Mongol Nomadic Life and Khustai National Park Day Tour from Ulaanbaatar

A cold wind runs fingers through the grass as the van climbs out of Ulaanbaatar and the city’s low-slung concrete gives way to an expanding steppe. By midmorning you’re at a tourist camp where ger roofs send out thin smoke and a small circle of musicians tune morin khuur strings. The cultural program is brisk and tactile: a tasting of dairy-based fare, a demonstration of felt-making, the sudden, resonant wail of throat singing, and a chance to try a painted bow and arrow under the patient eye of a local instructor.