3 days
Daily Tour
Unlimited
English
Mongolian Lunar New Year is the second most important national holiday of Mongolia. The herders celebrate the new year widely with tradition of greetings with snuff bottle exchanges and arm greetings.Therefore the highlights for this tour and celebration are playing traditional games, receiving gifts just for visiting and traveling on a horse. The tour is a great chance to experience a Mongolian custom and winter while traveling in comfortable transport and staying at a nomadic family not in the touristic area.
Meet in Ulaanbaatar with our representatives drive out of Ulaanbaatar and meet Nomad family members and hostess will cheer you by Mongolian traditional milk tea and pot roast. After that, you will start work and help them because that day is very busy because of New Year Eve according to the Lunar Calendar. You will enjoy the whole day with the nomad family as their family member. And then visit the neighbor nomad family by horse.
Overnight in the ger of the nomad family (L+D)
This morning Mongolians orientate and men climb the nearest hill or a mountain to see the first sun of the upcoming year to be more wealthy, in good health and full of success. It is a day Mongolians wear their nicest national dress “Deel”. Hostess makes traditional milk tea and offers the best of it first to the earth, then to their shrine, next to the oldest person of the family or host of the family and then serve each member of the family.
And then people greet each other by age category younger people come to elders in traditional ways of arm greeting. The gathered people in the nomad family play traditional game colorful frogs with the ankle bones, snapping ankle bones, racing horses, flicking ankle bones. You will easy to learn many different games and enjoy the Mongolian Culture.
Overnight in the ger of the nomad family. (B+L+D)
Breakfast with nomad family members and say Goodbye to them.
And then drive back to Ulaanbaatar. End the trip. (B)
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