If this is the only adventure you do in Ulaanbaatar, you would not regret it. Felt like a friend of a friends family welcomed me into their home, not an “organized online tour”. Originally, I thought how authentic and unique can we get if we are going through a worldwide booking company for an adventure. Much like most of you reading these reviews, you’ve been on many organized tours that barely scraped the surface and left you wanting more. What this felt like was, a friend of a friend organized for me to hang out with their family for 6 hours. That’s what this felt like and that’s exactly what most of us are after if we are traveling to remote places like Mongolia. How many of your friends and family have ever been to Mongolia before? I don’t know anybody and everybody I’ve spoken to that are my friends and family also do not know anybody that has been either. This experience was absolutely essential to my travel experience. Bee and Soy are the most beautiful welcoming humans ever. We started off with a hotel pick up which involved getting a taxi to their home on the outskirts in gher district. Soy Provided us with some snacks as Bee and I sat down To chat. He taught me a lot about the gher that they live in. We eventually started working on the main course which was sheep heart and sheep rump dumplings, and soup. It was so incredible to learn about the meet that we were preparing and the importance of not wasting anything. As we ate, we talked about Mongolia even more. After dinner Bee and Soy sang songs to help digest, what a delight! Bee Showed me some bones and the importance of keeping them as the Mongolians use bones for so many things, including games, fasteners, and toys. We eventually made our way out of the gher to head back to my hotel. I cannot recommend this tour enough and I’ve never left such a glowing review for any organized trip before. If you are in the area and have an afternoon/evening available, this would be the best option.

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