HORSE RIDING
Mongolia is the best destination for horse and camel riding vacations. Explore Mongolia on horseback adventures and discover the Gobi on a camel trekking tour. Choose your Mongolia horseback riding tour that best fits your adventurous needs.
We will give you a new impression that you can not experience on normal trips. Please enjoy ‘real horseback riding tour’ which can be done because it is a Mongolian local travel company specialized for a horse riding tour. Please do not hesitate to tell us your request. Please trust the results of our company that has specialized in planning to travel by horseback riding for many years.
Horseback riding experience in Mongolia · Nomads homestay
Experience a tour that you can not do in other places where you can live with a local nomad in a homestay or ride through a majestic nature with a horse. Please try experiencing horseback riding on a Mongolian trip. Horse riding while watching the endless prairie and wide sky is very pleasant and refreshing. Mongolian horses are short, so it seems easy for beginners to get on. Please be careful from horse kicking, not to stand behind the horses. Enjoy relaxing riding trekking about leading horses. Experienced riders enjoy Mongolian meadows that go on unlimited. The grassland has strong direct sunlight, and ultraviolet rays are also powerful. Do not forget to take countermeasures goods such as hats and sunscreens, as there are few escape areas such as shade. Living with little water, electricity, gas, cars. We limit the number of travelers who can stay in a nomadic family (about 1 to 3 people). The tour guide will introduce you to nomad family members. Usually, there are large nomad families with parents, children, and grandparents. There is plenty of work to do such as milk a cow, goat and preparing meals, taking drinking water and fuel, caring for harness, es and playing with children.
Eagle Hunting Tours
Eagle hunting is a traditional practice among the Kazakh people in western Mongolia, especially in the Altai Mountains. The use of golden eagles to hunt animals like foxes, hares, and even wolves is a deeply rooted custom that has been passed down for generations.
Mongolian Wolf & Other Big Game Hunting
For those interested in more traditional big game hunting (though less common), Mongolia offers hunting tours for species like the Mongolian gazelle, wild boar, and wolves.
Bird Hunting
In addition to eagle hunting, there are also opportunities for bird hunting in Mongolia, where you can hunt species like pheasant and grouse, often using trained dogs or other traditional methods.
Where to Go: The Altai Mountains, located in the far western part of Mongolia, are the prime location for eagle hunting. Bayan-Ölgii Province is especially known for its Kazakh eagle hunters.
- Meet the Eagle Hunters: You’ll spend time with Kazakh hunters, learning about their unique relationship with their eagles. Many of these hunters have spent years training their birds, which are revered as both companions and tools for survival.
- Witness a Hunt: Depending on the time of year and the weather conditions, you’ll get the chance to see the eagles in action. The hunters and their eagles go after small game, like foxes, and you may also have the chance to see traditional hunting techniques.
- Cultural Experience: In addition to the hunt itself, you’ll also experience the life of the nomadic Kazakh people. Staying in gers (traditional yurts) and enjoying their food and hospitality is an important part of the tour.
Where to Go: The Gobi Desert and other remote steppe areas are popular locations for these types of hunts.
- Guides and Traditional Hunters: You’ll typically go out with local guides who are skilled in tracking and hunting these animals. Depending on the species you’re targeting, the hunt can be quite physically demanding, as it involves long days of tracking through vast, rugged terrains.
- Legal and Ethical Considerations: It’s important to note that hunting in Mongolia is strictly regulated. Most of the hunting tours are controlled by licenses that allow hunting specific species. Ensure the company you book through follows legal and ethical guidelines for conservation.
- Terrain: These hunts usually take place in mountainous or forested areas, where you’ll trek through rugged landscapes.
- Hunting with Dogs: Many tours include hunting with dogs, which are trained to flush out birds. This can be an exciting and interactive experience for hunters.
- Cultural Insights: Like other hunting tours, you’ll gain insights into the hunting culture of the Mongolian people and the skills they’ve honed over centuries.
