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Our mission is to offer premium educational travel in Mongolia, featuring sophisticated interpretation and ethical mediated encounters with local individuals and communities, as a means of encouraging cross-cultural understanding and supporting cultural diversity.

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Herd of camels outside Xamar Monastery in the East Gobi

Visit Mongolia and discover the enchanting melodies of the "long-song" (urtiin duu) and horse-head fiddle (morin xuur), the ancient technologies used in making dairy products, the esoteric wisdom of Mongolian Buddhism, the tranquil life in a yurt on the steppe...

And explore the traces of the successive nomadic civilizations that built up their empires in what is now Mongolia—the Xünnü (Huns), Uighurs, Türks, Kirghyz, Mongols and Manchus—through visits to rock art complexes, ruins of ancient imperial capitals, deer stones and human statues, monasteries and sacred sites.

Discover Mongolia...

The heartland of Central Asia's nomadic civilization
Centre of what was once the world's greatest-ever land empire, founded 800 years ago by Chingis Xaan (Genghis Khan)
A crossroads of civilizations, influenced by the cultures of neighbouring China and Siberian Russia and crossed by generations of travellers on the famous "Silk Route" from Asia to the Middle East
A vast, sacred landscape home to shamans and monks, and dotted with thousands of ancient ritual sites—including the remains of more than 700 temples and monasteries from the peak of Mongolia's Buddhist rule
Motherland of the Great Gobi desert and its unique lifestyle based on the bactrian camel
The home of the sacred and pristine Lake Xövsgöl, mother of Lake Baikal
The second country in the world to embrace socialism (following the USSR); now one of the most rapidly democratizing nations in Asia
Realm of the urtiin duu, morin xuur and xöömii, musical forms that echo the resonances of the steppe
A land of blue sky and endless steppe...

With Mandal Tours, you'll experience Mongolia's historic monuments and cultural traditions in the company of local and international experts. Join an exclusive study tour interpreted by renowned local scholars and archaeologists, painters and sculptors, Buddhist monks, museum curators and others.

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In commemoration of the legacy and teachings of
His Holiness Dulduit Danzanravzhaa
Fifth Wrathful Noble Xutagt of the Great Gobi (1803-1856)

I did not overbearingly sophize
Nor preach with pride and arrogance
But having found a sense in this world
Spoke the truth of my dear heart.

portrait of Danzanravzhaa, Fifth Wrathful Noble Xutagt of the Great Gobi

scorpion, symbol of wisdom as used by Danzanravzhaa

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