period in Mongolia, weather condition and natural views have its own beauty and specialty.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/mongolia november event calendar.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>November temperatures in Mongolia: day time:&nbsp; -5<sup>0</sup>C to -17<sup>0</sup>C: at nights: -17<sup>0</sup> to -23<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">The Events in Mongolia in November</span></strong></p>

<p>There are several equestrian festivals are held around the world, but Steppe Winter Horse Festival in Khentii province, Eastern region has its own specialty and images. You have an opportunity to participate the horse racing competition if you want, we can make a bet for your competing. Another adventure in November is winter new trend -Extreme winter photo adventure to Northern Mongolia which is real exotic destination because of Tsaatan people- reindeer herders and wilderness Taiga.</p>

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<p><img alt="Events and Festivals in Mongolia " src="/uploads/november event mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination</span> - Khentii province in Eastern Mongolia and Khovsgol province in Northern Mongolia</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Read More Topics</span> - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/golden-eagle-festival-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Is it possible to travel to Mongolia in November? </span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -&nbsp; </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-winter-horse-festival-tour-ayan-travel" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Winter Horse Festival 2019 tour</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Our Suggested Tours </span>-<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-winter-horse-festival-tour-ayan-travel" target="_blank"> <span style="color:#800000;">Winter Horse Festival 2019 tour</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/extreme-winter-experience-photo-tour-in-northern-mongolia-mixed-group" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Extreme Winter photo tour in Northern Mongolia</span></a></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Travel Mongolia in December</span></span></strong></p>

<p>As the last month of the year, it reminds us that we have lots to do, but have limited time only. Savvy travelers are pretty good at knowing that December provide us perfect opportunity to take a trip. Airlines and hotels offer great deals which make wonderful travel before New Year.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia events and festivals calendar" src="/uploads/mongolia event calendar december.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>December temperatures: day time:&nbsp; -8<sup>0</sup>C to -18<sup>0</sup>C; at nights dropping to the -22<sup>0</sup>C to -29<sup>0</sup>C.</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>The Events in Mongolia in December&nbsp;</strong></span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">For those who wait Christmas all year round, spending Christmas far from home and experiencing completely different holiday from what you used to do, will be definitely adventurous and must have once in a lifetime memory. Mongolians have adopted Russian New Year and recently adding Christmas and have been celebrating it its own special way. Christmas is considered like religious holiday or more of the commercial event for the young generation to celebrate for fun. Another official event is Mongolian Independence Day.</p>

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<p><span style="color:#808080;">Recommended Destination </span>- Tsonjinboldog, Gorkhi-Terelj national park, Hustai national park</p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Read More Topics </span>-<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/night-at-choijin-lama-temple-museum-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> Night at Choijin Lama Temple Museum</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/ultimate-checklist-for-travel-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">10 Things You Need To Know - Traveler&#39;s Checklist Mongolia</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/how-mongolian-people-celebrate-christmas" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">How Mongolian people celebrate Christmas?</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#808080;">Our Suggested Tours </span>- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/a-true-nomadic-adventure-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">A True Nomadic Adventure Tour - 12 days</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/cultural-short-tour-with-kharkhorin-erdene-zuu-monastery" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Cultural</span><span style="color:#800000;"> short tour with Kharkhorin-Erdene Zuu Monastery - 6 days</span></a></p>

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<p>We hope you plan your next getaway with the help of our &#39;Mongolia Events 2019-Monthly Travel Guide&quot;. We make our recommendations on Mongolian best destinations and events you should explore and amazing things to do in each month. We make each month GREAT ONE!</p>

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<p>Save this monthly travel guide for your planning and share with your loved ones who may need it right now.</p>

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			'body' => '<p style="text-align: justify;">National parks are the prime locations of wild and untamed nature; in many countries, they are the most exciting places to visit and most worthy places to travel and it works the same in Mongolian National Parks. Mongolia has a rich and ancient history with sacred and protected areas since the 13th century and the first official declaration of sacred mountain Bogd Khan in 1778 while the United States&rsquo; first National Park-Yellowstone in 1872.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Unlike American national parks, one special thing while your travel in Mongolia is nomadic herders and their livestock living inside protected areas-the parks. Nomadic people also do protect nature and wildlife out there and keep close eyes to every nature consequences that might influence and hurt the origin of nature. It is the duty and tradition of nomadic people coming down from ancestors who believe the power of nature.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mongolia currently has 99 special protected areas divided into 4 different categories:&nbsp; protected areas &ndash;Strictly Protected Areas, National (conservation) Park, Nature Reserve, and Natural Monuments and equating to 17.4% of its territory. Mongolian protected areas are not so difficult to get to but most of them you will need local travel agencies to take you there, while others have their own agenda, favoring a lodge in a private reserve with insignificant forest or nature.<br />
And with the proper knowledge, transportation, visiting some national parks is relatively unaffordable, even required some permissions. Now, let us travel to the Best National Parks in Mongolia through amazing photos by Photographer Batzaya Choijiljav who traveled and photographed the most protected areas in Mongolia.</p>

<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Lake <span style="text-align: justify;">Khovsgol&nbsp;</span>National Park&nbsp;</span></h2>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Khovsgol National Park based on one of seventeenth ancient lakes of the world-Khovsgol was protected as National Park in 1992. The park area, 3500 square miles is bigger than Yellowstone in the USA, the first national park of the world- The freshest and deepest lake of Mongolia- Lake Khovsgol NP is hottest and must-visit travel destination of the country.&nbsp;<br />
The best way to explore this watery wonderland is boating, kayaking, and diving with a chance to view blue tidewater glaciers up close and see 9 species of fish inhabiting in the lake.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/5c88b08b-3bfc-4ffc-bb76-44f1a2f1e629-Khovsgol_national_park.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">With more time, you should seek out Taiga, quiet and serene, ideal for hiking and climbing&nbsp;in Khoridog Saridag and Bayan Mount Ranges with chances to spot wild animals such as ibex, Argali, wolf, brown bear, musk deer, Siberian moose, and many others along your way. If interested in birds, you can spot over 250 species of birds surrounding areas of the national park and especially in 4 islands named as Modon Khui, Khadan Khui, Modot Tolgoi and Baga Khui in the magnificent lake.&nbsp;These are just beginnings of the discoveries&nbsp;there, you can meet an ethnic group of Tsaatan reindeer herders, explore their way of life, an ancient belief of Shamanism and much more to experience.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Khovsgol_taiga_reindeer.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/khovsgol lake mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Travel to Khovsgol National Park</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The national park is reachable by domestic flight to Murun city takes about 1.5 hours from UB and then transfer by car to Khatgal for about 2 hours. By getting this way, you can easily get to Khuvsgul National Park within 4 hours. Another way to travel Khovsgol is by a car on new tarmac roads, 684 km from the capital city and it takes about 12-14 hours. If you prefer the train, you can take the daily train to Erdenet city and then transfer by car to Khovsgol.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/mongolia lakes khovsgol.jpg" /></p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span style="color:#800000;">- </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/journey-to-the-ice-festival-on-khovsgol-lake-in-northern-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Journey to the ice festival on Khovsgol Lake in Northern Mongolia</span></a></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/taiga-travel-diary-to-dashing-through-snow" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Taiga travel dairy to Danshig through </span><span style="color:#800000;">snow</span></a></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;-&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolian-top-3-tour-destinations-for-nature-lovers" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Mongolian top 3 tour destinations for nature lovers</span></span></a></p>

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<strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span style="color:#800000;">- </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/Local-Naadam" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Local Naadam festival at magnificent Khovsgol Lake</span></a></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/fishing-in-darkhad-valley-khuvsgul-province" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;Fishing in Darkhad </span><span style="color:#800000;">Valley ,</span><span style="color:#800000;"> Khovsgol </span><span style="color:#800000;">lake</span></a></p>

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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park&nbsp;</span></h2>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/gobi_Gurvan_saihan national park mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Gobi Gurvan Saikhan, the largest national park of Mongolia established in 1993. The park lies on the northern edge of the Gobi desert in southern Mongolia, 650 km from Ulaanbaatar city and 45 km from Dalanzadgad, capital of Umnugobi province. Most famous attractions in the park are Flaming Cliffs-Bayanzag, Yol Valley, Khongor Sand Dunes. The park is home to more than 52 mammal species including wild ass, Hamsters, Pikas, Gobi bear, Gerbills, snow leopard and endangered species such as Argali sheep and Siberian ibex.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/gobi desert mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/gobi desert photos.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The park is globally reputation of archeological discoveries of various species of dinosaur fossils and skeletons with its modern natural beauty of dry valleys, salt wetlands, springs, and Oases. You can camel riding adventure while discovering the beauty of Gobi, exploring nomadic life in the Gobi and tracking pre-historic sites.&nbsp;For the birdwatchers, this the paradise, you can spot more than 240 types of birds including Kestrels, Bearded Vultures, Lammergeyers and Altai snow-cocks also flourishing in the park.</p>

