The Yak Festival is one of the most prominent festivals in Mongolia and is held every year on July 22 in the Orkhon Valley of Uvurkhangai Province. Nomadic culture in the Khangai Mountains is sharp, and the area has one of the highest concentrations of yaks in the world.

The event covers yak racing and showing, wild stallion and yak riding, milking contests, and other traditional Naadam horse racing, wrestling, and archery events.

The hugest Mongolian religious festival is Danshig Naadam, first held in 1639 to enthrone the 1st Bogd Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu. Danshig Naadam religious festival has offered a variety of cultural performances, including traditional folk dance and song, contortion, wrestling, archery, knuckle-bone shooting, and religious competitions since 2015.

Orkhon Valley Horse Festival is a unique festival because of its popular Orkhon Valley-listed in the historical sites of UNESCO. This festival will be an excellent choice for those who want to experience the land of horse riding and challenging competitions among men and the capability and beauty of Mongolian horses. You can experience many cultural rituals and contests related to horse and horse riders activities, including lassoing a horse, grabbing a lasso pole from land while riding a horse, horse bucking, race of foal horses. 

The festival of Gongor Bumba in Amarbaysgalant monastery is one of the most meaningful holidays for Mongolian Buddhists. This most extensive religious ritual will take place in August. Religious worshippers, followers, and lamas believe that the Gongor ingot ceremony brings abundant wealth and gathers once a year at Amarbayasgalant monastery. During the festival, there will be a tsam dance -worshipping ritual in the Amarbayasgalant monastery. 

Gurvan Saikhn National Park is the hugest national park in Mongolia. It covers 2,697,171 hectares of the 9 soum of Umnugovi province and Bayankhongor province in southwest Mongolia. The National Park was first built in 1993 and expanded to the current size later, where all the protected areas surround the Gurvan Saikhan Mountain range (Three Beauties of Gobi).

The national park presents the best attractions, including Bayanzag Flaming cliffs, Khongor dune, Khavstgait rock paintings, and Yol valley – Ice gorge. The clay from the former shores, hills, and soil of the Cretaceous period look like they are on fire during sunrise and sunset.

Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia, with approximately 1.3 million residents, being the biggest city in Mongolia, standing as its political, commercial, industrial, and cultural hub.

Ulaanbaatar is a captivating city that combines old and new beautifully. Visitors will find a vibrant city brimming with modern buildings, shopping, art, a thriving nightlife scene, and restaurants, a contemporary contrast to the timelessness of the country’s vast spectacle outside it.

Khovsgol Lake, commonly named  ‘the younger sister,’ to the famed Lake Baikal that lies around 200 kilometers to its northeast in Russia, is one of the largest lakes in Mongolia, Khövsgöl. Encompassed by a glorious national park of the same name, home to many towering mountains and sweeping valleys, Khövsgöl Lake is set in a fantastic location.

Though the waters are relatively poor in fish and marine life, Khövsgöl Lake exceptionally contains almost 70 percent of the country’s freshwater and was formed over two million years ago.

Mongolia's first and oldest Buddhist monastery, Erdene Zuu, is located in Ovorkhangai, about 2 kilometers (1,2 miles) Northeast Kharkhorin; founded in 1586 by Altai Khaan. Listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in the category of "cultural landscape of Orkhon Valley."

The monastery went through times of chaos and victory until finally, the Stalinist purges of 1937 were entirely out of business. It remained closed until 1965 and was permitted to reopen as a museum but not as a place of worship. In 1990, religious freedom was restored, and the monastery became active again.

 Gorkhi-Terelj National Park is a natural reserve and outdoor adventurers’ paradise located in the northeast of Ulaanbaatar. Gorkhi-Terelj National Park’s alpine scenery is incredible. It is one of the most recommended places to visit in Mongolia; its majestic mountain peaks are home to picturesque valleys, roaring rivers, and craggy rock formations charming yurt camps found here and there.

A plethora of great outdoor activities such as hiking, rock climbing, and river rafting are popular pastimes visitors would enjoy.

The Gobi Desert, the second largest desert in Asia and the fifth largest globally, develops into modern-day China and Mongolia, expanding its harsh, rocky terrain over 500,000 square miles. It is a striking sight and a significant distinction from most other parts of Mongolia.

The harsh, unforgiving climes of the endless Gobi Desert certainly aren't for the faint-hearted; that's what makes them so exciting to explore. With endless dunes, ancient rock formations, and desolate desert stretching out before you, venturing into the Gobi Desert is the adventure of a lifetime.