Date: 01 Mar – 02 Mar
| Overview |
Tsagaan Sar (White Moon) is the Mongolian lunar New Year’s festival. It is often celebrated around the same time as the Chinese New Year. However, Mongolians generally deny any Chinese origin or influence, so the celebration is sometimes referred to as the Mongolian New Year or Asian New Year when translated into English. After Naadam, Tsagaan Sar is the second-most important Mongolian holiday. TGM invite you celebrate the festival with real Mongolia nomadic people.
– Participate Mongols’ second biggest event
| Tsagaan Sar | Around the New Year people greet each other by saying “Amar mend uu”, a very formal greeting which one says to one’s elders. Mongolians also visit friends and family on this day and exchange gifts. A typical Mongolian family will meet in the home dwelling of the eldest male in the family. When greeting their elders during the White Moon festival, Mongolians grasp them by their elbows to show support for them. The eldest male receives greetings from each member of the family except for his wife. During the greeting ceremony, family members hold long pieces of colored cloth called khadag. After the ceremony, the family eats buuz and drinks airag (fermented mare’s milk) and exchanges gifts. The day before Tsagaan Sar is called “Bituun”. On this day, families gather together–immediate family usually, in contrast to the large feast gatherings of White Moon day–and see out the old year. Traditionally, Mongolians settle all issues and repay all debts from the old year by this day. Mongolians eat their fill at the Bituun meal, as tradition says that if you are hungry after Bituun you will be hungry for the whole coming year. Traditional food for the festival includes a grilled side of sheep and minced beef or minced lamb steamed inside pastry, a dish known as buuz. Tsagaan Sar is a lavish feast, requiring preparation days in advance, as the women make large quantities of buuz and freeze them to save for the holiday. |
Length: 2 days
Area: Around Ulaanbaatar
Type: private package tour
Date for 2025: 01 Mar – 02 Mar
Difficulty: easy – moderate (No experience necessary. Trips suitable for most ages and abilities)
| Prices |
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120 usd for 1pax
100 usd p.p for 2pax
Child policy: 0 – 3 years old baby free of charge
4 – 12 years old child 30% discount (counted as 1pax)
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| Detailed Itinerary |
We will pick you up from your accommodation at 08:00 o’clock & drive to our nomadic family in Khustai National Park (80 km – 1 hour on the paved road). Ritual “the reception” for the Tsagaan Sar. Ritual “the zolgolt”. After you would take the reception in accordance with customs, you will take part in a national game “Shagai” and “Alag melkhii orokh”. Ritual “to worship the ovoo”, a ritual pile of stones raised on top of a hill or on a Mountain pass. Every Mongolians come here with trays of food and other offerings and the oldest, most venerable member of the community, voiced words of gratitude and praise to the spirit of the Mountain and the neighborhood. After lunch time, we will drive to Khustai National Park (25 km on dirt road). National Park Khustai where re-introduction of the wild takhi horses (Przhevalsky’s horses) has taken place since 1992. Takhi is last wild horse subspecies surviving in the 21st century. It was discovered in western Mongolia in the late 1870s by the Russian explorer N.M. Przhevalsky. Then we will be spent at leisure hiking in the surrounding mountains for seeing the wild horses. If we luck we may see also maral deer & other animals. After that we will drive back to Ulaanbaatar (100 km – 2 hours on the paved road) and you will transferred to your accommodation.
- End time: 18:00 – 19:00 o’clock
- Total driving distance: 205 km
| Booking |
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Step1: 
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Step3: You will be received an Voucher & Invoice from us via email.
Step4: Select payment method and pay the Payment.
| Information |
- Above prices are changeable by changing components (kind of services) of the itinerary.
- This is a private tour and you or your travel buddies will be in the tour.
- Domestic flight companies accept only 10kg-15kg lugguge incuding your carry on bags too for free transfer.
- It is your responsibility to ensure you are in correct pick up location at correct time as stated on your booking form.
- No smoking in travel vehicles or aircraft.
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