Trans-Mongolia Experience (Ulaanbaatar - Beijing)

Upon arrival at Ulaanbaatar Airport, you will be welcomed by our guide and then be escorted to check in a downtown hotel. The rest of the day is free for you to either rest at the hotel or explore the surroundings.

Accommodation: Ramada Ulaanbaatar City Center (4 stars)

After breakfast, we will commence this Ulaanbaatar to Beijing tour with the Gandan Monastery, which is the largest temple in Mongolia, to admire the solemn golden Buddha. Then continue our trip to Hustai National Park. We will spend the rest of the day taking in unspoiled natural landscape there and finding rare Perzevalski horses, also known as takhi. Meanwhile, our guide will escort you to visit the Ger Museum and then help you check in a ger camp for overnight stay.

When the night falls, you will be accompanied to have a short drive in the park to trace wild horses.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Ger camp in the national park zone

Today, we will continue our trip to the other natural reserve, Gorkhi-Terelj National Park famed for supreme scenery consisting of endless prairie, rolling hills, towering plants and strangely-shaped rocks, especially the Turtle Rock which looks exactly like a giant turtle craning its neck to the sky. Besides, you will be led to visit the hillside Aryabal Meditation Temple standing out against verdant grassland. At the end of the day, you will be accommodated in a ger camp for one night's stay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Ger camp

This morning, a private transfer will take you back to Ulaanbaatar. As we arrive at the suburb area, we will have a stopover at Genghis Khan Statue to take pictures. Then, continue our drive to the center of the city to visit the Genghis Khan's Square. You can also take pictures of the Parliament House on the north of the square. After that, our guide will escort you to visit National Museum of Mongolia and Bogd Khaan Palace Museum to have a general idea of both history and architecture of Mongolia. A local music and dance performance, Wonders of Mongolia, awaits you at night. After the farewell dinner, we will transfer you back to your hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Ramada Ulaanbaatar City Center (4 stars)

Today, you will take an international overnight train from Ulaanbaatar to Beijing, China. Our guide and driver will pick you up at the hotel lobby at the appointed time and then transfer you to the railway station. The train journey takes about 30 hours and you will arrive in Beijing in the next afternoon.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: an overnight soft sleeper train

Upon arrival in Beijing, you will find our guide and driver waiting for you outside the exit. After a warm greeting, a comfortable transfer will take you to our well-selected hotel. Our guide will help you to check in and would like to offer some recommended restaurants if needed. The reminder of the day is for you to have a good rest at the hotel.

Meals: No meals, advice freely available

Accommodation: Pentahotel Beijing (4 stars)

The Beijing portion of this trip begins with the Tiananmen Square seated in the heart of the city. Then we will head north through the Tiananmen Tower to enter Forbidden City for an exploration of the luxurious life of the royal family. After that, the trip continues to the Temple of Heaven where you could learn how national sacrificial rituals were performed in the past.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Pentahotel Beijing (4 stars)

A classical China tour is never complete without a visit to Great Wall sections. After breakfast, our guide and driver will pick you up at the hotel and transfer you to Mutianyu Great Wall which is renowned for dense watchtowers along the winding ramparts. A round-trip cable car is included to make the hiking much easier for you.

After getting down from the Great Wall, we will drive back to downtown area and, en route, have a distant view of the National Stadium, aka Bird's Nest. Then, you will be accompanied to spend a relaxing afternoon at the Summer Palace boasting gorgeous imperial halls, lush Longevity Hill and mirror-like Kunming Lake.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Pentahotel Beijing (4 stars)

This Ulaanbaatar tour to Beijing will come to an end today. After checking out the hotel, our guide and driver will transfer you to the airport and see you off. Bon voyage!

Meals: Breakfast