Terelj National Park
Travel Blogs from Terelj National Park, Mongolia
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Camping On The Grasslands
Our second port of call was to visit with two other nomadic families that live within the Terelj National Park, an area approximately 2,864 sq.km in size and characterised by lush rolling hills set amid the valleys of the Khentii Mountain range, 60km to ...
Terelj - Campfire songs
... to a dirt road away from the camp where a roaring fire was blazing away. There were five performer in native Mongolia dress, two singers, a dancer and two players. While all the performers were good, I was especially impressed with the ...
Day 171 - Mongolian Horses on Canada Day
We celebrated Canada Day in a beautiful valley of Terelj National Park. After a 2hr drive on reasonable roads, though not western standards, we arrived at our host ger for a 2-night/3-day horseback riding tour of the area. The proximity to UB was ...
Terelj National Park
Terelj National Park is about 70 km north-west of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia The five of us (Alex, Matt, Sophie, Dave and Michelle) showed up at Khongor GH at 9am for the two day one night Terelj tour. We were expecting a van for the 5 of us plus the driver. ...
Terelj NP, or when you wish upon a star...
... the average Mongolian only makes several hundred dollars a month. Anyway you cut it this was still a store for Mongolia's elite. Stocked-up, we headed east out of the city crawling through the almost gridlocked traffic and dodging ...
Ger Camp
Head out to the Ger camp, basically a few tents in a field. the Ger is the traditional home of the Mongolian and 80% of the population still live in one. the idea been they are easy to take down and put up when herding horses across the plains. the camp ...
Ger Camp in Terelj National Park
... northeast of the capital. The Mongolians I had met at Dave's Pub the night before had painted an ideal imagery of Terelj National Park, so I was naturally excited to escape from the bustling capital for a while. We drove on the national highway to the ...
Countryside,Horses and Evil Camels....
... us all to the meal and it was amazing. Went on the trip on friday with John,Tatiana and Mark to the ger camp in Terelj national park. the scenery there was fantastic, went for a walk for an hour when we got there before lunch and got some good views ...
Terelj NP, or born to be wild
... of somewhat steep hills. Eventually we crested the first hill and before us was a wonderful view of the mountains of the national park. We could even see the monastery we had climbed/hiked to yesterday. Moving along the ridge we soon saw ...
I put the Grrrr in Ger
... to a small easterly road that cuts through the high plains of the Mongolian wilderness - I finally feel like we are in the real Mongolia - or at least the one that was promised in the "brochure". At first, factories and houses give way to hills and the ...
Ger to Ger Adventure Day 1 - Honeymoon Ger
... Ger Our guide met us at our fabulous hostel, the Golden Gobi and together we walked to the bus station to catch a bus to the Terelj National Park. To our surprise, Sambo, our first host, was also on the bus, so it was easy to know when to get ...
Mongolian G2G Day 4 – Kazak Heaven
The next morning proved to be a bright and sunny day. We decided that we would like to walk to the great metallic Chingis Kahn monument honoring his discovery of the Golden Whip. It is a statue that appears to be in the middle of nowhere and ...
Ger Camp
Gorkhi Terelj National Park: Highlights: - Ros' Birthday, having a birthday meal, drinks and looking at the stars - Staying in a traditional Ger - Watching a mini Nadaam which included horse riding, archery and wrestling. - David wrestling with a ...
Mongolian G2G Day 2 – Meat Fest! Organ Fest!
... pull-out couch – something that several ger families had purchased to replace the traditional single wooden beds found in a ger. Mongolia may be the place where couches go to die. However, it was warm and cozy in our cocoon sleeping bags ...
Mongolian G 2 G Day 3 – To Ger or Not to Ger
Our host family had to leave in the morning for a wedding. Before they left, they allowed us to try on their traditional Kazak dress for pictures. Curt spent some time photographing free-roaming goats and camels and became enveloped in a camel ...
What would Yoda say?
... animals they do not handle them gently at all. It is really painful to watch for my animal sensibilities. The face of Mongolia is of the nomadic cowboy. They are so beautiful to look at with their cowboy hats, traditional Mongolian costume and ...
Voorproefje Gerkamp en UB in Mongolie
... hebben doorgebracht, werd alleen afgewisseld door de strenge controles en administratieve toestanden bij de grensovergangen van Rusland en Mongoli''. Onvoorstelbaar hoeveel man douane er dan rondrent in de trein, hoeveel overhoop gehaald wordt in de ...
Venturing into the countryside.
Off on our first tour to see some of this nice scenery we had heard so much about. Joining us on the tour was a kiwi bloke called Alan and an aussie girl called Kate. After about a 2 hour drive we arrived to turtle rock where the family we were staying ...
Horse riding and archery in Mongolia
... ears (a bit like the Vietnamese singing but not as extreme). The following day we had a beautiful although bumpy ride to Terelj National Park where we stayed at a Ger camp. The scenery was really stunning there and we had a great time walking, riding ...
A night in a ger
After a chilled out day in Mongolia involving industrial quantities of food (Mongolian BBQ is sooooo good...) we headed out to Terelj National Park about an hour from UB to stay the night in a ger camp. About 50% of Mongolians are nomads and move three or ...
Terelj National Park
... that balance and order have been restored. We have another long travel day, as we drive north through Ulaan Baatar to Terelj National Park. We have an actual paved highway for much of the distance, so the drivers are able to make good time. As we ...
Unique experience in a ger
... yet the bank was open. Ochko said the banks are open 24 hours 7 days a week, We drove through Ulanbator on the way to the National Park & I hadn’t realized it was such a built up city. I asked where the old city was & Ochko said that there ...
Amazing countryside of Mongolia
... I am quite a chilled out person and the buddisaum is a peaceful religion. From the monastry we headed off to Gorkhi-Terelk national park. The weather was beatiful and it was so nice to get into the countryisde. We stopped a few times and managed to get ...
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