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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Travel to Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The park is easily accessible from Dalanzadgad that has daily flights takes only 1.5 hours from and to UB. You need a good car within destinations in the national parks and excellent driver who knows everything. Another way to get National Park almost 700 km from Capital Ulaanbaatar is travel by car while sightseeing and stopping wherever you want in vast steppe of Mongolia which takes approximately 10-12 hours.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-<span style="color:#800000;"> </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolian-gobi-through-the-lens-of-photographer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Traveler and Photographer took </span><span style="color:#800000;">photo</span><span style="color:#800000;"> journey through the Gobi Desert of Mongolia&nbsp;</span></a></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/interesting-facts-about-mongolian-camels" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Interesting facts about Mongolian camels</span></a></p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/golden-gobi-and-kharkhorin-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Golden Gobi and Kharkhorin tour</span></a></p>

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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Altai Tavan Bogd National Park</span></h2>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Tavan_bogd_natioanal_park_view.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/altai mountains mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Altai Tavan Bogd National Park is most visited park in western Mongolia, bordering with China and Russia containing with beautiful valleys, alpine lakes, rivers, glaciers and 5 highest peaks in Mongolia and the full spectrum of archeology with petroglyphs, standing stones, burial mounds and Kazakh cemeteries listed in UNESCO cultural heritage sites. This biggest concentration of petroglyphs with over 10,000, which is the Tsagaan Salaa site, is situated along a 15 km river valley. Horse riding and hiking in Altai Tavan Bogd National Park are a great way to see the area and considered as one of the best hikes in Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/altai tavan bogd mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Altai_mountains_climbing.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Climbing in Altai Mountain isn&rsquo;t the world&#39;s most difficult, but the weather can turn quickly up there so you should have some hiking experience or take a good guide. Mountain climbing is best for during late summer when weather is the most pleasant and warm, you need to have mountain equipment, the experience of climbing, experienced local guide and warm clothes to reach the peaks.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Kazakh Eagle hunter Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Many Kazakh people-eagle hunters live inside the park and there are many endangered species inside the park including argali sheep, ibex, grey wolves, red deer, black vulture, elk, snow leopards, Altai snow-cock, golden eagles, and many others. The lakesides of Khoton Nuur and Khurgan Nuur is the highlight of the park, with beautiful scenery, streams, valleys and fantastic place to authentically experience traditional nomadic Kazakh culture. The lakes are also decent fishing spot loaded with Lennox and offer fantastic rafting adventure.&nbsp;These are just beginnings of adventures you will explore in Altai Tavan Bogd NP, you can do more adventurous activities there.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/altai mountain tour.jpg" /></p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Travel to Altai Tavan Bogd National Park</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Due to Bayan-Ulgii&rsquo;s location is the westernmost and remotest park of Mongolia. You can take a flight to Bayan-Olgii, takes about 3 hours, which is available almost every day during summertime and twice or triple during other seasons. It is quite hard for getting the tickets during tourist high season and Eagle Hunter&#39;s festivals. If you can&rsquo;t get the ticket, you have to get to Altai Tavan Bogd National park by off-road minivan or jeep, almost taking 2-3 days to track 1636km from Ulaanbaatar. Also, it is not possible to travel alone or without connecting experienced tour agencies. You will need a couple of permissions to visit the park because of the location on borders with Russia and China. You will have to get military permits before heading to Bayan-Olgii and need some official papers done in Ulaanbaatar in advance. You will need time to manage and plan your travel in Altai Tavan Bogd National Park and hand your all works and worries to well-organized and experienced tour agency.</p>

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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Khorgo-Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur National Park&nbsp;</span></h2>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Khorgo- Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur NP named after extinct Khorgo volcano crator and TerkhiinTsagaan Lake is one of Mongolian highlights with attractive scenery and endangered fauna and flora. The park is surrounded by Khangai Mountains covered by peach and poplar forests rich in wild animals such as wild goat, deer, bear and as well as various species of birds.&nbsp; You will hike and horse riding around spectacular national park and climb Khorgo volcano covered with basalt.&nbsp;<br />
Water of the lake is said to be exceptionally pure, it is popular place for camping and fishing spot.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Terkhiin_tsagaan_lake.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/mongolia lakes.jpg" /></p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Travel to Khorgo-Terkh Tsagaan Nuur NP</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The only way to the NP is by overland car trip about 580 km far from UB takes approximately 9-10 hours. Within your travel, you can take time to spot other natural and historical sites along your way. Because NP is located in Arkhangai province where have many natural and historical beauties in the central region of Khangai Mountain.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Terkhiin_tsagaan lake mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<h2 style="text-align: justify;">Gorkhi- Terelj National Park</h2>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/terelj national park mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/terelj national park.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Gorkhi-Terelj national park is the closest national park about 75 km north-east of UB and ideal destinations for those with a short time to travel in Mongolia. The park is a 3rd largest protected area in the country established in 1993 and most spectacular parks with fauna filled forests, wide open valleys covered with wildflowers, dramatic rock formation and with 2 waterways of Terelj and Tuul rivers along the park. The park&rsquo;s most picturesque feature is its rock formations at top of the forest-covered mountains shapes like castles on the mountain. You can go hiking and climbing in these stunning mountains while luckily spotting wild animals such as elk, moose, bear and more. If interested in flowers, you will be captivated by sights of yellow, white, pink, and blue flowers in the wind bow you to like saying welcome. With more, you can horse and camel riding in wide valleys, driving around the park, camping in and visiting local families and rafting on Tuul River. Most popular attractions are giant Turtle Rock and Ariyabal Meditation Temple.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/terelj Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Travel to Gorkhi- Terelj National park</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Since the park&rsquo;s location closely to Ulaanbaatar, the cheapest way to get there is by public bus takes about 2 hours. The bus daily leaves at 4 pm from the Durven Zam on Peace Avenue and you can have bus drop along the park. But for next, you will have to walk and find everything for yourself. You can also take a taxi to the national park, with charge about US $ 35-40 for one way. For the rest, you will have to do walking, if you are not alone, it can be the fastest and cheapest way. If you want to travel quick and clever, it is best to connect with tour agencies with a comfortable car, good guide and experienced service included every activity you do in the national park.&nbsp;</p>

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<span style="color:#B22222;">Hustai National Park</span></h2>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Hustai NP Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/hustai national park photos.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Hustai National Park is one of the best managed national parks of Mongolia located in Tov Province, around 100 kilometers west of Ulaan Baatar. The park is a reserve in the UNESCO World Biosphere listing as Nature Reserves and upgraded as National Park relating to the reintroduction of famous for Przewalski&rsquo;s wild horse-only wild horse of the world. The park is pretty good for short time travelers who want to see the wild horse and wild life without going too far from Ulaanbaatar. You will not only see a wild horse but also have the chance to spot 44 known species of mammals including the red deer, Mongolian gazelle, Eurasian lynx and badger, gray wolves and fox.&nbsp;Moreover, the park is considered as one of the best bird watching spots in Mongolia offering 217 bird species such as the golden eagle, great bustard, black stork, whooper swan, and little owl. Hiking and horse/ camel riding will be also great ways to explore Hustai National Park.</p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Travel to Hustai National Park</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">You will travel on better-conditioned asphalt road for a couple of hours before reaching your destination. After arriving at Hustai National Park, you should take your time to explore extraordinary scenic spots where Asian wild horses graze and drink water. There is no public bus or other transportation available to the park. You will contact with tour operators with experienced guide and good car who they can arrange your visits to Hustai National Park.</p>

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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Gun Galuut Nature Reserve&nbsp;</span></h2>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Gun Galuut Nature reserve.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/gun galuut nature reserve mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Gun Galuut Nature Reserve is locally protected area in order to conserve world endangered animals and its diverse ecosystem lies on banks of Kherlen River, 130km southeast of Ulaanbaatar.&nbsp;The Nature Reserve is becoming one of the top ever-changed wildlife attractions in Mongolia where there offer natural beauty with habitant for some of the world&rsquo;s most rare and endangered species. The reserve is home to Argali- wild mountain sheep.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Only best time to spot Argali is during the mating season and usually, between October-November, they will quite often visible without embarrassment along the reserve.<br />
Moreover, the reserve is a bird lover&#39;s paradise where can spot globally rare species of White-naped Crane, Hooded Crane, Red Falcon, Black Vulture, Whooper swan, Black Stork, and Great White Egret and many others summering on lakes and rivers&rsquo; in the Reserve. You should bring your telescopes and binoculars to enhance your experience and to make your efforts worthy. For the photographers, it also offers deeper insights into wild animals with surrounding special places and nomadic families. For fishing adventure seekers, the reserve is crossed by many rivers including Kherlen River-longest of the country, Ayaga, Shinebulag, Galuutai Rivers and many others all rich with fishes. You should visit the reserve-truly extraordinary landscape harmonies with high Mountain, steppes, rivers, lakes, and wetlands as well as kept enough as its natural beauty. The reserve is one of the closest and hottest destinations of the country reachable by only 2 hours from UB. You can explore Chinggis Khan equestrian statue along your way. Within short time-one or two days trip is possible to explore the reserve.&nbsp;</p>

