HASH & GOBI MARATHON, MONGOLIA 2009

HASHING & DESERT TOUR in MONGOLIA
including the INTERNATIONAL GOBI MARATHON, September 13, 2009

Tour description:
8 days – Flight Ulaanbaatar – South Gobi & drive back to Ulaanbaatar

Day 1: Thursday, September 10, 2009
Flight from Germany to Mongolia

Day 2: Friday, September 11, 2009
Sightseeing Ulaanbaatar, Bogd Khan Palace, Zaisan Hill.
Afternoon flight from Ulaanbaatar to Dalanzadgad; Transfer through the Gobi Dessert to the Ger Camp. In the afternoon drive out to the Gobi Gurvan Saichan National Park to visit the impressive and famous Yolyn Am canyon. Here we walk through a marvelous and impressive canyon where we can see eagles, vulture, mammals and ibex. Probably we find some small glaciers and ice patches at the bottom and can cross them.
Meals included:
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 3: Saturday, September 12, 2009
In the morning drive out by car to visit a nomadic family. The family is having goats, sheep and other cattle. It is possible to do a camel riding. For a lat lunch you will return to the camp and later on you can relax or take a walk on your own. If you want you can drive out to Molzog Else and have a look at the Marathon course. It is possible to do exercise at the course and you can see the course from jeeps.
Meals included:
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner is a pre-race pasta party

Day 4: Sunday, September 13, 2009 – MARATHON DAY
If you do not join any of the runs/races you have the opportunity to do an alternate tour program.
After later breakfast we drive out to the Aimag center Dalanzadgad for walkd around. Than we drive through the marvelous and impressive Gobi Dessert to Mandelgovi and further to the small monastery. Here we will stay in the guest Ger’s of the monastery. In the monastery you find the biggest Ger in Mongolia (during this days). This is used as praying hall. Accomodation at Ger Camp.
Meals included:
Breakfast, drinks and food during the race (normal Marathon “food”), Dinner

In the morning, the sun is already raised, the air is cool and the sun send out moverless, lovely light the 
„7th. INTERNATNIONAL GOBI MARATHON MONGOLIA“ starts. 
The track is in the probably most impressive part of the landscape from the Gobi National Park.
Near the dinosaur excavation area, the track is going along and a small part  through the sand dunes in a wonderful landscape at all; the ground is hard sand and quite good for running. Further on it is going beyond and through the world wide known famous Saxaul forest. 
After the Saxaul forest the track is coming through a desert „Savanna“ area and finally near the famous big red sand stones beyond a nice gorge the finish line is reached. During the whole way nomadic people with their ger's and herd‘s are living and it always could happened that camels are crossing the track. But never the mind, the camels would not feel disturb neither from the runners nor from the red signal flags which shows the runners the correct way of the track.
Every five kilometers is a station with food and drinks, a small first medical help station, which hopefully no one would need. 

Accompanying persons could join the jeeps from one station to the next as well as the runners from the half marathon.
Breakfast at the Ger Camp during the morning. Different transfers to Marathon and Half-Marathon starting lines reaching there approximately 30 minutes before start. Your equipment as well as your clothes will be in one of the cars and drive to the finish line so you can change clothes there.
From the finish line there are transfers back to the Ger Camp for overnight. On the way we‘ll make photo stop. Also you can walk inside the dinosaur excavation area. In the evening is a small farewell party.

Day 5: Monday, September 14, 2009
We will sleep a bit longer today, after breakfast we have the chance to do a horse back ride, visiting famous sand dunes, back to Ger Camp.
Meals included:
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 6: Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Impressive Gobi Dessert sightseeing/alternate horse trekking, trasfer to airport flying back to Ulaanbaatar.
Meals included:
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Sightseeing in Ulaanbaatar, free time for souvenir shopping and time to relax.
Accomodation: Hotel Ulaanbaatar
Meals included:
Breakfast, Dinner

Day 8: Thursday, September 17, 2009
Breakfast in Hotel, transfer to airport, flight back to Germany (or where you started!)

Extention:
If you want to stay longer / extend your stay in Mogolia we can also offer you a wide range of adventure-, trekking- or sightseeing-tours. Price depends on booked tour programm!

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