The Gobi Desert provides the backdrop as you explore, discover and understand the Gobi as well as meet some of the people that make their home in these remarkable landscapes.
The Gobi principally spans six of Mongolia’s aimags (provinces) and our Gobi Insight trips takes in three of them - the eastern Gobi (Dorngobi), the Middle (Dudgobi) and the Southern (Omnogobi). Mongolians say they have at least 33 different types of desert - with the types frequently varying depending on water supply, minerals and location. For certain it is huge open expanse of extremes. Granite and limestone rock formations, vast gravel plains, sand dunes, 2800m mountains, gorges and canyons and Saxaul forest - this itinerary is designed so you experience the variety and diversity of the Gobi.
Eternal Landscapes
Untamed Mongolia
Explore the Gobi Desert
23 days
From £1,994Group tour
Destinations
Ulaanbaatar, Khogno Khan National Park, Uran Togoo, Khovsgol Nuur National Park, Murun, Erdenedalai, Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur National Park, Baga Gazriin Chuluu, Dalanzadgad, Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park, Flaming Cliffs, Jargalant, Khustain Nuruu National Park
Ulaanbaatar, Khogno Khan National Park, Uran Togoo, Khovsgol Nuur National Park, Murun, Erdenedalai, Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur National Park, Baga Gazriin Chuluu, Dalanzadgad, Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park, Flaming Cliffs, Jargalant, Khustain Nuruu National Park
Embrace Mongolia’s glorious, limitless space on our Untamed Mongolia small group experience – a celebration of the diversity of Mongolia’s ‘eternal’ landscapes. Mongolia’s landscapes form a backdrop to any journey in Mongolia but are a central element in our Untamed Mongolia experience where the focus is about exploring and discovering the striking landscapes of the Gobi Desert, the high open steppe and the spectacular lake land and northern regions of Mongolia, including Lake Khovsgol.
This is the ultimate road trip combined with a camel trek, wild camping, day hikes and living alongside Mongolia’s herders. Join our Untamed Mongolia for an introduction to the real 21st Century Mongolia – its diversity of landscapes, its people and its way of life.
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