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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Ikh Nart Nature Reserve&nbsp;</span></h2>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/ikh nart nature reserve.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Ikh Nart is a nature reserve located in Dalanjargalan soum of Dornogobi province and established to protect the globally important population of Argali-wild sheep, Siberian Ibex, gazelles, black vultures, wolves, and other wildlife. Due to reserve lies within the transition zone between steppe with rocky outcrops and semi-desert you will chance to spot high diversity of plants and animals including 41 species of mammals. There are three natural springs in the park and one near Khalzan Mount is considered local health remedy.&nbsp;Ikh Nart also protects culture resources such as historic ruins, artifacts, burial sites, and petroglyphs and temple ruins from Stone Age, Bronze Age, Chinggis Khan Age and more. Photographing and spotting endangered animals on nature is a never-miss opportunity in the reserve. The reserve lies about 300km (190miles) southeast of Ulaanbaatar and takes about 4-hour drive on fine tarmac roads.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">If you&rsquo;re dreaming outdoor vacation filled with glacier lakes, animal encounters, towering rock formations on high mountains, endless steppe and desert with uniqueness sights and historical significance, you will enjoy exploring national parks, no matter what national park you choose, at one of above Best national parks in Mongolia and you will find picturesque landscapes and activities suitable for all ages and interests such as hiking, climbing, horse and camel riding, fishing and much more. As most worth visiting and most beautiful national parks in Mongolia, we recommend you a visit at least one of these in upcoming autumn and winter of 2019 and 2020 and more further.</p>

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			'body' => '<p style="text-align: justify;">Spring has&nbsp;officially arrived in Mongolia. It feels magical to stumble across delicate and colorful&nbsp;flowers in early spring, especially after Mongolian cold and long winter months. The days are starting to grow longer and signs of spring are beginning to show. At this time of the year, early spring wild flowers can be found in a range of environments such as woodlands, grasslands, river banks and mountain forests in Mongolia. Due to unpredictable weather change of Mongolia, spring time may differ by each year and blossom of wild flowers also follow the rule of nature.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mongolia is a home to thousands of species of wild flowers. While in you are travelling in Mongolia, you will definitely see and meet those beautiful, lovely and colorful wild flowers. Especially those early wild flowers give us sign of nature that spring coming in Mongolia.<br />
Here we introduce you&nbsp;10 early spring flowers ,written in Flower Guide Book in Gorkhi-Terelj National Park.</p>

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<h3><strong><span style="color:#800000;">1.&nbsp;Yellow Pasque Flower&nbsp; (Pulsatilla Patens Subsp Flavescens(zucc.) Zameilis)</span></strong></h3>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/yellow pasque flower mongolia.JPG" /></p>

<p>This perennial herb flowers towards the beginning of May to July. You will find it growing in larch and birch forests, forest fringes, pine forests, river valleys, Kobresia meadows, shrubberies, dwarf thickets, meadow, more rarely steppe slopes. In traditional Mongolian medicine, the roots are used for treating scurvy, broken bones and diarrhea.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>2. Pasque flower Pulsatilla Turczaninovii Kryl &amp; Serg</strong></span></h3>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/pasque flower mongolia.JPG" /></p>

<p>Herbs, perennial, 5-35 cm. Flowers blue-violet. Flowering and fruiting in May to July.&nbsp;You will see it growing more common in mountain-steppe, often sandy and stony lopes, waterside pebbles, pine forests, dry forest fringes,&nbsp;sandy and forb-grass steppes.</p>

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<h3><strong><span style="color:#800000;">3.&nbsp;Siberian larch (Larix Sibirica Ledeb)</span></strong></h3>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Pinaceae mongolia.JPG" /></p>

<p>Siberian larch&nbsp;trees to 40 m tall. Pollination May, seed maturity September to October. It can be found in mountain forests as main stand-forming species, sometimes in river valleys in a lower mountain belt.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>4. Edelweiss - Leonopodioides (Willd)Beauverd</strong>&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/edelweiss mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong>Edelweiss,&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;5-15 cm. Flowering and fruiting in May to September.blooms&nbsp;between&nbsp;from May to September.&nbsp; it is found&nbsp;from mountain steppe to mountain&nbsp;belt in Mongolia. Everyone knows that it is as a national symbol, especially of Romania, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Switzerland. According to folk tradition, giving this flower to a loved one is a promise of dedication. In ancient Mongolia, it was used to make a footpad for boots to help treat low blood pressure.&nbsp;</p>

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<span style="color:#800000;"><strong>5.Tiger Iris - Iris Tigridia Bunge Ex Ledeb</strong></span>&nbsp;</h3>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/iridaceae flower mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>Herb, perennial, 5-30 cm. Flowers dark blue, violet, or light purple. Flowering and fruiting in May to August. You can easily&nbsp;find it more in steppe debris and stony slopes, rocks and screes, sandy-pebble steppes.</p>

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<span style="color:#800000;"><strong>6. Blue Delphinium &amp; Larkspur -</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Delphinium Grandiflorum.L&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p>This perennial herb towards in May to October. You will see this more common in meadow and forb steppes, steppe and dry meadows in river valleys, forest meadows and fringes, light pine and birch forests.</p>

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<strong><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;7. Greater Celandine - Chelidomium Majus.L&nbsp;</span></strong></h3>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/papaveraceae mongolia.JPG" /></p>

<p>Herbs, perennial, 30-60(-100) cm tall. Flowers yellow. Flowering and fruiting from May to September. It can be found&nbsp;in larch forests, birch groves, waterside shrubberies, shady foot of rocks and screes, the bottom of the creek valley</p>

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<strong><span style="color:#800000;">8.&nbsp;Chickweed</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#800000;"> - Stellaria Dichotoma.L &nbsp;</span></strong></h3>

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<p>Herbs, perennial, 15-30(-60) cm tall. Flowers white. Flowering and fruiting ifromMay to August. Habitat is&nbsp;steppe dry debris and stony slopes, screes, rocks, sometimes on pebbles and sands.</p>

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<strong><span style="color:#800000;">9. Chinese stellera - Stellera Chamaejasmine.L&nbsp;</span></strong></h3>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/thymelaeaceae mongolia flowers.JPG" /></p>

<p>Herbs perennial, 20-50 cm tall. Flowers white, yellow, or red- dish purple. Flowering and fruiting in May to September.&nbsp; You will see this flower in stony and rocky steppe slopes, steppe and forest meadows, forest fringes, pastures.&nbsp;</p>

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<span style="color:#800000;"><strong>10. Bird Vetch - Vicia Cracca.L&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Dalii yagaan.jpg" /></p>

<p>This perennial herb towards in May to July. You will find it in forest and waterside meadows, meadow slopes, larch forests, birch groves, forest fringes, shrubberies, waterside pebbles, rock, and screes.</p>

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<span style="color:#800000;"><strong>11. &nbsp;Rhododendron - Rhododendron Dahuricum.L</strong></span></h3>

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<p>This perennial herb flowers towards in May to July. You will easily find it in larch and cedar pine-larch forests, and their fringes, birch forests, rocky slopes in forest belt. Mongolian believe that sitting in area of these flower is good at tiredness in spring, that&rsquo;s why people tend to search the flowers in spring. It is common names as Dalii Yagaan in Mongolia.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>About Flower Guide Book in Gorkhi- Terelj National Park</strong></span></h3>

<p>This simple flower guide book covers 50 plant species can be found in Gorkhi-Terelj National Park but also in mountain forest-steppe belt of Mongolia. The book was authored by doctor B.Oyuntsetseg and M.Munkhjargal and written in three languages of English, Japan and Mongolian with accurate picture description in 2016.&nbsp;All income of the book had been donated to kids&rsquo; orphanages named Sarnai&rsquo;s orphanage center and Magic land in Mongolia.<br />
This book is designed as pocket book specially dedicated every travelers, guides, interpreters and wild flower lovers who is travelling in Mongolia. Also it&nbsp;will help you to discover and identify wild flowers in the mountain forest &ndash;steppe in Mongolia.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>Where can you see these flowers?</strong></span></h3>

