Private, 2–8 guests
Winter Journeys · Western Mongolia
Winter with Mongolia’s Eagle Hunters
Spend time with Kazakh eagle-hunting families and accompany winter training and traditional outings led by local hosts.
PriceOn request
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The season most travellers skip.
Mongolia in winter is colder, clearer, emptier and — for several things worth seeing — the only time they happen at all.
Eagle hunting is a winter practice. Lake Khövsgöl can only be crossed when the ice is thick enough to carry a vehicle. Snow is what makes tracking possible in the Altai. Winter travel here is entirely workable with the right clothing, the right vehicles and shorter days on the road — and it delivers a country almost nobody else is looking at.
3 journeys in this theme.
Every one of these can be run privately and adjusted in length, pace and season.
Private or small group
Winter Journeys · Northern Mongolia
Lake Khövsgöl Ice Festival
Travel north for the Ice Festival and a carefully managed journey through the frozen landscapes of Lake Khövsgöl.
PriceOn request
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Maximum 6 guests
Wildlife & Wild Places · Western Mongolia
Snow Leopard Tracking in the Altai
A conservation-minded expedition into the Altai to search for tracks and signs of the elusive snow leopard with local wildlife specialists. Sightings are never guaranteed.
PriceOn request
View journey →What these journeys share.
The standards behind every journey in this collection.
Cold that is planned for
Vehicles prepared for winter starts, camps heated properly, and a clothing list we go through with you rather than email at you.
Shorter days, tighter plans
Roughly eight usable hours of light in midwinter. Routes are built around that rather than pretending otherwise.
What only winter allows
Frozen lake surfaces, eagle hunting at its working season, and tracks in fresh snow. None of these exist in July.
Warmth as infrastructure
Stoves, dry storage, hot food at the right times and enough contingency that a bad weather day does not become an endurance test.
Other themes.
Most travellers combine two. Tell us which two and we will build the route around them.
Start with the theme, not the dates.
Tell us what you actually want to see and we will tell you when it is possible and what it asks of you.
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