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Trip Rating Details
Strenuous: Expedition style camping or stays with local families. Includes full-day hikes or rides over mountainous terrain, or other strenuous physical activity requiring good physical fitness. Extreme weather conditions may include very hot and dry conditions or cold, snow and ice.
Packing List
The packing list for this trip is supplied on booking. When you complete your trip application, please specify if you have previous dogsledding or winter outdoor sports experience.
Trip Information - Dog Sledding
Terelj National Park
This spectacular winter route takes you through the wildest parts of Gorki-Terelj National Park. The park features unique rock formations, scenic alpine valleys, a winding river, and many species of trees. The sledding route, which follows the courses of frozen rivers, gives us ample opportunities to visit and stay with nomadic families. Nomads don’t move during the winter. They stay at their winter camps where they have built shelters for their animals. They leave these shelters in the spring to move closer to rivers and new pasture lands for the summer, and return to their winter shelters after the first snows. Each afternoon and evening, we will spend time with our mongolian hosts, and learn the nomadic way of life, both peaceful and busy!
Huvsgul Lake
A place of a marvelous wild beauty in summer, in winter Khuvsgul is a wonderland for the adventurous. The lake is largely surrounded by a bluish crest of ice, formed by ice blocks pushed to the shore by the last waves of early winter, just before the subzero temperatures froze this immense expanse of water from shore to shore in a sheet of ice that may reach three meters in thickness. You will meet on the lake many local inhabitants, either fishing through holes drilled in the ice or traveling on a horse drawn sleds, the main mode of transport around the lake in winter. These unexpected meetings make traveling in winter fun and interesting in a way that visitors rarely experience in the summer months.
February 28 through April 17th
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