Expeditions / Mongolia
The Long STEPPE
Ten days, one horizon, and nothing in the way.
from $3,400
- Duration
- 10 days
- In the saddle
- 5-7 h/day
- Distance
- 25-35 km
- Level
- 4 / 4
- Group
- 8 riders
- From
- $3,400
The steppe doesn't do small. Grass runs to the edge of the sky, rivers cut slow loops through it, and the only fences are the ones you imagine.
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You'll ride Mongolian horses: small, tough and smarter than they look. Days are long and honest. You walk, trot, and canter when the ground opens up and the horses want to go.
Nights are simple. A tarp, a fire, a pot of something hot, and more stars than you knew existed.
Highlights
- ▸ Open-grass riding with no fences for days.
- ▸ Nights with a herding family: milk tea, horses, and stories you won't fully understand.
- ▸ River camps, cold water, and a fire you built.
- ▸ Eagles, marmots, and sometimes wild horses on the far ridges (sightings not guaranteed).
- ▸ A horse you'll be sad to hand back.
Adventurers.Group
The route.
01 · Days 1-2 · Meet the herd
Fly into Ulaanbaatar, then drive out until the road becomes a track and the track becomes grass. Meet the horses and the herding family who raised them. Saddle fitting, a short ride out, then first camp by the river. You'll learn the tarp and the fire on night one. Everyone carries a little.
25 km · 5 h · river valley · wild camp
01 · Days 1-2
Meet the herd
Fly into Ulaanbaatar, then drive out until the road becomes a track and the track becomes grass. Meet the horses and the herding family who raised them. Saddle fitting, a short ride out, then first camp by the river. You'll learn the tarp and the fire on night one. Everyone carries a little.
25 km · 5 h · river valley · wild camp
02 · Days 3-5 · Nothing but grass
The country opens and stays open. Long, steady hours across rolling steppe, a canter when the ground is good, lunch wherever the horses stop to graze. Camp moves every day. You'll start reading the sky for weather the way the herders do.
25-35 km/day · 6 h · open steppe · wild camps
02 · Days 3-5
Nothing but grass
The country opens and stays open. Long, steady hours across rolling steppe, a canter when the ground is good, lunch wherever the horses stop to graze. Camp moves every day. You'll start reading the sky for weather the way the herders do.
25-35 km/day · 6 h · open steppe · wild camps
03 · Days 6-7 · The family ger
Two nights with a herding family. Help with the horses, try the milk tea, lose at knucklebones. A rest day for the horses means a slow day for everyone: wash, mend, sleep in the sun.
Rest day · herder camp · ger
03 · Days 6-7
The family ger
Two nights with a herding family. Help with the horses, try the milk tea, lose at knucklebones. A rest day for the horses means a slow day for everyone: wash, mend, sleep in the sun.
Rest day · herder camp · ger
04 · Days 8-10 · The way back is different
A new valley, a high pass, a last river camp. On the final morning you ride back to where it started. It looks smaller now. Drive to Ulaanbaatar and a hot shower you'll appreciate more than any hotel.
30 km · 6 h · valley and pass · then Ulaanbaatar
04 · Days 8-10
The way back is different
A new valley, a high pass, a last river camp. On the final morning you ride back to where it started. It looks smaller now. Drive to Ulaanbaatar and a hot shower you'll appreciate more than any hotel.
30 km · 6 h · valley and pass · then Ulaanbaatar
Dates & prices.
June to September
Private on request
On request · $3,400 per person
RequestThings to know
A 30% deposit holds your place. The balance is due 60 days before you ride.
See the booking conditions for cancellations. Booking conditions
Where you sleep.
Under the tarp
Bedroll, sleeping bag, a fire within reach. The default.
The herders' ger
A felt tent, a stove in the middle, the family next door.
Bad-weather tent
For when the steppe decides otherwise.
Included
- ✓ Horses and tack
- ✓ Guides from The Frontiersmen and local horsemen
- ✓ All camp meals
- ✓ Shelter kit (tarp, tent, bedroll)
- ✓ Transfers from Ulaanbaatar
- ✓ Support vehicle where possible
Not included
- ✕ Flights
- ✕ Travel insurance (required)
- ✕ Sleeping bag
- ✕ Tips
- ✕ Personal riding kit