Stories from Mongolian Culture, Wildlife and Places
The Naadam Festival: A Primer for Mongolia’s “Olympics”
New for 2020 is the option to extend your Gobi Discovery Tour and enjoy the Nadaam Festival, Mongolia’s version of the Olympics. Naadam History The festival has existed for centuries in various forms. Originating in military exercises, it later served as a way to train [...]
Mongolia’s Traditional Golden Eagle Festival
Our Golden Eagle Festival adventure trip runs through the Trans-Altai Desert and Altai Mountains to deliver us to the Golden Eagle Festival in the far western edge of Mongolia. Here's a glimpse into the history of this fascinating tradition of Mongolia's Kazakh people. Golden Eagle Festival Begun [...]
Discovering the Gobi Desert’s Rich History
The word Gobi means large and dry in the Mongolian language. The world's fifth largest desert spans 0.5 million square miles of northern China and southern Mongolia. It’s a place of intrigue, fascinating history, and a diversity of wildlife. Riders on the Gobi Discovery tour glimpse its wild, [...]
10 Intriguing Facts About Mongolia
Exotic, barren, desolate, cold, sunny, vast, and welcoming. Visit Mongolia once and it will stay in your heart forever. Here are 10 reasons this ancient land is so intriguing: Mongolia is landlocked, sandwiched between Russia and China. Its capital is Ulaanbaatar, or Ulan Bator, or [...]