<p>Lovely spring &ndash;blooming flowers blossom with its beauty and richness of color in every corner of Mongolian mountain and forest-steppe and attracts with their unique formation and locations. You can easily see this early flowers in just outside of the city or while in tour in Mongolian National Parks such as Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, Hustai National Park, Altai Tavan Bogd National Park, Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park and Khuvsgul National Park. While in your hiking and trekking tour in Mongolia, you should never forget to take photos of these beautiful flowers blooming under the sunlight and blue sky of the country. Special interest tour idea of Flower watching in Mongolia gives you to recognize and learn the country&rsquo;s wild plants, especially colorful flowers, and relax in wind of green nature.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#4B0082;">Hope </span><span style="color:#2F4F4F;">your</span> <span style="color:#800000;">Mongolia tour</span> <span style="color:#000080;">will&nbsp;be</span> <span style="color:#FF8C00;">memorable </span><span style="color:#EE82EE;">and</span><span style="color:#A52A2A;"> </span><span style="color:#006400;">bloomy</span> <span style="color:#0000CD;">like</span> <span style="color:#800000;">these</span> <span style="color:#DAA520;">colorful</span> <span style="color:#006400;">spring</span><span style="color:#800080;"> flowers</span>.</strong></p>

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			'body' => '<p>Nowadays, People getting more interested in celebrity&rsquo;s travel, who they love and fan of, their travel destinations, want to know how they make it good, passionate about their photos shared on their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and maybe quickly choose up the next travel destinations from them. Searching back times, we have made some interesting facts of famous people&rsquo;s trip in Mongolia and how they managed and chose their destinations even during short business visits.</p>

<p>Maybe your loved star appears in center of Chinggis Khaan square and take selfie with Sukhbaatar statue and why not you come up and follow what she did. Everyone may want to follow and do same as what the star did, at least one time and it can make them even more and more happy. Star travel giving us major wanderlust, let&rsquo;s follow the celebrity&rsquo;s chosen travel destinations and find out what they did in Mongolia.</p>

<h3><strong><span style="color:#800000;">Julia Roberts&nbsp;</span></strong></h3>

<p>Hollywood actress Julia Roberts came to live among the nomads of Mongolia and discovered their special relationship with the wild horse in autumn of 1999. She did documentary which showed vital roles of the horse, usage in transportation, traditional drink fermented mare&rsquo;s milk and horse races which shows nomadic culture and religious festival. The original documentary title is wild horses of Mongolia with Julia Roberts and running time-55 min.</p>

<p><img alt="travel inspiration mongolia " src="/uploads/celebrities who traveled to mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong>What did she experience in Mongolia?</strong></p>

<p>She spent several weeks with a nomadic family, living exactly as the nomads does and quickly absorbed into the daily routine of nomadic life and even though they didn&rsquo;t understand each other&rsquo;s language. She was given quick tutorial on how to milk mare and learned to train horses for an annual horse racing. She also did not miss to visit Hustai NP to see wild horses known as Przewalski&rsquo;s horse. This cultural trip was the first celebrity driven documentary about Mongolian nomadic lifestyle and horses.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span style="color:#800000;"> &nbsp;-</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-land-of-nomadic-heritage-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> Mongolia-land of nomadic heritage tour</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/hiking-in-hustai-national-park-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Hiking in Hustai National Park tour</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/a-true-nomadic-adventure-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">True Nomadic Adventure tour</span></a></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>Michelle Rodriguez</strong></span></h3>

<p>Well known as Fast and Furious&rsquo; movie role, Hollywood actress Michelle Rodriquez traveled to western Mongolia to visit Golden Eagle Festival in 2014.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia travel ideas" src="/uploads/michelle rodriguez.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong>How did she experience Kazakh Eagle hunting tradition?</strong></p>

<p>She was staying in ger/yurt/ and eating like locals. As she expressed, it was search of feeling that we all forgot while living in common daily life and seeing only 13 year old girl from Kazakh eagle hunting family, beat out all the men participated in the festival. She liked riding horses, drinking Airag /fermented mare&rsquo;s milk/ and experiencing Mongolian nomadic lifestyle, Kazakh eagle hunting tradition, culture and their famous fascinating festivals.</p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="color:#800000;">- </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/eagle-hunting-festival-and-golden-gobi-2018-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Eagle Hunting festival and Golden Gobi -2018 Tour</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/golden-eagle-festival-2018-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Golden Eagle festival Tour</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/golden-eagle-festival-and-altai-mountain-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Golden Eagle festival and Altai Mountain tour</span></a></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>Jean Jacques Annuad</strong>&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p>Academy Award winning film director Jean Jacques Annaud visited Mongolia by an official invitation of the President of Mongolia Ts.Elbegdorj in 2015. He said that when he was reading &ldquo;Wolf Totem&quot; book, he liked the description of Mongolian customs. He spent seven years for making this film which is associated with Mongolian wild wolves.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia travel tips " src="/uploads/jean jack.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong>What did famous film director do in Mongolia?</strong></p>

<p>Although his visit schedule was only 2 days, he visited Hustai National Park to view wildlife, nature and Przewalski&rsquo;s wild horse. He expressed his feelings of admiring only kind of wild horses and nature wonder. He also tried Mongolian traditional dish Khorhog known as Mongolian barbeque.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span style="color:#800000;"> - </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/hiking-in-hustai-national-park-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Hiking in Hustai National Park tour</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/khustai-national-park-short-trip" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Hustai National Park short trip</span></a></p>

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<h3><strong><span style="color:#800000;">Monica Bellucci</span></strong></h3>

<p>Do you believe beautiful actress Monica Bellucci came to Mongolia? Some scene of her movie named &lsquo;The Stone Council were filmed in Mongolia. As showed in the movie, she traveled to the countryside and was looking for the solution to help her son.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia movies " src="/uploads/monica bellucci mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong>What did she do in Mongolia except movie?</strong></p>

<p>According to the travel agent, Monica Bellucci traveled to Terelj National Park and visited Gandan Monastery. Not many people know about her visits because of media was not developed in Mongolia at that time.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>Long Way Round Journey</strong>&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p>Over a decade ago Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman set out their epic 20,000 mile world motorcycle tour, crossing through twelve countries, starting in the UK, then through France, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Canada, and the US, ending in New York City in 115 days.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia long way round journey " src="/uploads/Long Way Round Journey .jpg" /></p>

<p><strong>What did they discover in Mongolia?</strong></p>

<p>They were riding through the remote parts of Mongolia and Siberia and crossing swollen rivers was one of the most demanding parts of the journey. Both of UK and Mongolian team travelled for a month and documented their trip, taking photographs, writing diaries by the campfire while on the journey.&nbsp;</p>

<p>They experienced culture and tradition of Mongolia by riding horse, wearing Mongolian traditional costume, eating Mongolian delicacy, staying with local nomads and sleeping in traditional yurt. Long Way Round is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel about two friends riding around the world together and against all the odds, releasing their dream.</p>

<p>If you are interested in traveling like them in Mongolia, you can rent motorcycle after you arrive in Mongolia. May be you think that you cannot travel by motorcycle, you have a chance to rent 4x4 vehicle or ATV and make your travel documentary.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="http://Mongolia Overland tour-2018" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> Mongolia Overland tour-2018</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/classic-mongolia-photography-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Classic Mongolia photography tour-2018</span></a></p>

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<h3><strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Richard Gere</span>&nbsp;</strong></h3>

<p>Hollywood actor Richard Gere have made several visits to Mongolia during last 20 years. Most of his visits connected with Buddhism and his private foundation work centralized in humanitarian crises rooted in injustice, inequality and intolerance. What did the famous actor experience in Mongolia?</p>

<p><img alt="richard gir in mongolia " src="/uploads/richard gir.jpg" /></p>

<p>As Buddhist, He was interested in Mongolian religion, its history and tradition around the country. He had made trip to Gobi Desert Mongolia where some believe the Gobi is the Ur-Region where all the world&rsquo;s mystical religion originated.</p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-<span style="color:#800000;"> </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/golden-gobi-and-kharkhorin-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Golden Gobi- Kharkhorin tour</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/golden-gobi-and-kharkhorin-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Golden Gobi- Orkhon valley tour</span></a></p>

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<h3><strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Steven Seagal&nbsp;</span></strong></h3>

