About Mongolia

Mongolia is a destination for real adventurers and explorers.  This land-located country has; a thick larch forest at the southern end of Siberia, over 3000m high sharp mountains of Altai, beautiful peaceful valleys that your mind is to refresh, crystal clear lakes that you can see in nowhere but, in Mongolia, hundreds of rivers and streams for nomadic people lifestyle and the deadly desert but, includes the oasis and unique formations that lies your mind.
 

For traveling in Mongolia, it can be divided into 5 zones;

ONE. SOUTHERN DESERTIC GOBI DESERT - Extraordinary 100km long sand dune, dinosaurs remain mud cliffs, reach an oasis in the middle of the desert, and rare wild animals. 

 

TWO. NORTHERN LARCH FOREST ZONE - This destination is famous for crystal clear lake Huvsgul; 134km long 46km wide, 200m deep(known) freshwater lake that is proclaimed one of the world's freshest lakes. And its people reindeer family is also last one of the last remnants of thousands of years ago mankind life style.

 

THREE. FAR WEST ZONE - Over 3000m above sea level high snow-peaked mountains and its locals that, chosen to be a hunter with eagles Kazaks. This zone is also very famous for the Mongolian highest point mount Huiten (4374m above sea level) for mountaineers and climbers.

 

FOUR. EASTERN ZONE - The birth land of Ghengis Khan, the emperor of the world's biggest empire has ever appeared. And wide-open steppes and dead volcanoes.

 

FIVE. CENTRAL ZONE - The most popular destination for tourism that includes a rich source of the nomadic lifestyle and the history of 2200 years(the first dynasty Hunnu appeared in nowadays Mongolian territory). Also, this zone is the most convenient destination for all kinds of tours; horse trek, classical tour, holiday traveling, scientific expedition, etc ...

 

TOURS CONVENIENT IN ZONES

Zone 1 - exploring the mystery of Gobi and its flora and fauna, camel trekking, paleontological expedition

Zone 2 - holiday travel, ethno research, horse trek, hiking

Zone 3 - mountaineering, ethno research, extreme tours

Zone 4 - hiking, historical research, horse trek,

Zone 5 - discovering nomad lifestyle, horse trek, historical and regional tour, horse trek, hiking, motorbike, cycling, safari, etc...

 

HISTORY; Mongolian state history begins in 209 BC with Hunnu Dynasty. In hundreds of inner and outer clashes & wars between dynasties and tribes, the central Asian nomads were finally united by Ghengis Khan and conquered almost half of the world in the 13th century. The Mongolians were first known in the whole world by Great Mongol State ruled by Ghengis Khan and his successors that used to rule the expanded territory that, stretched from current Korea to the Black Sea, Russian Principals to Himalaya Mountain. And from the 16th century, Mongol State started to collapse and was occupied by Manchu Dynasty in the late 18th century. But, at the beginning of the 20th century Mongols have renascence by the communist way. After 75 years of the communist era, nationalism and democracy have won in 1990 with no life loss.

 

PRESENT POLITICAL SITUATION; Nowadays, Mongolia is a landlocked country that, borders with Russian Federation and the Peoples' Republic of China. Politically, Mongolia has diplomatic relations with both Neighbors and third countries and is highly motivated by non-religious democratic solutions. And Mongolia is one of the safest countries in the world. And 2, 8 million populations have lived and worked about 100 years of western influence but, half of the population still keeps their ancient lifestyle, Nomadic. 
One of the countries where their economic growth transforms from agriculture to mining.

 

GEOGRAPHY; In a 1,5 million square kilometer territory there are the High Rocky Mountains with glaciers, hundreds of crystals and salted lakes, long and deep rivers that float in larch and pine forest in the north, an endless deadly desert that has extraordinary sand dune and oasis in the east and southern region.

 

TOURISM IN MONGOLIA; tourism started in Mongolia in 1960 but, it was mostly for Soviet Union countries. After the democratic revolution in 1990, many national travel agencies and tour operators worked on the improvement of national tourism standards.  Nowadays Mongolia has recognized the world as an adventure, exploring, Trans Siberian, and business destination. The accommodations and travel service standards are usually very basic, and when the travelers head up to deep into the countryside, sometimes the basic standard cannot be supplied. And these kinds of matters make Mongolia more remote, mysterious, and outstanding for real adventurers.

ACCESS TO MONGOLIA

Mongolia is a landlocked country that borders with Russian Federation and the Peoples Republic of China. The capital city Ulaanbaatar(Red Warrior)  is the main starting point of the tour around the country. And there are mainly three ways to access Mongolia.

 

BY TRAIN: To take a train from Moscow/Russian Federation/ will take 5 days through Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk towns of Russia. And train from Beijing/Peoples Republic of China/ will take 30 hours through the Erlian city of China. 

 

BY AIR: there are few international direct flights are available.

South Korea – MIAT(Mongolian Airlines), Korean Air, Asiana Airline, Air Busan
Japan – MIAT(Mongolian Airlines), Korean Air
China – MIAT(Mongolian Airlines), Air China
Russia – MIAT(Mongolian Airlines), Aeroflot
Germany – MIAT(Mongolian Airlines), Aeroflot

Turkey - Turkish Airline, MIAT(Mongolian Airlines)

 

BY CAR: 
in the north; Ulan-Ude city/Russian/ to Ulaanbaatar city there is 30 hours coach runs every day
in the south; from Erlian city/Chinese/ to Zamiin Uud town/Mongolian/ there are individual vehicles cross the border.
In the west; from Gorny Altai/Russian/ to Ulgii town/Mongolian/ there are individual vehicles cross the border. And from Daliang/Chinese/ to Khovd town/Mongolia/ there are individual vehicles cross the border.