ARKHANGAI -ZAVKHAN - GOBI ALTAI - GOBI (19 days)

	ITINERARY
1 day	Arrival to Ulaanbaatar, transfer in hotel. Visit the Gandan Monastery, the biggest Monastery in Mongolia, built over 300 years ago,  ascent to the Zaisan hill, from where you can enjoy a beautiful panorama of the city and the surrounding hills, there you will find a huge statue of Buddha. Visit the Bogd Khan museum: Winter Palace of the last emperor-lama.
2 day	Leaving and coming to the lake Ugy, well-known for a lot of migrant birds where they stay during the summer season and for l' plenty of fish.
3 day	Departure to Tsetserleg. Visit to the temple of Zaya Gegeenii Sum, built in 1586 that hosts over 1000 monks, and visit the local market.
4-5 day	Departure to Uliastai passing through Jargalant village of province Bayankhongor.
6 day	Arrival to Uliastai, the capital city of province Zavkhan. This is one of most isolated city of Mongolia. Visit to the post office and local market.
7 day	Departure to the lakes Khukh and Tsagaan. Entrance to the National Park of Otgontenger, the sacred mountain covered with the snow. Excursion around the lakes. You will admire the mountain from the neighborhood.
8 day	Departure to the sand dunes of Borkhyn which are in the South of Uliastai on the way to go to Altai. Excursions around the dunes. In the evening you will come to Altai.
9 day	Visit the city and local market. Free time.
10 day	Visit of the valley of Aduun Chuluu. Excursion in the valley. Departure to the mountain of  Eej Khairkhain. Passing through Tayangiin Nuruu – the protected area for horses of Przjevalsky “Takhi” and for wild asses “Khulan”. You will see there flocks of animals. You will pass through the lake Buur and arrive to National Park of Eej Khairkhan.
11 day	Excursion in Eej Khairkhan, the mountain of nine natural  rocky pools, where the water comes down from a well to other with evocative effects.
12 day	Departure for the province of Umnugobi. Passing through villages Bayantooroi and Bayanundur.
13 day	The trip continues. Arriving to the National Park of Khongoryn Els. Camping in the tent. Excursion in the dunes, the height of some of those dunes reach 800 meters. In the evening, you will see the sunset in desert: a great show of surprising colors made from the sunset.
14 day	Visit to a herder family with camels, possibility to rent camels to ride. When you pass through Khavtsagait, you can see petroglyphs, then continue to Bayanzag – “flaming cliffs”, where the expedition of Roy Chapman Andrews in 1924 did the larger paleontological discoveries, finding an impressive quantity of discoveries among which the eggs, components and whole skeletons of dinosaurs of much unknown species until then.  Excursion in the land of the first owners of Land.
15 day	Departure and arrival near the Monastery Onghiin, visit of the Monastery recently restored.
16 day	Departure to Kharkhorin.
17 day	Visit to Kharkhorin, there lots of interesting and archeological articafts. Visit to the  monastery of Erdene Zuu built on the ruins of ancient capital and with the archeological cities. Departure to the National Park of Khustai.
18 day	In the early morning, it is possible to see Mongolian wild horses (takhi). Last day for the trip on the Mongolian path and arrival to Ulaanbaatar. Visit to the Museum Natural History. Visit to the Museum-Monastery of Choijin Lama, where original masks of Tsam dance and magnificent sculptures of Zanabazar are kept. Shopping. Folk show.
19 day	Departure