<p>Steven Seagal, the famous American actor of the 90s and well known for his martial arts movies. Seagel first came to Mongolia in 2001 for getting support -his movie Genghis Khan and met his Mongolian wife Erdene-tuya as his interpreter. They tied the knot back in 2009 and have one son together. Since famous actor became Mongolian son-in law, his visits and tours have become numerous and getting public attention.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Why Mongolia attracts him?</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p>He really enjoys wearing Mongolian national costume &ndash;Deel in his daily life, even couple match with her wife. He loves riding horse and seeing horse racing in the countryside proud of Chinggis Khaan&rsquo;s legendary conquers in world&rsquo;s history. During the National Holiday Naadam festivals, Seagel and his family like to celebrate and spend time in Mongolia.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-<span style="color:#800000;"> </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/naadam-to-naadam-guided-photo-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Naadam To Naadam Guided Photo tour</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-highlights-tour-with-naadam-festival-2018" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolian Highlights tour with Naadam festival.</span></a></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-naadam-festival-2018-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> Mongolia Naadam festival Tour-2018</span></a></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>These are not all of the celebrities who traveled in Mongolia, there are many other stars and public figures traveled in&nbsp;Mongolia. With so many amazing locations to travel to, it is not so easy to decide exactly where to escape in vast land of Mongolia. Luckily, These Famous Celebrities are here to help with adventurous, wild world challenge and full of discovery in the unchanged nature.</p>

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<p>Mongolia is a home and guest place of rare and beautiful birds from all over the world. Why don&rsquo;t you travel to Mongolia and watch those amazing birds in Mongolia?</p>

<p>Perhaps, as humankind forever respected freedom and peace of birds when they fly in the vast sky without hindrance or cruelty. Somehow people are so delighted to be close to birds as they never cause them any harm. That&rsquo;s why there are many harmonious songs about bird&rsquo;s charming appearance and combinations of marvelous colors.</p>

<h3>There are about 223 species are found in Hustai national park</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">There are 487 species of birds in Mongolia and about 223 species are found in Hustai national park, one of 99 special protected areas of the country. The Hustai National Park, 95km far from Ulaanbaatar, is&nbsp;famous for Przewalski&rsquo;s wild horse &ndash;Takhi and other rare animals. As written in latest research, there are 223 species of birds of 119 genera, 43 families, and 17 orders have registered in Hustai National Park.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Black Stork.jpg" /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Black Stork</em></p>

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<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Bar_headed_Goose.jpg" /><span style="font-size:14px;"><em style="font-size: 11px;">Bar headed Goose</em></span></p>

<p>If you take a <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/bird-watching-in-the-western-provinces-mongolia-tour" target="_blank">bird watching tour</a> in Mongolia especially&nbsp;in Husati NP, you can see a lot of rare birds such as the Black Stork, Bar-headed Goose, Whooper Swan, Lammergeier, Himalayan Vulture, Saker Falcon, Eurasian Hobby, Amur Falcon, Great Bustard, Long-eared Owl and Penduline Tit.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Whooper Swam.jpg" /><span style="font-size:14px;"><em style="font-size: 11px;">Whooper Swam</em></span></p>

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<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Himalayan Vulture.jpg" /><em><span style="font-size:11px;">Himalayan Vulture</span></em></p>

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<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Saker Falcon.jpg" /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Saker Falcon</em></p>

<p>One of the biggest rivers in Mongolia, the Tuul, flows on the southern border of the park. Tuul river and its basins are excellent habitats for many species of water birds for breeding, grazing, and resting and roosting during spring and autumn migration.</p>

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<h2><strong>Spring Bird watching in Hustai National Park.</strong></h2>

<p>The frozen river and lakes are melting and all the lives of flora and fauna come back into resurrection and regrowth.</p>

<p>This years&rsquo; spring migration has already begun and is expected to continue through late May</p>

<p>Birds already on their epic odyssey include beautiful Greet Egret, Chinese Pond Heron, Whooper Swan, Swan Goose, Eurasian Wigeon, Falcated Duck, Peregrine Falcon, Black-billed Capercaillie, Black Grouse, Daurian Partridge, Demoiselle Crane, Eurasian Eagle-owl and many more according to the second edition of birds of Hustai National park.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Greet Egret.jpg" /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Greet Egret</em></p>

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<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Chinese Pond Heron.jpg" /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Chinese Pond Heron</em></p>

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<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Swan Goose.jpg" /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Swan Goose</em></p>

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<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Demoiselle Crane.jpg" /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Demoiselle Crane</em></p>

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<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Black Grouse.jpg" /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Black Grouse</em></p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Right now, dozens of species of birds have left their winter homes and are embarking on their annual journey in Hustai National Park as part of spring migration.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">In the coming weeks, even more, will spread their wings and follow the same route their ancestors once did. Another bonus to spring migration is that it occurs as a mass movement.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Spring is a particularly wonderful time for bird watching and as researcher says during the spring, the males have on their beautiful plumage to attract mates and also a high chance of seeing birds at their most vibrant.</p>

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<h2><strong>Fall bird watching in Hustai National Park</strong></h2>

<p>Autumn is a popular birding season because of migration, cooler temperatures and beautiful foliage that all add even more excitement to birding.</p>

<p>&nbsp;But where should you visit to see the best fall birds?</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">According to the editions of Hustai National Park, you can see various birds including Bean Goose, Little Stint, Temmick&rsquo;s Duck, Gadwall, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Black Kite, Long-legged &nbsp;Bazzard, Long-tied stint and many more.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Fall birds still need food, water and shelter, and finding habitats and birding hotspots that offer those features in abundance throughout the season will guarantee a great birding experience.</p>

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<h2><strong>Interesting facts about birds in Hustai National Park</strong></h2>

<p>Through research results, satellite collar on Black Stork that grew up in HNP showed that it visited Nepal, passing through the Himalayan snowcapped mountain range, flying 250 km on average per day, sometimes reaching 600km.</p>

<p>Furthermore, a Cinereous Vulture wing-tapped in HNP visited South Korea for the winter.</p>

<p>This is the way we believe birds are one of the most admirable groups of animals that exist, as they can visit anywhere in the world without the need for a visa.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/5c8b4c8f-39cc-4b3f-b4f2-48a3a2f1e629-Black Stork.jpg" /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Black Stork</em></p>

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<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Cinereous Vulture.jpg" /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Cinereous Vulture</em></p>

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<p><span style="text-align: right;">We invite you all in Hustai National Park to watch and photograph the rare birds. Choose Hustai National Park as Your Bird Watching Destination.</span></p>

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<p>If you are interested in other birding tours in Mongolia please check out the following tour or <a href="mailto:info@toursmongolia.com"><span style="color:#800000;">contact us</span></a> to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tailormade" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">customize it</span></a>.&nbsp;</p>

<p>-<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/short-trip-to-gun-galuut-nature-reserve" target="_blank"> <span style="color:#800000;">Birding in&nbsp;Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve</span></a></p>

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			'body' => '<p>Interested in travel to Mongolia in winter? And wondering what things to do in winter in Mongolia or searching Mongolian winter tour ideas? Here is the best winter trip suggestion to &lsquo;The Ice Festival Mongolia&rdquo; on the Lake Khovsgol. We travel to the north region of Mongolia to see and photograph the Ice Festival&nbsp;with our adventurer and photographer clients each year. For helping the fellow travelers and photographers, we are sharing our travel experience for the winter trip planning of Mongolia and photo shoots for the imagination of the festival through this article.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><em>Mongolian artists at the Ice Festival -2018</em>&nbsp;</p>

<h2><br />
When is Mongolian Ice Festival?</h2>

<p>The Ice Festival Mongolia is typically held on the first weekend of March each year. The Ice Festival of Mongolia, &ldquo;The Blue Pearl- 2018&rdquo;, was opened on the 3-4th of March, under the theme of &lsquo;Let&rsquo;s Love and Preserve Khuvsgul Lake&rdquo;, organized by the local community and government. If you need to know the date of the Ice Festival- 2024, please check our<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/about-mongolia/events-and-public-holidays/upcoming-events-and-festivals-mongolia" target="_blank"><u><span style="color:#0099ff;"> </span></u></a><u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/about-mongolia/events-and-public-holidays/upcoming-events-and-festivals-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0099ff;">Events and Festivals of Mongolia</span></a></u> page&nbsp;on our website.</p>

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<h2>What to see at the Ice Festival of Mongolia?</h2>

<p>At this exciting winter event, you can enjoy and explore Mongolian nomadic culture, traditions, customs, uncommon performance of shaman rituals, folk music and dance show, lifestyle exploration of reindeer herders, the<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/tsaatans-the-reindeer-people" target="_blank"> <span style="color:#800000;">Tsaatan people</span></a> along with artistic ice sculptures and natural beauty. Also there are some winter and traditional sporting competitions organized such as ice skating, ice sumo, horse sleigh racing, and ice uncle bone shooting/national game/. The people who gathered at the festival are well dressed in national costumes, which are so colorful, comfy and well suited the winter temperature and looks so photogenic.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><em>Mongolian men in their traditional winter costume, after the horse sleigh competition</em></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/mongolian man on ice festival.jpg" /></p>

