NOMADS
LUXURY TOURS
In Mongolia

What to Expect –
Mongolia Luxury Tours

Glam-Camping – Mongolia Luxury Tours

Our glamping concept has only been developed in the past few years – as part of our Mongolia Luxury Tours. The idea is to have true luxury at any, no matter how remote location. While with our ordinary camping we try to make our clients accommodation and food as enjoyable as possible, the nature of our programs require that the camps can be set up and put down within an hour or even less. That naturally means limitation to comfort. Not so with our Mongolia Luxury Tours via glamping. Via our Mongolia Luxury Tours we take time to carefully choose the location, set up the camp, transport all kind of things with us that make your stay comfortable, but as well beautiful things serving decorative purposes, like fire bowls, chandeliers and crystal.

Mongolia Luxury Tours – Accommodations

The accommodation takes place is a large lotus shaped tent, that is beautiful and spacious, has a king size bed with luxury mattresses and comforters, there are flowers and candles, comfortable armchairs, traditional woolen carpets,  and the windows open towards beautiful views. Heating here comes from electricity.

Mongolia Luxury Tours – Bathrooms

The bathroom here has running cold and hot water, a rain shower, beautiful fittings, clients would not only have towels, but bathrobes too. On our Mongolia Luxury Tours the only thing that you would miss in difference to a 5 star hotel is the company of other travelers that are not part of your group. That camp is built up exclusively for the purpose to spoil you and your friends or family. After you will have left, the camp will totally disappear too, same as what we always intend to do: leave without trace.

Mongolia Luxury Tours – The Kitchen

The kitchen team provides food and drinks that you would expect from a hotel too, despite that you are in midst of nature. We serve in a beautifully decorated dining tent. Our Mongolia Luxury Tours & Glamping is perfect for private journeys or celebrations, anniversaries. 

Feel free to contact us about your luxury needs and requirements.

In the late 1990s Nomads started to operate a small camp within the Terelj Gorki National Park, across the river from the Terelj village and a few km up the Duund Bayan stream. When new legislation came up, regulating the park usage, we left and looked for a space that is still in the nearby area, but same time secluded and beautiful with 360 degrees nature and landscape only. Luckily we managed to find just that and almost 20 years later it’s still kept those qualities, despite all the changes Ulaanbaatar and the counties road system experiences during that time.

We build 16 gers, all traditionally designed and with wooden floors, but equipped them with good beds and connected the ger space with individual facilities, offering WC, a shower and a washing basin, though on quite small space, still a feeling of luxury out there in the midst of nature.

A dining and kitchen ger is there too, inviting to buffet style meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, tea and coffee is available all day. As well there are secluded spaces, where guests are invited to sit and enjoy the surroundings or watch a traditional concert next to the fire place. The lodge is above the river Tuul, a naturally meandering river that comes from the Khentii National park The Tuul is one of the 3 rivers that has its spring in the holy mountain Burkhan Haldun, said to have been a place of meditation for Genghis Khans as well as supposedly his grave site. To take a dip into the water, a canoe ride down stream or a horse ride through the flood plains and up to a ridge of the nearby Bayanzurch Mountain, one of the 4 corner mountains of Ulaanbaatar, or hike in the surrounding wilderness are some of the many activities that our visitors are invited to do.

We established a friendly relationship with the surrounding Nomadic families, since we came there, then just 2 or 3 families, by now a view more. Our original idea, to blend into the typical appearance of nomadic settlements quickly proved to not working. Nomadic land use is all about grazing space for domestic animals. As our location is considered close to the city, more and more nomadic families settle in that area as it promises them a combination of the best of both worlds, continuation of their occupation and access to education for their children, healthcare for their elders. The result is a lot of pressure on the land, overgrazing of the slopes and the floodplain forests as well as the larch forests on the mountain.

Fencing of the surrounding of the lodge was there for unavoidable, but offered as well the opportunity to plant many bushes and trees all around the lodge. And in autumn we invite our nomadic neighbors to come and make as much hey as they like to, so they at least are not too upset about their animals having to abstain from eating trees and bushes during spring.

Another interesting vehicle that Nomads uses is a piranha 9 Airboat, made in Irkutsk by a small innovative company to take fishermen up small streams into inaccessible areas of Siberia. With this boat we can guarant constant access to our lodge, the Tuul Riverside Lodge. Depending on the time of the year either the River Tuul or some of the streams that flow into it, make it otherwise impossible to get there. Though our trucks usually still can wade through the river, sometimes the water does get too high and more importantly its actually not a good to drive through rivers as water gets polluted and the river bed damaged. Additionally its costs quite a lot of maintenance, water tend to end up in the differentials and bearings, requiring new lubrication and seal rings. To cross the mountain pass causes as well damage, in the wetlands during rainy season tires leaves deep cuts in the vegetation. The boat can cope with low as well as high water levels, does let no drop of oil into the water and enables the visitors to see some wonderful river life, especially families of ducks, sometimes cranes, black storks, beavers and owls.

Our cooks receive a lot of positive feedback from our clients, that’s for many reasons: As within our itineraries the kitchen crew accompanies the clients for many days, the cook has to carefully plan ahead, shop supplies and then travel together with the clients, sharing quite some time with them. For his own sake he or she would rather be with clients that are happy with the food. Secondly our cooks stay with us for many years and keep learning, from their own experience as well as from regularly cook training programs, where all our cooks help preparing some new cooks by cooking together and share experiences. Thirdly our office is not stingy with the food budget, so the cook can buy good ingredients additionally the conditions for cooking in our kitchen trucks are quite optimal. Last not least the “appetite is the best cook” and our journeys take our travelers to many exciting places in the fresh air, making them hungry. 

Not everyone likes the same food and not everyone likes the same amount of vegetables, meat, staple foods, do we eat the same size portions. Therefor whenever possible, Nomads would arrange meals as buffet style, so next to the table where the clients sit, or in the middle of that table, we would put a number of plates with food, for clients to help themselves.  

If there are more clients in a group, choices get bigger, but even a single traveler would get to choose from a set of plates that offer salad, staple food, different types of vegetable, one or more kind of meet and a desert for both, dinner and buffet lunch. Depending on the activity, lunches sometimes are not buffet but rather set menu and pre-packed.

For Breakfast we offer cereals, milk and bread, butter, eggs in various ways, jam, cheese, fresh vegetables, yogurt, and tea, coffee and juices.

We love to be challenged: In the past we have supported a wide variety of projects sometimes as a one-off, sometimes again and again since many years. Example here for are the support Nomads was able to give to the US air force Pacific Angel project, https://www.pacaf.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2000235402/ another one the Peking to Paris motor Challenge, that we supported every time since 2007  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpeP2vZBHaI or filming projects for documentaries as well as movies.