Beijing and Mongolia: Great Wall & Ulaanbaatar

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Tour Code: ODY-EA-003

Destination:China, Mongolia

Duration

10 Days

Tour Type

Private & Bespoke

Tour Style

Classic

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About This Trip

This 10-day East Asia tour begins in Beijing, China's capital, where you will visit the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, and Jinshanling Great Wall. Then take a flight to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capital. Spend the next few days exploring the Hustai National Park to see the beautiful wild horses, the Erdene Zuu Monastery, which is likely Mongolia's oldest surviving Buddhist monastery, the Khogno Khan National Park, which includes mountains, forests, steppes, and the Gobi Desert…

Itinerary Summary

DAY PLACE HIGHLIGHTS
1 - 4 Beijing Forbidden City, Jinshanling Great Wall, Temple of Heaven, Local Food Market, Summer Palace
5 - 6 Ulaanbaatar Hustai National Park with Horse Riding Experience
7 Karakorum Karakorum Museum, Erdene Zuu Monastery
8 Elsen Tasarkhai Hugnu Khaan Mountain
9 - 10 Ulaanbaatar Gandan Monastery, National History Museum and Chinggis Square, Zaisan Hill, Traditional Dancing and Khoomei Show, Departure
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Day 1: Arrival, Beijing

When your flight lands at Beijing Capital International Airport, your personal tour guide is already waiting for you here. It will take you about an hour from the airport to the downtown hotel and the guide will give you a brief introduction of your Beijing tour on the way. After checking into the hotel, you will enjoy the leisure time to recover from jet lag.

Beijing

Day 2: Beijing

Your exploration of Beijing begins from Tiananmen Square, the badge of Chinese political centre. From there, it is easy to get to the Forbidden City, where the previous emperors worked and lived 600 years ago. Walk from the Meridian Gate to East Flowery Gate, you will not only feel the mysterious ambiance in the royal palace, but also can see the Imperial Ancestral Temple where royal members worshiped their ancestors.

Afterward, continue to Jingshan Park to get a panorama view of the royal building complex and the surrounding area.

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Beijing

Day 3: Beijing

Today's journey is a visit to the Great Wall, which is what you can't miss in China.

To avoid the crowds and get a better view, you will be driven about 2.5 hours to Jinshanling Great Wall, one of the best-preserved sections that keeps many original features. You can do circular hiking on it for around 3 hours according to your physical energy. After that, drive back to Beijing at dusk.

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Beijing

Day 4: Beijing - Ulaanbaatar

This morning, you will firstly visit a local food market, where you can taste some local flavors, then to the Temple of Heaven - another masterpiece of Chinese architecture and a sacred place where the emperor visited yearly to pray for good harvest. In the afternoon, continue a tour to the Summer Palace before heading to the airport for your flight to Ulaanbaatar.

After arriving in Ulaanbaatar, be picked up and transferred to the hotel.

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Ulaanbaatar

Day 5: Ulaanbaatar - Hustai National Park

Drive about 2.5 hours to Hustai National Park, where you have a chance to run into Przewalski wild horses and learn about the history of the last pure wild horses. In the evening, take one-hour horse riding on the meadow.

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Hustai Nature Reserve

Day 6: Hustai National Park - Karakorum

Free in the morning to do further exploration on your own in Hustai National Park. In the afternoon, proceed to Karakorum, which was the capital of the Mongol Empire 750 years ago.

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Karakorum

Day 7: Karakorum - Elsen Tasarkhai

Firstly, visit the Karakorum Museum in the morning to understand the history of the rise and fall of this ancient city over the past hundreds of years. Continue to Erdene Zuu Monastery, the first Gelugpa temple in Mongolia which symbolizes the beginning of Tibetan Buddhism in the whole Mongolia. Afterward, go back for around 1.5 hours and reach to Elsen Tasarkhai.

