Delgermaa.
About this host
Delgermaa, known to travelers as Degii, runs a small tour company based in Ulaanbaatar that designs trips across all of Mongolia, from the Gobi Desert to the Khuvsgul lake region and the Altai mountains. She studied in the Czech Republic and has traveled extensively through the country's provinces, and she and her team work closely with nomadic families who host travelers in their own gers.
The team's range runs from short trips near the capital, such as Hustai and Terelj National Parks, to longer journeys combining the Gobi desert, horse trekking at the Eight Lakes, and visits to reindeer herders and eagle hunters in the north and west. Multi-day horse treks, camel rides in the dunes, and stays with nomadic and Tsaatan families are a consistent thread through the listings.
Guests repeatedly mention the warmth and care shown on the road, being looked after with blankets, home cooking and attentive guiding through long off-road days, and describe Degii and her drivers as professional and genuinely knowledgeable about the country and its people.
Trips are mostly private and custom-built around what travelers want to see, arranged by message with detailed day-by-day itineraries, using 4WD vehicles, UAZ trucks or vans with an English-speaking guide and driver. Delgermaa often guides personally and says her focus is sharing Mongolia's nomadic traditions and culture, learned in part from time spent living with herder families.
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We booked a 12 Day Gobi Desert and 8 Lakes Trip offered by Delgermaa. She and her driver were nice and welcoming people from the start, carried our luggage all the time and cared for travel members, when they needed warm blankets, medicine or had any other request. Mongolia itself is a beautiful and vast country, filled with nature and amazing views. That said: It is an adventure trip where you sleep in nomadic round tents (Gers) most of the time. Showers, heating or the Internet are not a given in this country. So it is perfect as a digital detox trip for people, who want to dive into a totally different culture of animal herders and Nomads - something that practically does not exist in western industrial countries. Booking this trip, you will meet those people, experience their lifestyle a bit, drink their fermented camel and horse milk (very interesting taste), taste their cheeses and almost exclusively meat based dishes. You also get to see the most amazing nature from the back of horses and camels and walk on high dunes of the gobi desert. But you also need to prepare for a lot of mostly off-road driving, which is necessary and sometimes taxing in this huge and sparsely populated country. Delgermaas driver is a professional and knows how to drive his old russian Uaz-Truck well. You still need to plan in several hours of driving per day. All in all, we had a good time, where we saw the ancient culture of Dschingis Khans ancestors. With the help of Delgermaa and her associates, we could also see facettes of the country, that would have been impossible to see without them. And that was definitely an amazing once-in-a-lifetime-experience.
Degii did a great job putting together our customized trip and including all of the things we hoped to see and do. Not only did we get to enjoy two multi-day horse treks in different parts of Mongolia, we also got to spend a couple of days at the Naadam Festival in UB! We couldn't have asked for a better trip :)
This was an amazing trip and the guided tours were wonderful! I'm so glad I did this!
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