26 May 2025 - 09 Jun 2025 (15 days)
USD6,395 - No Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Dušan Brinkhuizen
Tour price (Per person): USD6,395 * GBP5,100 * EUR6,154 * AUD10,268
Single Supplement: USD720 * GBP574 * EUR693 * AUD1,156
Flight costs: USD390 * GBP311 * EUR375 * AUD626
In the heart of remote Central Asia lies a country that conjures up images of nomadic horsemen striding across barren, wind-swept plains, with the grand Gobi-Altai Mountains rising up above the endless expanse of the Gobi Desert. This land is Mongolia, a country of fascinating legend and history; a picturesque and awe-inspiring part of the world largely unchanged over the years, the heart of the once expansive Mongol Empire and what can rightfully be proclaimed a true wilderness!
Our Mongolia birding adventure offers the very special opportunity of venturing across the vast lake-covered steppes and through the verdant Taiga forest, with the ever-present backdrop of the lofty Gobi-Altai Mountains. We can look forward to superb birding in this gloriously scenic landscape with mouth-watering specialties including Altai Snowcock, Black-billed Capercaillie, Relict Gull, Pallas’s Sandgrouse, Black Woodpecker, Amur and Saker Falcons, spectacular Wallcreeper, White-naped and Demoiselle Cranes, Kozlov’s Accentor, displaying Oriental Plover, Mongolian Lark, Siberian Rubythroat, Guldenstadt’s & Eversmann’s Redstarts, Saxual Sparrow, Mongolian Ground Jay and many, many more! This really is a birding tour like few others and promises to be a most memorable adventure!
Altai Snowcock; Black-billed Capercaillie; Daurian & Chukar Partridges; Swan & Bar-headed Goose; White-naped & Demoiselle Cranes; Bearded, Himalayan & Cinereous Vultures; Golden Eagle; Pallas’s Fish Eagle; Saker & Amur Falcons; Stejneger's Scoter; Horned (Slavonian) Grebe; Oriental Plover; Asian Dowitcher; Swinhoe’s Snipe; Pallas’s Sandgrouse; Ural Owl; Henderson’s Ground Jay; Wallcreeper; Mongolian Lark; Siberian Rubythroat; Brown & Kozlov’s Accentors; Azure Tit; Long-tailed & Chinese Beautiful Rosefinches; Guldenstadt’s & Eversmann’s Redstarts; Saxaul Sparrow.
Siberian Ibex; Wapiti; Argali; Mongolian & Goitred Gazelles; Grey Wolf, Wild Horse (Przewalski's); Long-tailed & Alashan Ground Squirrels; Corsac & Red Foxes; Siberian Chipmunk; Tarbagan Marmot; Pallas’s & Alpine Pikas; Great Gerbil; Central Midday Jird; Long-eared Jerboa; Gray Dwarf Hamster.
Steppe, desert, mountains, valleys, ridges, wetlands, pine & birch forest, grasslands, meadows, rivers.
Moderate to hot with colder nights, especially in the higher lying areas
10 with 1 Rockjumper leader and local birding leader
Mostly comfortable. Variable weather & some long field days offset by relatively easy birding/wildlife watching.
Different, but mostly comfortable, including traditional gers, tourist gers & regular hotels.
Mostly easy, in very open conditions. Some trickier species that may require much more effort.
Spectacular scenery, ancient deserts, pristine wildernesses, incredible history and culture
Can be good to very good, but often impacted by distance & heat haze.
This was a wonderful tour--beautiful scenery, great birds (many rare), mammals (many rare) including snow leopards. Throw in the adventure of driving through the Altai Mountains and the quest for snow leopards, it really was everything you would want in a tour. Nigel Redmond and Atilla Steiner were excellent at finding and identifying the birds and mammals. I had been to Mongolia before on a non-birding trip and very much enjoyed this beautiful and fascinating country, but most of my bird and mammal sightings went unidentified. The gers were comfortable and even the moonlight walks to the outdoor toilets were enjoyable. And I have to put in a plug for our ground agents who shepherded us around Ulaanbaatar on a quest for trinkets, souvenirs and sights.
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