26. July to 9 August 2008

After some excursions to the most beautiful sights of Mongolia, the stage approaches the capital of the "billion people nation" via further highlights such as the Yungang Caves (a World Heritage Site) and the Great Wall of China. As guests at an event to celebrate the Olympic Games, participants will witness this global sporting event in Beijing.

8 people

3,999 EUR

Flight from Germany to Ulan Bator, arrival in Ulan Bator, welcome from the tour manager and introduction to the programme, travel into the centre of Ulan Bator and check into hotel, dinner together in the centre of Ulan Bator eating typical local food

Breakfast together in the hotel, get the vehicles and receive brief instructions on handling the Toyota Land Cruiser; visit the Buddhist monastery of Gandan and explore the city of Ulan Bator, optional visit to the natural history museum with an exhibition of dinosaur finds in Mongolia, dinner together in the city

Breakfast in the hotel, load the vehicles and look at the route for the day; we leave Ulan Bator westwards on what are the last few kilometres of metalled road, have a picnic en route; we then take gravel tracks through wild country to Ogii Nuur lake, overnight in a ger camp near Ogii Nuur lake

Breakfast in ger camp, travel to Karakorum and visit the ruins of the former capital of the Mongolian empire: Karakorum is considered one of Mongolia's primary attractions and was founded by Genghis Khan in 1220. In 1990, the city ruins were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Continue to the monastery of Tövkhön Süm and to Khuislin Naiman Nuur Nature Reserve and the Orchon waterfall, dinner together and camping overnight

After breakfast, we will leave our camp and travel along the outermost edge of the Khuislin Naiman Nuur Nature Reserve towards Arvaikheer, lunch on the way; the route leads south towards the Gobi Desert, overnight in a ger camp and dinner in the camp

Breakfast together in the ger camp, today's route takes us into the South Gobi aimak which has the highest stock of camels of all the Mongolian provinces; it is said that over 200,000 camels live here alone. Packed lunch and after the break, travel along the Gurvansaikhan National Park to Dalandzadagad, overnight in ger camp near Dalandzadagad

Breakfast together, the stage for the day takes us into the South Gobi aimak which has the highest stock of camels of all the Mongolian provinces, packed lunch, travel to the Jolyn Am, also known as Vulture Canyon, visit the natural drama of the Valley of the Ghosts in Gurvansaikhan National Park. Here a river snakes through an ever-narrowing gorge up to 200 m deep, vanishes under icefields up to several kilometres long and drops down off the cliffs in four waterfalls. Travel to the sand dunes of Khoolt and Khongor and overnight in ger camp

Breakfast together, travel through the sand dunes and through the extreme southern tip of the Gobi Desert; travel north in the late afternoon, camp overnight and dinner together in the South Gobi Desert

Breakfast together in the camp, we then travel along the Moltsog Els sand dunes from the South Gobi aimak to Dundgobi aimak, picnic lunch, continuing north through the Mongolian steppes along breathtaking rock formations; the landscape becomes increasingly green and we camp and eat out under the stars

Breakfast together in the camp, travel continues towards Ulan Bator, picnic lunch, past the oldest nature reserve in the world, the Chentij Mountains, and then over almost endless gravel tracks onto the last few kilometres of metalled road into Ulan Bator, check into hotel in Ulan Bator late evening and dinner together

Breakfast in the hotel, unload vehicles and free time, dinner together in the city of Ulan Bator

Transfer to the airport and flight from Ulan Bator to Beijing, arrival in Beijing at midday and transfer to hotel; check into hotel, and first tour of the streets of Beijing together, dinner together in the streets of the Old City

Breakfast in the hotel, visit to the Emperor's Palace and Tiananmen Square in the centre of Beijing; after lunch, we will visit the most important temple precinct still in existence, the Temple of Heaven, dinner together in the centre of Beijing

Breakfast in hotel, travel towards Badaling and visit the Great Wall of China at Badaling, return to Beijing late afternoon, final evening together in the Champions Club with live transmission from the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, dinner together and overnight in hotel

Transfer to airport, flight back to Germany, arriving in Germany towards evening