Hunting with eagle

Upon arrive in Ulaanbaatar (UB), the company guide meets you at the airport/train station and transfers to a hotel in the downtown of UB city. After refreshment and short rest, the tour program starts with city tour to the Museum of National History with displays related with Mongolian history and its splendid collection of Mongolian traditional costumes exhibits. If time permits evening tour around of UB, including the World War II Memorial at Zaisan hill with beautiful panoramic view of the city. Welcoming dinner at the restaurant in downtown. Overnight at hotel.

Early in the morning transfer to the airport and fly to Ulgii city of Bayan-Ulgii province (3 hrs). The Ulgii city is the center of the predominately Kazakh region of Mongolia and home to 30,000 people. The city is known for its Kazakh embroidery, art and Kazakh music which can be seen during the city tour and lunch. Sightseeing in Ulgii city, visit museum, black market and after lunch drive to the base camp that locates 30km’s away from the city. Stay overnight in a ger near the Eagle hunters and Kazakh family.

Sunrise and sunset in Altai mountains is a similar and totally different from feeling like standing in a middle of metropolis highrise buildings. That’s the moment you never should miss – BE PREPARED FOR THIS MOMENT. Spend four days with Kazakh hunters and their eagles. Experience hunting with eagle tradition in Altai mountain on horses. Average distance of the tour on horses 10-15 km’s each day. This trip not only gives you an opportunity to be a part of eagle hunting tradition but also horse riding through a scenic landscape and ancient petroglyphs, deer stone would be an another gem of the tour. The petroglyph image is engraved, scratched, gouged or pecked into the surface of bedrock or boulders dating back 12,000 years. Several sites are in the Mongolian Altai UNESCO World Heritage. Petroglyphs are represented by single images or by compositions of two or more images up to several hundred motifs. Turkic Standing Stones are unique stone artifacts made by the ancient Blue Turks and others made between 2000BC to right before the Mongolian Empire. These standing stones are carved to look like a man and can be over 5 or 6 ft tall. Other standing stones have images of deer that appear to be flying, made by Turks or possibly Tuvans. Throughout trip the petroglyphs and standing stones will be found quite often.

Visit to Kazakh family occurs occasionally and in most cases during the lunch (picnic) time.

Drive back to Ulgii city, fly to Ulaanbaatar. Half day city tour with visit of Fine Art Museum, State Department store and cultural performance show – followed by farewell dinner.