Eagle Festival Tour

ABOUT TRIP

$2328

9 days / 8 nights

This fantastic Golden Eagle festival combined cultural photographing tour takes place in Western Mongolia, on Altai mountains, one of the longest mountain chains in Central Asia. There are about 250 eagle hunters around Bayan Ulgii province. Every year about 100 eagle hunters participate to this Eagle festival with their specially trained Golden Eagles.

>Spectacular events include competitions based on speed, agility, and accuracy of these magnificent Golden Eagles and some great Kazakh traditional games such as Kokbar, archery and traditional horse racing etc are also organized on the festival days.

This fantastic Eagle festival celebrating the Kazakh’s honored Golden Eagle is also a celebration of Kazakh traditional heritage. The highlights of this fantastic trip is interacting with the Kazakhs and other ethnic groups and living with them for a couple of days to take part in the eagle training and hunting, camel riding and get to know about the unique Kazakh culture. Landscape and cultural sightseeing blend easily in Mongolia – you will have the chance to visit families of nomads   – there are also endless opportunities for photography.

“Mongolian Nomad Kazakhs are only people in the world, who still keep their unique nomadic style of life, which has strong connection with hunting with golden eagle. Immerse yourself in the unique landscape, culture and traditions of Western Mongolia and gain an intimate insight into the lives of local eagle hunters. Accompany these fascinating mountain nomads on their hunts, and explore the breathtaking countryside.”

TRIP DETAILS AT A GLANCE

  • Tour length: 9 days / 8 nights
  • Dates: 29th Sep- 7th Oct 2020
  • Arrive/Depart: Ulaanbaatar/MONGOLIA
  • Tour level/type: Easy  Adventure
  • Transport: SUV, Land cruisers
  • Lodging: 8N Hotel / 1N Ger camp
  • Meals: All meals included
  • Costs: $1776 tour cost  +$552 RT internal Airfare   Total: $2328USD

Days 1-2

Arriving to Ulaanbaatar, then to Bayan-Ulgii

Arrive to Ulaanbaatar (UB), capital of Mongolia. Our driver would pick up you at the Ulaanbaatar Chinggiskhan international airport, then you would get to transferred to hotel which is located right at the center of Ulaanbaatar, very close to Sukhbaatar main square.

Our guide would meet you at the lobby at 18:00 and would give some briefing about the tour then we would have dinner at one of the know restaurants. Be ready to fly to the west tomorrow morning for the Golden eagle festival!

Depart from UB at early in the morning via hunnu airlines and Arrive to Ulgii after 3 hours of flight, in the morning. We would pick up  you from Ulgii airport by our SUVs then we would take you to our hotel. Depending on your flight arrival time we would visit museum in Ulgii town before the lunch. After lunch we would drive out to Boken mountain which is about 2700 meters high from sea level, to see the Ulgii town from up high. You would have chance to take great landscape pictures. After that we would visit a local nomad family in the region to observe the way of kazakh nomad people. Late afternoon we would come back to our hotel and would have dinner at 18:30 at Turkish restaurant in town. After dinner we would have small welcome party.

Day 3

Experiencing Nomadic Culture

Are you ready for a full adventurous day? Today we are heading to an eagle hunter who lives in the countryside. We would drive through beautiful mountainous area via beautiful Tolbo lake to the destination. We would have some stops to get pictures of beautiful landscape pictures and the nature. On the way we would visit a famous shaman throat singer and we would stop at Tolbo village center, then to the eagle hunter. We are going to have lunch at a beautiful spot at Tolbo lake. After the lunch, we would visit eagle hunter’s family where you would have chance to get in to the nomadic culture and would have deep knowledge of hunting with eagles. We would have time to shoot photos of beautiful Sair mountain (13000ft) from our camp and may have chances to ride horses close to our campsite. After the dinner we would have a shaman ceremony. Great opportunities to get great photos, uniqe for Kazakh tours!

We would set up a temporary ger camp (Ger means Mongolian nomad tent, or yurt) on the foot of 4000 meter high Sair mountain, only for this group. We are going to stay 1 night at this ger camp.

Day 4

True Life Hunting with Eagle

More exciting activities are waiting for you! After a big western style breakfast in our ger restaurant we would go for eagle hunting. It is like safari, that we would use our cars to get some mountains and on some places we would hike with the eagle hunters. There is going to be about 6 eagle hunters joining together. Our eagles might catch fox, rabbit or other smaller animals. It is very rare that eagles catch wolf. Also we would have chance to talk with eagle hunters and ask questions about eagle hunting. On some point we would have to drive up on the mountains to follow the hunters while we would have chances to photograph incredible landscape. After the hunting we would drive back to Ulgii city which is gonna be 2 hours from the place where we are. We would stay at hotel for 3 nights for the coming eagle festival days.

