Robert Li, Taipei, Taiwan
We spent four days on the grassland cycling, blue sky and white clouds + endless grassland + cattle, sheep, horse + knight, as the film landscape, grassland lunch, dinner, evening tents lights, as well as the team followed , It is too happy, with our tour guide strong and friendly, not yet finished planning to visit the next trip, this is a must come back to the place.
Odysseas R
Jake Poses (US)
On behalf of the six of us, I just wanted to thank you for organizing a fantastic trip to Mongolia. We really enjoyed all aspects of our trip and thank you for working with us to design a trip that enabled us to see and explore so much of the great country in a short amount of time. Also, Jack did a fantastic job as a guide, and we enjoyed spending time with the three drivers as well. We all have said we will highly recommend this trip and working with your company to our friends back home.
Thanks for all the help,
Maureen Griffen
Michael Haire
I didn’t get the chance to thank you properly for putting together a fantastic group and trek for us. Dulgunn, Mønkh and Battuul were great. Please let them know how much we appreciated how they took care of us and showed us a glimpse of the wonders and beauty of your glorious country. While I only got to spend time with Uugaa in the city, I was thoroughly impressed with him as well. If our experience is any indication (and I’m sure that it is) you have put together a trekking company that stands head and shoulders above the rest. If running an American law firm has anything in common with running a Mongolian Trekking company, it is in the need to find the best people. It is clear you have a talent for doing so. If you ever need a recommendation for your company, including especially a ringing, written endorsement for any advertising (web or print), I would be glad to provide one without hesitation. Cheers, my friend. Stay adventurous!
Marie-Helene Bouvier
Susanna & Rainer Hiß
Wir waren ein tolles Team alle zusammen, haben uns sehr gut verstanden und haben viel zusammen erlebt. Hatten tolle Gespräche und tolle Momente ohne zu sprechen ...
Alles in allem bedanken wir uns, daß Sie alle uns diese unvergessliche Reise ermöglicht haben. Es hat alles wunderbar geklappt und wir sind mehr als zufrieden.
Unsere Erwartungen wurden mehr als übertroffen. Danke dafür.
Nochmals Danke an Sie alle und eine schöne Zeit.
Wir empfehlen Sie alle gerne weiter.
Hayley Baxter, Australia
If you're thinking of taking this or a similar tour, even in the frigid winter months, read my review and book it in immediately. This was the single best experience I had in Ulaanbaatar.
Bat picked us up at our hostel on time at 8am, and drove us out though Mongolia's rugged countryside of white rolling ranges as the sun rose. We drove past villages sitting contained and street-less, just rising up in brightly coloured houses amid the snow. After about 40 minutes, we began the cross country descent to The Valley of Bogd Khan Mountain.
Initially, we hiked up to the cluster of gers nesting in the ice, their chimneys smoking, then made our way to the 6.5km track up Mt Bogd Khan (600m elevation). Bat was happy to go at my pace, which is hardly Olympic, and after stripping off several unnecessary layers--I'm from Australia, my snow hiking knowledge is about zero--we made a steady pace for the summit, passing through picturesque forests of larch and cedar, spotted with little squirrels darting between them as we climbed.
There were plenty of friendly UB locals of all ages about too, hiking the same trail in their usual street boots and coats, but don't think the trail is necessarily a breeze. I worked up a sweat by the summit, and my quads are feeling it today (I hiked this yesterday).
At the top of the mountain, you will find cairns strewn with prayer flags, bestowed with offerings of milk, vodka, sweets and so on. Moreover, you have a gobsmacking 360 degree view: to the south, the edge of the forest and the wild plains leading to the Gobi. To the north, the snowy peaks of Siberia proper. You can also see the bowl of the capital spread out below, usually covered in a halo of smog.
We explored all of this while eating our packed lunch (you'd need to have a huge stomach not to be satisfied with it) and drinking cups of hot tea. It is very cold at the top, and taking gloves off photos feels like dipping your hands into a bucket of ice, but it's worth it to take those shots. So sick it up and do it.
We leisurely descended (if you're a champion hiker though, that's the pace Bat will keep) and made our way off track to explore the remains of the Buddhist monastery, where Bogd Khan was placed under house arrest by the Chinese in 1920, until he was liberated by Russian Baron Ungern-Sternberg, thus kicking off a very interesting period of Mongolian history.
That concluded the trip. Bat dropped us back at our hostel on time, and said goodbye.
A final note about our tour guide, Bat: he is wonderful and sociable. He speaks better English than many native speakers, and he studied history at university, so make sure you mine him for information. Our heads are so full of fascinating facts and images of glittering snow in cedar forests that we can hardly contain them.
Now go book this hike, even if it is cold out.
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