Warm up the milk and feed the baby animals: Our local guide will receive you at last bus stop at Terelj Protected Area. You will travel by ox cart or horseback to his home that is 7 kilometers north of Terelj River. Upon arriving at Mr. Chuka’s family, you will be served lunch and hot milk tea. After lunch, you will help him to heat the milk used to feed his new baby animals. The family will then serve you dinner and hot milk tea and you will overnight in his warm traditional felt Ger.

Sew a traditional Mongolian jacket: After your breakfast, Mr. Chuka will guide you to Ms Amarjargal’s family by ox cart or horse for 15km. Ms. Amarjargal will serve you hot tea and lunch which afterwards you will have an opportunity to help her to sew traditional jacket worn during the White Moon Celebrations. In the cold weather people wear warm sheep skin Deels (traditional long dress costume) with the jacket you will be making. These jackets are very colorful with decorative buttons on the right shoulder and no sleeves. In the evening, you will have dinner and hot milk tea with the family before retiring for the evening.

Make coverings (clothing) for the baby animals so they stay warm: After breakfast with Mrs. Amarjargal’s family, you will continue your journey to Mr. Bold’s family by ox cart for 5km. Upon arrival at Mr.Bold’s ger, you will be served a nomadic lunch and hot milk tea. In the late afternoon, Mrs. Battsetseg (Mr. Bold’s wife) will show you how to sew coverings used for the baby animals. The coverings will help them to stay warm during snow and cold spring dust storms. In the evening, you will have dinner and hot milk tea with the family before retiring for the evening.

Heat the water and feed the animals : After breakfast with Mr. Bold’s family, you can try to herd livestock and milk their cow. This morning you have an opportunity to learn how to stitch Mongolian traditional garments, try on Mongolian costumes and take a few amazing photos.  In the late morning, a herder will guide you to Mr. Ganzorig’s family by horse back or ox cart for 5km. At Mr. Ganzorig’s family you will be served hot tea and lunch. After your meal, you will have an opportunity to heat the water and food used to feed their family’s baby animals. In spring, it is often usual for it to snow in Mongolia therefore herders keep their baby animals inside their nomadic dwelling and feed them warm water and milk. After their feeding, you will have dinner and hot milk tea with the family before retiring for the evening.

Feed cows and horses: After your breakfast at Mr. Ganzorig’s family, you will continue your journey to Mrs. Uranchimeg’s family by ox cart for 8km. Upon arrival, you will be served a nomadic lunch and hot milk tea. After you meal and a short rest, you can help her to feed cows and horses. In the fall time herders prepare hay and fodders (sodium, combined feed, leaf bearing fodder, bran etc) for their livestock. In the evening, you will have dinner and hot milk tea with the family before retiring for the evening.

Departure: After breakfast, you have an opportunity to help Mrs. Uranchimeg to boil milk and make nomadic milk tea. Later you will be served your farewell lunch and tea to which Mrs. Uranchimeg’s son or husband will take you to Terelj river bank by ox cart or horse for 1km to 2km 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.