<p><em>A local Tsaatan, guy from the taiga Mountains of Mongolia</em></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/folk dance on ice festival mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><em>Open-air&nbsp;performance on the ice of frozen lake.&nbsp;It challenges their abilities and the show was fantastic&nbsp;</em></p>

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<p><em>The warm atmosphere of the cold winter</em></p>

<h2><br />
Travel Tips for the Visitors to the&nbsp;Ice Festival&nbsp;</h2>

<p>Here you get the practical travel information from the basic travel needs to the winter photography tips while you are on Ice Festival of Mongolia. So, let&rsquo;s get started from the most asked questions/FAQ/ of travelers.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><br />
<strong>Where to stay when I joined in Mongolian Ice Festival Winter Tour?</strong>&nbsp;</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">It depends on the service of your chosen travel company. If you choose an experienced local tour operator, it would be no problem with the accommodation and its condition. Mongolian winter, especially at night time, the temperature typically drops to minus 20 Celsius degrees so both local and foreign visitors stay in Mongolian traditional dwelling, yurt, called Ger in Mongolian. It is the perfect accommodation for the cold winter, wood and coal burning stove is in the middle of yurt for the heating and furnished with the bed, desk, chair and other basic stuffs, so you can stay warm and cozy in it. Tourist Ger Camps are located near the shore of the Lake Khovsgol and full boards of meals. The local tour operator will book this accommodation for you before your arrival. Make sure some companies do not include the ger booking service, so it is better to double check or directly contact at the well experienced local Mongolian tour company.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Morning_ice_festivalCamp copy.jpg" /></p>

<p><em>Visitors stay in Mongolian traditional dwelling, yurt, called Ger in Mongolian-the perfect accommodation for the cold winter</em></p>

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<h3><strong>What to eat in Mongolia while I am traveling?</strong>&nbsp;</h3>

<p>As mentioned above, the tourist Ger camps provide meals for the guests who are staying there. Some camps offer international food menu and some of them provide their planned meals. You can reserve Mongolian traditional food if you want. The main dishes are khorkhog, the Mongolian barbeque, buuz, the steamed dumpling, huushuur, the fried dumpling like meal and warm soups with pasta, rice or bread. You are allowed to have meals in the ger- restaurant where also soft and alcoholic beverages are available which are made in Mongolia and imported products. Sure, warm water, coffee and tea are the must offered drinks for the cold weather. Note that, if you are some specific needs for food, such as if you are a vegetarian, may be having on diabetic or other food allergic problems, you should tell your tour organizer. They will make all good arrangements for you.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><br />
<strong>Getting to the ice festival of Mongolia</strong></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">For the winter trip in Mongolia, transportation is one of the most important things to consider, including domestic flights, tickets, and vehicles. The Lake Khovsgol locates 780 kilometers / 484 miles/ from Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. The weather and the road condition of Mongolia in winter time cannot be always good. So, you should choose the well-organized package tour that includes flight tickets, an experienced driver and a good car. The Ice festival is getting a more popular event in Mongolia and has been captivating international travelers and photographers. The numbers of both local and foreign tourists have been increasing in the last years and the domestic flight seats and ger camps are fully booked prior to the festival starts. So the tip is that the earlier booked flights and accommodation, the better. You can also hire the driver with the private car and get to the festival by public sleeping bus to the Murun city, the center of Khovsgol province /domestic plane is also landed in Murun city/.&nbsp; And then you should be driven for 100 kilometers /miles/ to the Lake Khovsgol. But make sure before you go check out the public transport ticket too because it would be also fully booked.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><br />
<strong>Packing and preparation&nbsp;before I go to winter festival tour in Mongolia</strong></h3>

<p>For the winter traveler in Mongolia, the preparation is the key. Whether you are on multi-day tour or a day tour trip in winter in Mongolia, you should pack your warm clothes, layers, and boots at first. The temperature at the beginning of March in Mongolia is from -10 Celsius/ Fahrenheit/ degrees to -25 Celsius degrees /Fahrenheit/. Check out this travel preparation guide or the <u><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/what-to-pack-for-a-trip-to-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">ultimate packing list </span></a></u>to be sure that you well prepared for the winter trip Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><img alt="" src="/uploads/horse sleigh racing copy.jpg" /></h3>

<p><em>Dashing through the snow in one-horse open sleigh -&nbsp;song lives here</em></p>

<h3><br />
<strong>Photographic opportunities and tips for the ice festival of Mongolia</strong>&nbsp;</h3>

<p>We are a photography specialist tour company in Mongolia. So we always try to care for our loyal and fellow clients, travelers, and photographers to help their travel planning and preparation, especially for the photo tours and workshops in Mongolia.&nbsp; Please find out your specific photo tour information visit the following articles.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Mongolian Photography Tour Tips and Articles&nbsp;</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;-<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/practical-advice-for-mongolian-photography" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Practical advice for Mongolian photography</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;-</span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/tips-and-advice-for-mongolia-winter-photography-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolian Winter photography tips and advice</span></a><br />
<span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;-</span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/what-to-photograph-in-mongolia-and-when-to-go" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">What to photograph and when to go</span></a><br />
<span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;-</span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-photography-locations-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Best photographic locations in Mongolia</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><strong>Other Photography and winter Tours in Mongolia</strong><br />
&nbsp;-<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tours/mongolia-photography-tours" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolian Top 4 Photography Tours</span></a><br />
<span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;-</span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/winter-festivals-2018-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolian Winter Festivals Tour</span></a><br />
<span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;-</span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/extreme-winter-experience-photo-tour-in-northern-mongolia-mixed-group" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Winter Extreme Experience Photo Tour in Mongolia</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;-</span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/photo-tour-to-mystical-reindeer-herders-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Photo Tours to Mystical reindeer herders in northern Mongolia&nbsp;</span></a></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/photo tour to ice festival mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><em>The&nbsp;ice festival is getting more popular and has started already to attracts the international photographers&nbsp;</em></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/ice festival of Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><em>Capturing unique culture and experiencing winter festival in the remote wilderness is a &quot;must do travel&quot; for adventurous photographers&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/portrait mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><em>Mongolia is a country of diverse ethnic groups. It is worth to visit there and take unique portraits of them</em></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/photo shoots on ice festival.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/mongolian girl.jpg" /></p>

<p>Thank you for you time to reading this article and I hope it will help your trip planning. Also hope that you enjoyed the stunning photo shoots that taken by our director, photographer and traveler <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ch.BatzayaPhotography/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Batzaya Choijiljav</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">.&nbsp;</span></p>

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<p>Annual Spring Golden Eagle festival was held at Chinggis Khaanii Khuree Complex on 4-5 March, 2018.&nbsp;Kazakh Eagle Hunters came from Western Mongolia with their trained eagles in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, including the young eagle huntress Aishol Pan and Chai Murat, three-time winner of Golden Eagle Festival. Local Kazakhs show their eagle hunting culture and their unique traditions. It starts with the opening parade with well-dressed hunters and is about authentic competitions of eagle training skills and hunting with golden eagles. Also there are Mongolian falconers gathered and show ancient warrior-skill performance on horseback. Falcon is a steppe raptor and eagle is a mountain&nbsp;raptor, their hunting complies with the territorial features. We took day photo tour to this thrilling event and captured some incredible portraits of Kazakh eagle hunters and Mongolian falconers with their raptors.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Mongolian Eagle Hunter&#39;s Association and Ulaanbaatar City Tourism Department co-organized The Spring Golden Eagle Festival.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>20 eagle hunters and number of falconers attended this event.</em></span></p>

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<p><img alt="golden eagle in Mongolia eagle festival" src="/uploads/golden eagle mongolia.JPG" /></p>

<p><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Golden Eagles (Aquila Chrysacty) are born for hunting; they have incredible speed, great eye sight and powerful feet with sharp talons</span>.</em></p>

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<p><img alt="eagle festival ulaanbaatar" src="/uploads/spring eagle festival mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>In last years the festival captivates many travelers and photographers and it is now well known event to the world.</em></span></p>

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<p><img alt="portrait of kazakh hunter in mongolia" src="/uploads/Kazakh portrait.JPG" /></p>

<p><em><span style="font-size:14px;">If you are a photographer or portrait photography lover this is the must-visit festival to shoot strange and unique faces</span>.</em></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>It can&rsquo;t be imagined that the Kazakh men without eagles because the eagle hunting has become a tradition from some 6000 years.</em></span></p>

