Mongolia Travel & Tours

The wild two-humped Bactrian camel, camelus bactrianus ferus, is indigenous to Mongolia. It was domesticated at least three thousand years ago.

The camel is one of the tavunhorshoo,'five snouts,' the five domesticated animals of Mongolia on which the country's herding economy depends: horse, cow/yak, sheep, goat, and camel. Camels are raised all over Mongolia, but are found particularly in the four Gobi aimags (provinces) in the south.

Obtaining a Visa for Mongolia is a relatively painless and quick process. Visas are available for various periods of time but as a tourist a 60 day single entry visa is the norm, any longer would require an invitation letter and a clear statement of purpose concerning your stay in Mongolia. For a 60 day single entry visa an invitation letter is not normally necessary. Should an invitation letter be required, most travel agencies will provide you with a confirmation of your bookings with them which should do the trick. 

Mongolia has a number of embassies and consulates abroad which will issue visas previous to travel, please check with your nearest embassy as conditions and rates will vary from one to the other. You can often get these in a one day service that most embassies provide. If not it usually takes up to two weeks to process.

 

Remember, American's don't need to apply for a visa to Mongolia. 

One of the oldest, most revered and spectacular celebrations for Kazakh people, passed down from generation to generation, is hunting with trained eagles. It exhibits the real pride of the Kazakhs.

It won’t take long before you wonder who Sukhbaatar is – his statue astride a horse dominates the square named after him in Ulaanbaatar, his face is on many currency notes, and there is a provincial capital and aimag called Sukhbaatar. Ulaanbaatar was also named after him, literally meaning 'red hero'.
Born in 1893, probably in what is now Ulaanbaatar, Sukh (which means ‘axe’), as he was originally named, joined the Mongolian army in 1911. He soon became famous for his horsemanship, but was forced to leave the army because of insubordination. In 1917, he joined another army, found against the Chinese, and picked up the added moniker of baatar, or ‘hero’.

Chinggis’ grandson, Kublai Khan (circa 1216-1294), completed the subjugation of China, effectively ending the Song Dynasty (960-1279). He became the emperor of China’s Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Kublai established his winter capital in Tatu (‘great capital’), today’s Beijing. (So thoroughly have the Chinese erased the traces of the Mongol conquest that only two major monuments in Beijing remain: the Lama Temple and the giant white stupa in Beihai Park.)

The art of the ancient Mongol is rooted in, and an inseparable component of, nomadic culture and folk art.

Deer carvings on stone slabs are the earliest examples we have of Mongolian sculpture, dating to around the Bronze age. Thousands of these stones, most of which are scattered across the Mongolian countryside, are evidence of the skill and value of sculpture in ancient Mongolia

  Mongolians near Hovsgol lake celebrate the annual Ice Holiday in Febuary on the ice of the stunning fresh water lake, in the Northwest of the country.

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A tomb of a warrior and material objects of the period of the 13th century was discovered from the Bulshin Tolgoi area in Onon soum of Arkhangai Aimag by archeologists led by the history and archeology sciences PhD. D.Navaan. Judging from the materials objects taken from the tomb, the tomb is probable belonged to one of the warriors of Chinggis Khan

Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/. On the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the Great Mongolian Empire, under the initiative by the National University of Mongolia /NUM/, “The Secret history of the Mongols” book was published in English last year by the “Monsudar” printing house. A number of copies have been republished this year

Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/. A monument to D. Sukhbaatar will be renovated as a dedication to his 115th birth anniversary. He is known as one of the leaders of the 1921 people s revolution.