The dates the country stops for.
Once a year the steppe comes together: wrestlers, eagles, ice, camels, the lunar new year. We hold places early, put you where the day actually happens, and build the rest of the journey around it.
Tsagaan Sar, the White Month
Tsagaan Sar is the Mongolian lunar new year, and the country celebrates it at home. For…
Yak Festival, Khangai
High in the Khangai, where the summer pasture is green and the yaks outnumber the…
Thousand Camel Festival, Gobi
Once a year the herders of the southern Gobi bring their two humped camels to a single…
Ice Festival, Khuvsgul
In early March Lake Khuvsgul is a sheet of ice a metre thick and a hundred kilometres…
Golden Eagle Festival, Altai
Every October, on a plain outside Ulgii in the far west, a hundred Kazakh hunters ride…
Naadam, the Three Games
Naadam is the one date on the Mongolian calendar that everything else bends around. For…
Festival dates are fixed by the organisers each year and confirmed on the call. Naadam day passes on their own are available for guests already in Ulaanbaatar: ask us about Naadam tickets.