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Elsen Tasarkhai

Day 8: Elsen Tasarkhai - Ulaanbaatar

Morning excursion to Hugnu Khaan Mountain will provide you comprehensive landscapes of sand dunes, small forest, and hills covered with rare bushes. In the afternoon, drive about 6 hours back to Ulaanbaatar.

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Ulaanbaatar

Day 9: Ulaanbaatar

Today's tour in Ulaanbaatar includes Gandan Monastery - the largest and most important monastery of Mongolia, the National History Museum and Chinggis Square where you will see the Parliament House, National Opera and City Hall. Later on, climb up to the Zaisan Hill to get a great view of the city. Enjoy traditional dancing and khoomei (Mongolian throat singing) this evening.

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Ulaanbaatar

Day 10: Ulaanbaatar, Departure

After breakfast, head to the airport for your onward flight back home.

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Richee Family Adventures

05 Aug 2025

Second Honeymoon My wife and I celebrated our 20th anniversary by spending a few weeks touring around Asia. We loved how Odynovo worked with us to craft a tour of what we wanted to see and how we wanted to see it. This was our first time traveling with a private tour guide, and it was truly amazing. they took care of all transportation, tickets, and everywhere we went we had someone who not only spoke our language, but was also very well-versed in the places we were visiting. We saw Beijing and then took a bullet train to Xi'an. In both cities we had tour guides who had done this "a thousand times," and as a result knew all the tricks on where to take the best pictures, what lines to stand in, where to eat, and what not to waste your time seeing. At one point our guide pulled out ponchos from her backpack when it started to rain, while another helped us haggle for a good price on a new suitcase. We were surprised by how much we loved China, and it is safe to say that is because of the quality of service we got from Odynovo. Oh, and the hotels were great, too! In our first hotel my wife fell in love with her breakfast soup that she had to have every morning, while in Xi'an we were right around the corner from the Muslim Night Market and were able to get to it in less than 5 minutes of walking.We are already looking to see what tours we will be doing next through Odynovo, as the service was amazing, the quality was remarkable, and the cost was very worth it for what we received.
Shannon V

05 Aug 2025

Fabulous! We had a fabulous experience with our guide and Odynovo walking the Great Wall of China, and all other sites in Beijing. We loved our Peking duck dinner. It was fabulous. Thank you, Sammie/Jing for a great experience.
domotic d

05 Aug 2025

Beijing Beauty It started off with a friendly face at the airport, with Roy, our tour guide.The week has been such a pleasure and a treat. From adventures to The Great Wall, Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden City, to local markets, delicious Beijing food and roof top tea houses.Roy and our driver, Mr. Zhou, were prompt in picking us up and driving us around safely.The knowledge and fact about history and Beijing that Roy knows and explains is amazing and the fact he could answer my weird and inquisitive history questionsnwoth ease was a treat.He made it so easy to enjoy ourselves and absorb all that was around us, he even takes great photos too! 😊Polite, kind and thoughtful and ever patient in letting us take our time with things that interested us.I would highly recommend this tour and Roy again and again.
Zarah B

05 Aug 2025

Amazing travel experience My name is Zarah M. Babangida a Nigerian and i visited Beijing with my colleagues from the office. During our 5 day stay in Beijing, Ms. Eva Ma, was our Tour guide and from the minute we came through the Arrival Gate of the Airport, we were embraced by her alluring smile and warm welcome. She remained consistent with her warmth, a kind and intelligent professional who exuded unique passion not just for her job as a tour guide but, even more so as a proud Chinese woman. Her outstanding insight and knowledge of the sweet Chinese history and heritage left us in awe. I couldn't be more proud and thankful that she was assigned to our group and she made our stay exciting, fun-filled effortless and knowledge packed. I absolutely commend her dedication to work which she depicted throughout our stay. I recommend her to every visiting tourist because to know Eva, is to love her. If it were up to me, i will increase her bonuses or upgrade her salary as i am sure most tourists would want or revisit for her sake first and then perhaps other reasons.Thank you Eva and keep the passion up🙌.

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