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<p><img alt="eagle huntress Aishoplan at eagle festival ulaanbaatar" src="/uploads/eagle huntress mongolia aisholpan.JPG" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>The young Eagle Huntress, Aishol Pan, the winner of Golden eagle Festival - 2014 and the well known film star in the world.</em>&nbsp;</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>&nbsp;Mongolian traditional rituals of falconry have been officially registered as intangible cultural heritages of mankind by UNESCO in 2012</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Chinggis Khan and his soldiers worshiped white falcon as a heavenly sacred bird</em>.</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>The young generation of Mongolian Traditional Falconry, 10 year old boy who has been training his falcon for 2 years.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>The Kazakhs, Mongolian ethnic group, still originally keep, practice and develop the hunting with eagle as one of the common forms of falconry, which is highly appreciable tradition because it enriches the cultural heritages of humans with its special manners.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

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<p style="margin-left:auto;">All photos created and owned by Batzaya Choijiljav at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">www.toursmongolia.com</span></a></p>

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			'body' => '<p>Explore incredible images of Mongolian Gobi desert. Photographer<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ch.BatzayaPhotography/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Batzaya Choijiljav</span></a> traveled to Mongolian&nbsp;Gobi and took stunning pictures of this exotic desert.&nbsp;From Prehistoric dinosaur fossil sites to Centuries old Mongolian nomadic culture, from great desert adventures to pleasant leisure activities, from stunning desert&nbsp;landscapes to local camel herders are captured on his camera. You may imagine Mongolian Gobi that it is just an empty, dry and warm desert. But after seeing these photos, your thought would absolutely be changed.&nbsp;</p>

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<h2>Mongolian Gobi -&nbsp;Home to Prehistoric Remains</h2>

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The Gobi desert of Mongolia is one of the hottest spots for World&rsquo;s historical, archeological and paleontological research. The Gobi Desert was unknown to the world until Marco Polo&rsquo;s travel in the 13th century. Many other explorers followed Polo&#39;s journey and traveled through the Gobi Desert such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Chapman_Andrews" target="_blank">Roy Chapman Andrew</a>&rsquo;s expedition. Their most impressive discovery was the first ever scientifically recognized dinosaur eggs in the world. The eggs, pictured left, were found at an incredibly dense fossil site called Flaming Cliffs in Southern Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolian gobi desert " src="/uploads/mongolia gobi discoveries.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Photo from</em><span style="color:#800000;"> </span><a href="https://roychapmanandrewssociety.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">www.roychapmanandrewssociety.org&nbsp;</span></a></span></p>

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Scenic and Exotic Desert of Mongolia</h2>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Gobi is an iconic destination for landscape, wildlife and night sky photography. Contrasting colors of rugged mountains,&nbsp;sand dunes, green oasis, mystic mirages are not only the photographic objects but also the Gobi is a land of roaming camels, gazelles, and endangered wild animals &ndash; it makes the Gobi the most exotic desert on earth.&nbsp;Now, let&rsquo;s enjoy&nbsp;some beautiful sceneries of the South Gobi of Mongolia taken by Mongolian photographer.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/gobi desert photos mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Mongolia has three types of deserts, and some of it has enough grass for livestock to graze.</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Khermen Tsav, &ldquo;The end of the World&rdquo; named by Roy Chapman Andrews. Spectacular rock formations where the first dinosaur skeleton was found, </em></span><em><span style="font-size:14px;">locate</span></em><span style="font-size:14px;"><em> in North West of Omno-Gobi province.</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="mongolia camels gobi " src="/uploads/gobi camels mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Domestic Bactrian camel has been one of the most important animals for steppe nomads since it had domesticated in 2500BC.&nbsp;Also, there are Wild Bactrian Camels, called &lsquo;Khavtgai&rsquo; are survived and still roaming through Mongolian Gobi&nbsp;desert.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="gobi wildlife photos mongolia " src="/uploads/gobi wildlife photos.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Mongolian arid deserts and steppe ecosystems provide homes for Mongolia&#39;s varied reptiles and other forms of wildlife.</em></span></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Camel Herding Nomads of Mongolian Gobi&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2>

<p>He captured not only the landscape and natural beauty of the Gobi. He photographs traditional nomadic lifestyle, people and culture along with the spectacular nature.</p>

<p>The camel-herding nomads - &nbsp;truly live a rugged existence, living off the land and relying on Mother Nature to provide. Their lives are unbelievably&nbsp;simple. Mongolian nomadic people&nbsp;have minimal possessions and only take from the land and the livestock&nbsp;what they need when they need it. They are also known as the most hospitable people on earth and it is easily seen when you enter their dwelling / Ger/.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolian gobi nomads " src="/uploads/gobi nomads photos.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>They are very warm and friendly after entering their </em></span><em><span style="font-size:14px;">ger</span></em><span style="font-size:14px;"><em> they kindly welcome you and offer milk tea with whatever they have.</em>&nbsp;</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Simple nomadic dwelling Ger -easy to break down and easy to erect and warm in winter, cool in summer. Mongolian nomads&nbsp;have been moving with their Gers and living like this way for thousands of years. And the Ger has developed and changed very little for centuries</em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><img alt="mongolia gobi people photos " src="/uploads/nomads photos mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="camel riding gobi tour " src="/uploads/camel riding mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h2>The Mongolian Gobi should be your next Adventure</h2>

<p>Considering Mongolia to travel or creating your bucket list and looking for a unique place to add on, then the Mongolian Gobi should be your next adventure. The&nbsp;Gobi&nbsp;is&nbsp;a place of beauty, mystery, culture, and wonder that captivates adventurers all around the World. Travelers and photographers are coming&nbsp;for its stunning scenery, mystic historical remains, authentic nomads, their traditions and magnificent wildlife even the terrain is barren and the weather is extreme.&nbsp;Take a look around what travelers do in the Gobi.</p>

<p><img alt="gobi desert tours mongolia " src="/uploads/mongolia gobi tours.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Southern Gobi is the least populated region of Mongolia, lack of paved roads, mostly less discovered huge land- means that this desert&nbsp;is the true destination for overland adventurers.</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="gobi desert sand dune" src="/uploads/sand dunes gobi mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Climbing&nbsp;sand dune is one of the must try activities in the gobi. The best place to climb is Khongor Sand Dunes, &nbsp;6-12 km (3.7-7.5 mi) wide, 180 km (110 mi) long and rising to a height of 80 m (260 ft) and the highest point is at 300 m (980 ft).&nbsp;Challenge yourself.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="yol valley gobi mongolia " src="/uploads/yol valley gobi mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Don&#39;t miss to visit the magnificent &quot;Yol Valley&quot; in Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park, home to endangered species of mammals, birds </em></span><em><span style="font-size:14px;">and</span></em><span style="font-size:14px;"><em> reptiles. Walking through the dramatic gorges along with&nbsp;colorful flowers,&nbsp;rocky outcrops and deep ice field that forms in winter and remains well into summer.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="camel riding mongolia photos " src="/uploads/camel riding adventure mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Riding </em></span><em><span style="font-size:14px;">bacterian</span><span style="font-size:14px;"> camels is also must try </span><span style="font-size:14px;">activity</span><span style="font-size:14px;"> in the Gobi. Local camel herding hosts offer to&nbsp;use </span><span style="font-size:14px;">comfortable</span></em><span style="font-size:14px;"><em> hand-made saddles for riding, which sit between the two- humps of the camels.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="sand dune adventure photos mongolia " src="/uploads/gobi sand dune adventure mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Khongor Sand Dunes- The true destination for challengers, climbers, photographers </em></span><em><span style="font-size:14px;">and</span></em><span style="font-size:14px;"><em> bikers too.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Without </em></span><em><span style="font-size:14px;">doubt</span></em><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>, visiting local family is the best way to experience nomadic culture&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Spending time in Mongolian gobi&nbsp;and capturing the true spirit of the nomadic&nbsp;country and its camera-shy people. It&rsquo;s a true journey that requires instinct, courage and the immerse into the unknown.&nbsp;I hope you have found your inspiration to add Mongolian Gobi&nbsp;Desert to&nbsp;your&nbsp;bucket list.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>All photos created and owned by Batzaya Choijiljav at <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">www.toursmongolia.com</span></a></p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">This guide can help you to find the best photo spots in Mongolia. Let&#39;s get started from Central Mongolia which&nbsp;has long been described as home to the ancient capital of Mongol Empire, the countless historical findings and cultural heritage along with local nomadic lifestyle make this region photogenic from every angle. If you are into history, religion, architecture, nomadic culture or love good landscape and whether you have limited time to travel or on a big photo expedition, central Mongolia is a must visit and must capture a place in Mongolia.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Orkhon Cultural Valley&nbsp;</span></span></span></h3>

