Playing traditional ankle bone game with the family: Our local guide will receive you at last bus stop of Terelj Protected Area. From there, you will go by ox cart or horses to his home that is 7 kilometers north of Terelj river. Once you arrive at Mr. Chuka’s nomadic dwelling commonly known as a ‘ger’, his family will serve you lunch and hot milk tea. After lunch, you will have plenty of time to learn the rules (on the spot) and play ankle bone game with family. There are many different games that can be played with ankle bones such as horse racing, shooting bones game, and making a turtle by bones etc. The family will then serve you dinner and hot milk tea and you will overnight in his warm traditional felt Ger.

Bonfire dancing with nomads on frozen river: After your breakfast with Mr. Chuka’s family, he will guide you to Ms Amarjargal’s family by ox cart and horse for 15km. Upon your arrival, Ms. Amarjargal will serve you hot tea and lunch. After dinner, you will have an opportunity to make fire on frozen river and have an evening of dance with her family; this will be your second overnight.

"Ice bowling" on frozen river!: After breakfast with Mrs. Amarjargal’s family, you will continue your journey to Bold’s family by ox cart for 5km. Upon arrival, you will be served nomadic lunch and hot milk tea. In the late afternoon, Mrs. Battsetseg and Mr. Bold will show you how they play ice bowling (seriously this is an authentic Nomadic winter game!) and you can have a friendly competition with them. In the evening, you will be served dinner and hot milk tea and will have plenty of time to settle down in their warm cozy environment.

Traditional game of 'Ankle bone shooting' on frozen river : After breakfast with Mr. Bold’s family, you can try to herd livestock and milk their cow. In the morning you will have an opportunity to learn how to stitch Mongolian traditional garments, try on some Mongolian costumes and take a few amazing photos.  Later, a herder will guide you to Mr. Ganzorig’s family by horse back or ox cart for 5km. At Mr.Ganzorig’a ger you will be served hot tea and lunch. Afterwards, you learn how to play “Ankle bone shooting” game on frozen Terelj River with family.  In the evening, you will have dinner and hot tea with family members and will overnight.

Learn how Nomads warm a winter shelter using wet dung: After your breakfast with Mr.Ganzorig’s family, you will continue your journey to Mrs. Uranchimeg’s family by ox cart for 8km. When you arrive at her family, you will be served a nomadic lunch and hot milk tea. After lunch, you have an opportunity to learn how to warm a winter nomadic shelter and fence for the livestock with family. In the evening, you will have a hot dinner and more tea with family members and enjoy your last overnight.

Departure: After your breakfast, you have an opportunity to help Mrs. Uranchimeg to boil milk and learn how to make nomadic milk tea. In the afternoon, you will be served a farewell lunch and tea. After your farewell lunch, Mrs.Uranchimeg’s son or husband will take you to Terelj river bank by ox cart or horse for 1km where you will await your bus or private vehicle hire.

In line with responsible tourism's best practice, we insist on an ortientation briefing - $25 Per Person Booking and Travel Orientation Training Fee
As our project office is working hard to develop responsible community based tourism in Mongolia, payment of the booking fee allows us to provide this important service. Our office team will assist withlogisitcs of your travel with the rural communities and provide you a pre-travel orientation so you stay in Mongolia is productive, some services include:
Booking your trip with local communities
Communications costs of your logistics (Ulaanbaatar and rural locations)
Travel passes and information packages
Travel orientation & information (local know-how and save yourself $100s)
Cultural sensitivity orientation & information
Basic Mongolian language training on key travel vocabulary
Mongolian language travel terminology sheet
Etc.