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SH07: Lunar new year holiday in Feb (3days)

Lunar new year holiday in Feb

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Tsagaan Sar is the Mongolian lunar New Year’s festival. It is often celebrated around the same time as the Chinese New Year. The White Moon holiday is celebrated two months after the first new moon following the winter solstice. Around the New Year people greet each other by saying “Amar mend uu”, a very formal greeting which one says to one’s elders. Mongolians also visit friends and family on this day and exchange gifts.

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Tour Info

Food & Drinks

Attractions

Itinerary

Land & People

Price

Tour Info

Region:	Central Mongolia
Activity:	Classic and Vacation, Leisure and sightseeing, Horseback riding
Travel length:	3 days
Season starts:	2011-02-02
Season ends:	2011-02-04
Travelers:	14 (max)
Child age:	2 ages (min)
Price:	250$

Food & Drinks

Meals in Ulaanbaatar: You may choose from a variety of food supplies in Mongolia. There is a wide variety of restaurants in Ulaanbaatar serving Mongolian, Chinese, Russian, European, Japanese, Korean, Indian and Latin American foods.

Meals in Countryside
Tourist Ger camp restaurant: Tourist Ger camp restaurant serve Mongolian and European dishes in Traditional Ger Restaurants.
Meals in tent accommodation: Our guide will cook breakfast and dinner when you are camping out. Dinners are three course meals plus drinks.

Attractions

Itinerary (3 days)

Day 01:Ulaanbaatar city, Bituun day (tsagaan sar eve)
Morning visit Gandan monastery and Drive to Terelj National Park, we will visit nomadic family. Usually Mongolia people prepare to Tsagaan sar holiday in this day. There you can see them preparing for the holiday. Tonight family members get together and the main dish is steamed dumpling (Buuz). Mostly relatives come to join, bringing Buuz and join the family. Today everyone should get packed in their stomach. Overnight in the tourist camp. (B/L/D)

Day02: Terelj NP, Tsagaan sar 1^st day
Today we wake up at 6.00-7.00 o’clock in the morning before sun goes up. According to do the tradition you should make a new years direction and pray for the sacred mountain and Mother Nature. As Mongolian tradition, today people wear new national clothes /deel/, and go for greeting with the oldest family member /grandparents/. Their grandparents kiss and greet young and old people, grandchildren. This is called Zolgolt(Greeting). They chat with relatives, eat national foods, drink /Airag / mare’s milk, play ankle bone shooting /national game/. After this we may visit another family by riding horses. Stay Overnight in the tourist camp. (B/L/D)

Day 03: Tsagaan sar 2^nd day, Horse ride in Terelj
Today we will wonder around the Terelj National Park on the horseback. We will ride a bit and visit and greet to some other families with our host family. This afternoon drive back to Ulaanbaatar.(B/L)

Land & People

"In today's troubled times, however, the world desperately needs what Mongolia has to offer: an uncrowded and wide-open landsscape populated by friendly people where you can be totally cut off from the frustrations, depressions and annoyances of modern life."- said Carl Robinson in his "Mongolia Nomad Empire of Eternal Blue Sky" book. Truly, Mongolia is one of the places that you can enjoy and relax with the nature's sound, its beauty and steppes. Sensational sightseeing of flower-covered steppe, sandy dunes and bare hills, badlands and gorges rise from flat desert floors. Also, you will be welcomed with the warmth of Mongolian people and will be pleased by their kindness.