Safety rules for horseback riding
Mongolian horses are kept in the form of natural nomadism. It can be said that the care by human beings is not relatively much from other horses. Mongolian horses are more nervous compared to other horses, but the horses are living animals, they kick if you are scared. Please be aware of the following when riding trekking.
Before horseback riding
To avoid surprising horses, please be careful not to drop hats, handkerchiefs, mufflers, etc., or drop the camera or backpack etc. As backpacks and waist pouches obstruct the free movement of the body, the horses are surprised by the chariari, roaring sounds, so please do not hold them as much as possible. Also as a sound, please remove as possible as the horse will be afraid of glowing things such as pins and knives and key holders. Please do not shirk bags, boarding bags. Horses are animals. Do not approach out loudly (voice of caught, cute, etc.), please. Also, please never approach the back half, please do not touch again. Because she kicks if surprised. Avoid clothes like flashy sounds, flashy colors such as red, yellow and pink, and fluorescent color kappa as horses are surprised. While horseback riding, please wear glasses as there are cases where insects, small flies, etc. will jump in your eyes. The flat shoes of the bottom are perfect for shoes. Please wear a helmet when you need it.
I'm going to ride a horse
When you get on a horse you must be accompanied by an instructor/guide/maid. Please be sure to leave when you get on or off. Please be careful not to go close to the back of the horse. When riding, first place your left foot on a sprout, sit on kat, then put your right leg on a stirrup. Be careful not to put both legs too much. It is necessary to be careful as to whether or not both legs are put in stirrup even while riding. When getting off, first remove the left foot from the stirrup for a while, then remove the right foot from the stirrup, remove the left foot from the ground after attaching. Most of the things getting off the ride above are safe because the guide will help you. Regarding maneuvering of horses, people in Mongolia have a maneuver on the left hand, and on the right-hand holds a whip or a bearded man. It is safe if you have a squirrel with one hand. Leading beginners should leave them to Guide. If you want to maneuver yourself and have your own maneuver with nature, hold one hand with your hands firmly. Also, it is important to pay attention not to overfeed both legs. If you want to go to the right, follow the struggle rightward and pull to the left if you want to turn to the left. If you want to move the horse, loosen the trickle a little, and please give me a piece of "chew". When you want to stop, you pull the trunk toward yourself. There are horses that will not stop if there are horses that stop only by pulling the traps. While riding a horse, please go while watching the situation on the road in front of you. Damage is caused by avoiding dirty livestock and animals, bumps on the road, dangles, flying in the wind, vinyl and dry grass, various iron wires, vinyl, paper, plastic bottles, Please take action slowly and steer a beloved horse carefully. In the unlikely event that a car or motorcycle comes out, you may be surprised by the horse, so do not panic, wait until you go straight through the car/bike with the horse stopping slowly. Although horses act collectively, some horses do not like going with other irregular horses. It is dangerous to take off clothes, eat food, drink, put out things, get rid of, or shoot while riding. Horses are surprised and sometimes run suddenly. If you want to stop, please call Guide without fail. By the beginning of the spring, as the horse's feet are just a little weaker, it will be in a state of easy falling. Always be careful to go at an average speed as quickly as possible to pull the trap. Please be sure to follow instructions from the instructor/tour conductor/guide and Nomad. If you want to take pictures during a break please also call out to Guide. Note: We can not assume responsibility for accidents caused by failure to observe the horse riding safety rules above.
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If you are considering traveling to Mongolia, leave it to a local travel agency with an English tour operator and English-speaking guides. Specialized tour staff familiar with Mongolia planned and arranged a Mongolian trip according to customers’ requests and budgets by incorporating experience and the latest information. Please make your own “private tour”. Our company is a Mongolian local travel agency Shine Zuuch Travel established in 2005 as a nomadic country, Mongolian sightseeing travel company and boasts 19 years of track record.
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