<p>Orkhon Valley is the most important part of central Mongolia for photography and discovery. Centuries-old stone statues, steles, burial mounds, Buddhist monasteries, monks, local nomads, and vibrant landscapes are the image of this epic valley and it sure to offer the opportunity to take cultural photography along with beautiful nature.</p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Erdene Zuu Monastery, the oldest and the biggest Buddhist center of Mongolia</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="kharkhorin city mongolia " src="/uploads/kharkhorin city mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>The site of </em></span><em><span style="font-size:14px;">ancient</span><span style="font-size:14px;"> capital city- Today&#39;s view </span><span style="font-size:14px;">from from</span></em><span style="font-size:14px;"><em> the hill&nbsp;</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="orkhon waterfall mongolia " src="/uploads/orkhon waterfall mongolia photos.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Mongolia&#39;s second tallest waterfall -Ulaan Zutgalan </em></span><em><span style="font-size:14px;">known</span></em><span style="font-size:14px;"><em> as Orkhon Waterfall&nbsp;</em></span></p>

<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Ulaanbaatar the capital city</span></span></span></h3>

<p>As the city of nomads, It keeps modern and old, nomadic and civilization style view in itself. You can take a picture of some historical statues and Buddhist temple. Panoramic and architect photographers may be interested in this contemporary city.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="ulaanbaatar sukhbaatar square " src="/uploads/ulaanbaatar sukhbaatar square.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Sukhbaatar Statute, locates in the central square of Ulaanbaatar.&nbsp;Sukhbaatar the &#39;hero of the revolution&#39;.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="gandan monastery mongolia " src="/uploads/gandan monastery photos.jpg" /></p>

<p><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Gandan Monastery, the main Buddhist center of Ulaanbaatar</span>&nbsp;</em></p>

<p><img alt="cultural performance ulaanbaatar " src="/uploads/cultural performance mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Mongolian folk performance is one of the best photography spots</em>&nbsp;</span></p>

<h3><span style="color:#B22222;"><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Terelj National Park</span></span></span></h3>

<p>One of the most popular attractions, colorful and with magnificent alpine scenery. The National Park area is very impressive, with massive rock formations set among scenic valleys and hills with a winding river and groves of trees. Photographers leisurely stroll on meadows carpeted with a variety of wild flowers, cpture fascinating rock formations against a backdrop of pine-covered mountains and wander along the wooded banks of a mountain stream. The nearest NP from the capital city.</p>

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<p><img alt="terelj national park tour " src="/uploads/terelj photography tour.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="terelj horse riding tour " src="/uploads/terelj riding tour mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="flowers mongolia " src="/uploads/flowers mongolia edelweiss.jpg" /></p>

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<h3><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><span style="font-size:22px;">Hustai National Park - wildlife photography spot</span></span></span></h3>

<p>Good place for wildlife photographing and locates 100km from Ulaanbaatar. The park is known for its population of wild horses /Prezewalski&rsquo;s horse/ and home to red deer, wild boar, fox, grey wolf, marmot and rare birds. Also, it gives us a good opportunity to capture wild flowers and ancient monuments and much more</p>

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<p><img alt="hustai national park photos " src="/uploads/hustai flowers mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="hustai national park wild horse " src="/uploads/hustai national park wild horse.jpg" /></p>

<h3><span style="color:#B22222;"><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Horgo Terkh National Park- Landscape photo opportunities</span></span></span></h3>

<p>The beautiful northern Khangai Region is full of high mountains, wide canyons, clean lakes, long rivers, colorful flowers, delicious fruits, birds, and wild animals are the best spot to take landscape and nature photos. Also, chance to visit local herders and take daily lifestyle pictures of them.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="terkhiin tsagaan lakes mongolia " src="/uploads/terkhiin tsagaan lakes mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="camping tours mongolia " src="/uploads/camping tours mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/khorgo terkhiin tsagaan national park.jpg" /></p>

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<p>Thank you for your reading. We will continue to introduce the best photo spots of Mongolia by regions. Be keep updated with our next &quot;Best Photo Spots in Mongolia&quot; via our weekly blog news.&nbsp;</p>

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			'body' => '<p>Are you looking for perfect photo spots to capture people in traditional costumes, golden eagle hunting or centuries old nomadic culture? Or do you like to take photos of ancient historic sites, scenic landscapes along with local people and lifestyle? If you say &ldquo;Yes&rdquo; to one of these, then western Mongolia is your new photographic destination and we guide you to find the best photography spots of this region.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Mongolian Altai Mountains are so photogenic</span></span></h3>

<p>One of the highlights of western Mongolia, Altai Tavan Bogd NP contains lots of scenic places, lakes, ragged peaks, glaciers, endangered floras and faunas, ancient historical sites, UNESCO Heritages and local nomads-eagle hunters and Dukha people to shoot. We took an adventure photo journey to this magnificent place and show you the best photo spots selected by local photography experts.</p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Our Photo Adventure in Altai Mountains of Mongolia</em>&nbsp;</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Scenic landscapes in western Mongolia</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Unesco World Heritage Site</em></span></p>

<h3><span style="color:#B22222;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Portrait photography destination - Khovd province</span></span></h3>

<p>If you are a portrait photographer and looking for unique faces, then this is the right place to take pictures of local ethnic people. There 18 ethnic groups in Mongolia and most of them live in this province. Choosing an effective portrait location takes time and thought, but it&#39;s something that you should always aim to get right. It is worth to visit this less populated region you will experience diverse cultures, receive great hospitality along with photographing. If you are an extreme adventurer and seeking uncommon photoshoots then you may be interested in &lsquo;Silver Reeds Winter Festival&rdquo;. &nbsp;Here we show you some of the best shots taken by local Mongolian photographer<span style="color:#800000;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ch.BatzayaPhotography/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Batzaya Choijiljav</span></a></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Mongol Nomadic Festival&nbsp;</em></span></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#B22222;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Photographing Golden Eagle Festival&nbsp;</span></span></h3>

<p>The most attractive event, Golden Eagle Festival is truly must be one of the best photography spots in Mongolia. Known to the world as teenage eagle huntress, centuries old heritage of Kazakh people and beautiful huge eagles. For the photographers, it gives ga reat chance to capture fantastic moments of golden eagle hunting, horsemen competition and other cultural activities. This exciting festival will truly be worth to visit to take fascinating pictures.</p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Aishol Pan, the eagle huntress and famous film star</em>&nbsp;</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Opening parade at Golden Eagle Festival Mongolia</em></span></p>

<h3><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Capture landscapes and nomads in Zavkhan province</span></span></h3>

<p>Far from tourists, less explored area of Mongolia, keeps a number of hidden treasures in itself. Magnificent turquoise colored &ldquo;Khar Lake&rdquo; surrounded by golden sand dunes, snow capped Mt. Otgon Tenger, the highest point of the second largest mountain range of Mongolia and local nomadic herders &ndash; it would be the perfect photo scene for landscape, travel, portrait and culture photography.</p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Ulaagchiin Khar Lake</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="mongolia nomads photos " src="/uploads/mongolia nomads photos.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Mongolian Nomads</em>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><img alt="local concert mongolia " src="/uploads/cultural performances mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Folk Performance&nbsp;</em></span></p>

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			'body' => '<p>Newly found giant creature, Pterosaur, lived 70 million years ago, inhabitant of warm desert, today&rsquo;s Mongolian Gobi.</p>

<p>In 2006,&nbsp; Buuvei.M who is paleontologist&nbsp;of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences first discovered the bones of this gigantic animal in region of Mongolia&#39;s Gobi desert known as the Nemegt Formation, an area where many dinosaur bones have been found before.</p>

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<p>They sent the fossil to the University of Tokyo for further analysis before a re-examination of the site uncovered more remains. But many of the bones were broken into tiny fragments, meaning it took researchers years to piece them back together.</p>

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<p>Pterosaurs were reptiles, according to the American Museum of Natural History. They were close cousins to dinosaurs, and some were as tiny as a paper airplane. From these fossil bones they determined the creature was huge.&nbsp;The flesh-eating huge reptile, which was the size of a small plane with a wingspan stretching 11 metres (36ft), was likely one of the largest animals ever to fly. No pterosaur that large had been found in Asia until this one.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>The Nemegt Formation, locates in western region of <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/southern" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolian Gobi</span></a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;(the upper beds) are composed of shales and sandstones that were deposited by ancient lakes, streams, and flood plains. &nbsp;When examined, the rock facies of this formation suggest the presence of stream and river channels, mudflats, and shallow lakes. Sediments also indicate that there existed a rich habitat, offering diverse food in abundant amounts that could sustain massive Cretaceous dinosaurs.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>&nbsp;Resource:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemegt_Formation" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">wikipedia.org&nbsp;</span></a><span style="color:#800000;"> ,</span><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">nationalgeographic.com</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

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<p><strong>Interested in discovering Mongolian Gobi?&nbsp;</strong><br />
We arrange discovery and photography tour in Mongolian Gobi. Check out our suggested&nbsp;&nbsp;tour program below:&nbsp;</p>

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