Every Rara Avis guide is born in the region they guide. Every team member is an employee, not a subcontractor. No one in our organisation is a name you have not met.
Founded Rara Avis in 2016. Born and based in Ulaanbaatar. Set the operating principles that still shape every trip.
Kazakh from Bayan-Olgii. Speaks four languages and reads eagles by their wings. Our most senior field leader.
Logistics wizard. If a Land Cruiser can get somewhere by sundown, Temujin has already plotted three alternate routes.
Built Big Sky Lodge from the foundations. Runs all four Rara Avis properties with the same quiet intensity.
Born in the region they guide. No imports, no shuffling. You meet the person who grew up with the terrain.
Third-generation Gobi guide. Knows every trail, every herder family, every palaeontologist's schedule.
Has ridden with eagle hunters since 14. The bridge between Kazakh tradition and our guest experience.
Horseback specialist. Has crossed the Khentii thirty-one times. Speaks the old horse-nomad dialects.
Tsaatan reindeer herder family connections. The only female guide running taiga expeditions in Mongolia.
If Mongolia is home and this feels like the right kind of work, we want to meet you.