Southern Mongolia in two weeks
2025
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne.
Petit Futé
Where to stay in : Oulan-Bator ?
The map of your stay "Southern Mongolia in two weeks"
Detail of the stay : Southern Mongolia in two weeks
How to get there - Oulan-Bator
Arrival in Ulaanbaatar
Steps: Oulan-Bator
The day can be spent visiting the Gandan monastery, and one or two of the capital's museums.
Places of interest : MONASTÈRE DE GANDAN
Walk in the steppe
Steps: Mandalgov
Departure for Baga Gazaryn Chuluuu, an amazing granite formation in the middle of the steppes. The place is ideal for walks, which will allow you to discover, among other things, a small ruined temple, nestled in a wooded gorge (the last trees before the desert!).
Places of interest : BAGA GAZRIN CHULUU
First steps in the desert
The road continues southwards, and we now enter desert areas. Several sites are worth a stop during the day, including the small Sangiyn Dalay Nuur lake and the ruins of Khukh Burd castle.
Ongiin Monastery
Another day's drive south leads to the Ongiin monastery. Situated at the entrance to a superb gorge, this immense monastery was razed to the ground by the Soviets in the 1930s. The ruins on either side of the river exude a very special atmosphere, and you can lose yourself for hours in the ochre light of late afternoon.
In the footsteps of the dinosaurs
The mountain landscape changes in a flat desert, to the cliffs of Bayanzag, whose bright red slice on the pastel of the decor. It was on this site that many dinosaur fossils were uncovered.
Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park
This is one of the country's largest parks. It offers a wide variety of landscapes. The Yolyn Am Gorge is a great place for walks along the river or on the surrounding mountain ridges.
Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park (continued)
Steps: Khongoryn Els
Further west of Yolyn Am are the country's great sand dunes, the Khongoryn Els, behind which lies an imposing mountain range.
Heading north
Steps: Khujirt
It's time to start heading back north, towardsArvaïkheer then Khujirt. The landscape alternates between steep mountains and flatter desert.
En route to the north (continued)
After a stopover in the last nomadic nomads, go on the road. There are few cultural sites on this very wild portion of the circuit, but you will enjoy unique scenery.
Arrival at Orkhon Falls
Steps: Khujirt
Arrival at the Orkhon Falls, after following the impressive valley carved out by the river in this still semi-desert landscape.
Places of interest : CHUTES DE L'ORKHON
The monastery of Erdene Zuuu
Steps: Kharkhorin
Departure for Kharkhorin and visit of themonastère d'Erdene Zuu.
Return to Ulaanbaatar
A day of road to go to Ulaanbaatar, possibly a stop in the Hustaï National Park, which houses the takhi horses (also called "De").
