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Mongolia Wildlife Highlights

Ulaanbaatar · Hustai National Park · South Gobi Desert
Duration
7 Days · 6 Nights
The route
Ulaanbaatar · Hustai National Park · South Gobi Desert
Style
Wild horses and the Gobi in a week
Best season
May – September · best
The route

6 nights, 3 stops — wild horses and the gobi in a week.

Ulaanbaatar → Hustai National Park → South Gobi Desert.

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What you're tracking

What you'll see

Saker falcon
Over the surrounding steppe.
Daurian jackdaw
Around the city.
Przewalski's horse
Grazing the steppe.
Red deer
In the valleys.
Day by day

The journey, one day at a time

01Arrive Ulaanbaatar

Arrive Ulaanbaatar

The journey begins.

Arrive in Ulaanbaatar, met and transferred to your accommodation. Ulaanbaatar is the one city in a vast empty land — the staging point for the steppe, Gobi and Altai.

02Ulaanbaatar → Hustai National Park

To Hustai National Park

On to the next.

Transfer to Hustai National Park. Dawn and dusk drives for the wild takhi horses. Steppe wildlife, deer and marmots on the grassland.

03Hustai National Park

Hustai National Park

A full day in the field.

Steppe wildlife, deer and marmots on the grassland. A full day with the world's last wild horses. The takhi of Hustai, once extinct in the wild, now run free again — one of conservation's great triumphs.

04Hustai National Park → South Gobi Desert

To South Gobi Desert

On to the next.

Transfer to South Gobi Desert. The singing dunes, ice gorge and desert wildlife. Wild camels, ibex and the Flaming Cliffs.

05South Gobi Desert

South Gobi Desert

A full day in the field.

Wild camels, ibex and the Flaming Cliffs. A full day across the Gobi's dunes and plains. The Gobi's Flaming Cliffs, where the first dinosaur eggs were unearthed, are among the most storied fossil sites on earth.

06South Gobi Desert

South Gobi Desert

A full day in the field.

A full day across the Gobi's dunes and plains. Desert wildlife and dinosaur cliffs by 4x4.

07Depart South Gobi Desert

Departure

The journey ends.

A final morning in South Gobi Desert — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.

When to travel

The season changes what you see.

May – September

Peak season

The mild season — the time to head into the wilderness.

Year-round

Good season

A year-round gateway; winters are brutally cold.

Make it yours.

Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.

Field notes, now and then.

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