Days 5-6

Golden Eagle Festival

It is going to be the most exciting 2 days. Are you ready?
After the breakfast at our hotel, we would move to Hunter’s hill at 10:15am in the morning which is the place where the eagle festival is going to be held. At this place we would give you the printed copy of itinerary of the eagle festival. Also we would give some information about the eagle festival just before you have your breakfast. At the hunter’s hill you will not have interpreter or guide with you all the time. Because there is going to be only 2 guides for the group. But if you need assistance anytime you can go to our gers at the eagel festival site and call the guide on the walkie talkie. He would be right there. We would keep update you with the events happening there.
We have gers (Ger means Nomad tent ) at eagle festival site, so anytime when you want you can use the ger to rest or to get warmed up and have tea and coffee. Only Kazakh tour clients have this chance. We would serve lunches at these gers.(Like the picture on the right)  Dinners are in the town, in a restaurant.  Let us know in advance if you need a private interpreter for these 2 days. But we do not recommend, coz just no need.

Days 7-8

Departure to Khovd Province & Ulaanbaatar

After the breakfast at our hotel we are going to drive heading to Khovd province. On the way we would drive through the Tsambagarav national park and would visit a nomad Mongol family, then to Khovd province. for lunch we would have special Mongolian meal called Khorkhog. The way of cooking this meal is very interesting.. You would learn more while you are there! We would have some additional options for those who doesn’t like meat. After this special meal we would drive further to Khovd province, where we would visit local Budhis temple. There would we much more interesting things that are not written here. Then we would check in to hotel and gonna spend the night here in town. After the dinner you would have enough time to pack for the flight tomorrow.

We would depart Khovd in the morning and arrive to UB by mid day. You would get transferred to Khuvsgul lake hotel after you arrive to UB airport. Then you would have the whole afternoon to explore the city or shopping. Mongolian cashmere products are popular. By 19:00 we would have farewell dinner.

Day 9

Heading to Next
  • You would get transferred to airport for your international flight. Hotel check out time is 13:00.Up on request, Altai Mount Travel team can organize tour extensions- such as day tour to Great chinggis khan’s horse riding statue and terelj national park or any other custom tour.  (pls email nurka.jyeniskhan@gmail.com )

    Note:

    Altai Mount Travel has the rights to change the tour itinerary at last minute to make the tour better depending on the local affects, like weather conditions, airline schedule etc.

    Do not hesitate to call/whatsapp (+976) 9040 8888 or email us (nurka.jyeniskhan@gmail.com) if you have any questions.

Tour Costs

$1776 tour cost  +$552 RT internal Airfare   Total: $2328USD pax
Single supplement: $350USD. hotel nights in Ulgii and UB except one night stay at ger camp. Dates: 29th Sep- 7th Oct 2020
Discounts available for group signs

Domestic Flights: UB-BU-UB

Aeromongolia ( www.aeromongolia.mn ) and hunnu airlines ( www.hunnuair.com ) have flights to Ulgii but all the air tickets would be sold out 7-8 months prior to the eagle festival date. So it is recommended to get booked your flight ticket as earlier as you can.

Or You can get your round trip flight tickets booked by our team that we have reserved many air tickets for our clients. /Recommended/. Round trip air tickets cost 552USD. Kazakhtour is not getting any profit on arranging airtickets. We are happy to serve you!

Note: Both Airlines increased the air ticket prices by 72% for the dates closer dates to Golden eagle festival.

Tour cost includes:

English speaking local guide
Accommodations (including ger camps and tents)
All meals included
Military permit & National Park fees
All camping gear, including Dinning tent, Camping tents, tables and chairs etc.
Horses for riding.
Transport including pack horses and camels to carry gear
Airport transfers to and from group flights
Camp Crew

Tour cost doesn’t include:

International airfare, domestic airfare, airport departure taxes, any meals not specified in full itinerary, optional tipping or gratuities to camp crew and leader, any additional hotel/ ger camp nights that may be necessary due to domestic airline schedule changes or other factors, pre-trip expenses of medical immunizations, visa fees, travel insurance, and other expenses of a personal nature (alcoholic beverages, laundry, etc)

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