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What is most popular tourist attraction in Mongolia?

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Mongolia is one of the least popular tourist destinations in the world and actually opened to the world just over 20 years ago after the soviet regime collapsed.  There are neither popular historic cities like Forbidden City or beach and resorts in Mongolia due to the geographically landlocked country between Russia and China, and for centuries even until today this is nomadic culture and life style dominated country.
There are around 300,000 tourist visited annually according to the national statistics but if it includes the business travelers it is nearly 500,000 visitors coming to Mongolia. Major travelers are from European Union, USA, Canada, Australia, Korea, Japan, Russia and China.
Their interests were based on wild life, natural background sightseeing, culture and tradition, religion, active vacation including horse riding, biking, hiking, and history. Most of the visitors planned a week or longer period to stay and travel.
What is most attractive thing in Mongolia? According to the survey from the State Bank of Mongolia 80% percent of the tourists were satisfied for their journey in Mongolia. 70% of the tourists were enjoyed experiencing and meeting the real life of nomads.
When we asked our clients last year about most liked part of the itinerary and tourists said the moment of spending a time with local people, who are sharing their nomadic culture was most remarkable. And next was the popular sites of Gobi desert, fresh water lakes and rivers and wide open green steppe without fence, also the hills and valley filled with white sheep and domestic animals in half wild rather traditional farming style.
The old man who was sheep herder for all his life can share his life long rich story and untold legends from ancestors, and share his wisdom about nomadic life, which is tied to the nature. Young people can show you how they gain their knowledge and obtain their education beside riding a horse and herding a sheep. The children will be playing with their “organic” toys of wood, stone and ankle bone called “shagai” besides modern toys.
One of our most popular destination is Gobi and almost 40% of our clients go there. When we asked our Switzerland tourist after traveling around the “Flaming Cliffs” – the paleontological zone, Vulture Canyon – the rocky mountain in the Gobi desert and “Khongor” Sand Dune with activities of riding a horse, two humped camel, staying in the Ger (yurt) he said “the most unforgettable moment was visiting the old man who lives in ger in the gobi desert and herding his camels and horses”.
Our goal is to satisfy our visitors to Mongolia and we always let them to have a moment of meeting locals and sharing the culture.

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