Nomadic life

The nomads' life of Mongolia changed very little since old days and Mongolia remains the last refuge of the pastoral nomadism, preserving and continuing the traditional cultural heritage of the many nomadic nations that once flourished on the present day territory of Mongolia.Today, approximately half of Mongolia’s population is still roaming the vast plains living in the ger and moving their campings several times a year on the grounds with no fence and tending more than 34.0 million livestock. Nomadic life thrives in summer and survives in winter.
The extreme climate and geography as well as the landlocked condition greatly influenced the Mongols wax of life who have always lived close to the animals and close to the steppes. The Mongolian nomads are often called 'five animal people', because the nomadic society is based on the five principal animals traditionally herded: horses, camels, cattle, sheep and goats. They also keep Tibetan yaks used for producing milk and cheese.

Nomads and wild experience tour

Firstly, we would like to introduce about ourselves who are staff here Travel Buddies and Tours company in Mongolia. We have great passion to develop tourism in Mongolia and according to the our slogan we offer fresh and unique tours to tourist all over the world.One of the freshest and unique tour is here nomads and wild experience tour. There is no best way to explore Mongolia staying with real nomadic family and learning a bit from their lifestyle.Most of tour company offer you stay with nomadic family learn them but the biggest difference between us, we afford tourists staying in ger,doing all works/ farming, milking and moving/ as a real nomad,living in the wild, no tourists, no bathroom, no shop close to the nature and livestocks as much as possible during the tour.Female tourists will learn cooking mongolian traditional meal/khuushuur, buuz and tsuivan/ , dressing mongolian deel, milking, producing diary products,cooking pastry,collecting dried duns, bringing water from river and play a big role as a nomad housewife in a family.Male tourists will study riding horse as a horseman, catching horses, bringing livestocks, securing horses /staying in the wild with horses at the night/ learning how to prepare racing horses, doing archer, firing, playing mongolian traditional games and building ger.We offer this tour with very interesting activities for a week in Khentii province where Genggis Khan was born. Khentii province is so beautiful place and one of proctected area of Mongolia. Following the river,there are so many nomadic families, we cooperate some of them and there is your area to have wild and nomads experience.You are independent to survive as a nomad use everything what they have surrounding,you will create and do what you eat and where you stay.

Nomads and wild experience tour description

We intoduce the tour detailed itinerary in the following:
Day 1
Arrival in Ulaanbaatar, we will pick up you at the railway station/airport. Check in and take a city tour including Sukhbaatar square, Gandantegchilen monastery and Natural history museum of Mongolia. Shopping and free time at your leisure.
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Day 2
Today we will drive to Binder territory of Khentii province /East of Mongolia/ and come to our host nomadic family who work with us and live there. It is time to start our wild life. Firstful, we will build our ger which is Mongolian traditional tent to stay. Ger is the truly universal traditional dwelling that has been adapted over the centuries to the realities of nomadic life in harsh steppes. It is incredibly warm in winter and cool in summer and is resistible to powerful winds without being fixed in the ground. Is is easily dismountable and transportable that is so important for nomads during their regular migrations.Ger consists of a wooden frame and is covered with felt. It weighs from 150 to 300 kgs and can be assembled and dismantled in approximately 2 hours. The interior organization of ger is identical everywhere: the door faces the south, the men’s place is in the west part, the north side is the place for honoured guests or old people as well as the place for the family altar, the east side is the women’s territory. The stove occupies the center of the ger. We will build our ger for 3 hours with host family's member.Have mongolian traditional dinner is cooked by household of host family.

Day 3
Gook Gook wake up and dress your mongolian deel /garment/go milking with household and she will teach you. Men will ride horses to bring baby livestocks to get milk them after milking moms. Women will learn cooking mongolian salt milk tea and pastry. Have lunch with your cooked pastry and milk tea. Then we will go to collect dried dung to fire , it is kind of hiking tour around the this area. Hope you come back with many findings.
We will learn to archer and play mongolian traditional game. Have mongolian traditional dinner is cooked by household of host family.



Day 4
Today your host family will introduce neighbors and families surrounding you by horse. It means one day horse trekking around beautiful area.





Day 5
This day we will learn producing diary products and have lunch. Then horseman teach you how prepare racing horses for Naadam festival and wrestling. Today we will learn how cook buuz/dampling/ and have nice dinner.Day 6
in the morning , free time, prepare yourselves to participate in 3manly mini Naadam festival through tourists.We will organize little contest about Mongolian traditional nomadic lifestlye,give small prize to someone who had good experience about it.


Day 7
Today is time to collapse our ger to keep it and drive back to Ulaanbaatar. Also say bye to our host family. Hope you have really good time with wild and nomadic lifestyle.