Western Mongolia Fat Biking Expedition

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<span style="color: #000000;"><b>Ride Through Mongolia’s Wildest Landscapes</b></span>
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Pedal across vast alpine valleys, wind-swept passes, and high-mountain steppe where few travelers have ever set foot. This expedition takes you deep into the Altai—Mongolia’s most remote and dramatic region.

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<span style="color: #000000;"><b>Nomadic Culture and Eagle Hunters</b></span>
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Meet Kazakh herders who still live nomadically and practice the ancient art of hunting with golden eagles. Stay in a traditional ger camp and experience a way of life that’s remained unchanged for centuries.
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<span style="color: #000000;"><b>Fully-Supported Fat Biking Expedition</b></span>
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Ride light and free while a mobile support team handles the logistics. Your gear travels in 4x4s, a cook prepares fresh meals, and a guide leads the way—leaving you to focus on the ride and the views.
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<span style="color: #000000;"><b>Epic, Off-the-Grid Adventure</b></span>
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Disconnect completely and immerse yourself in one of the world’s last true wildernesses. No signal, no crowds, no distractions—just pure, raw adventure under endless skies.

<li>Pick-up and drop-off from Ulan Bator International Airport.</li>
<li>Three nights hotel at Hotel Nine (3* hotel) or similar.</li>
<li>Welcome dinner on arrival and departure days.</li>
<li>Internal return flights from Ulan Bator to Olgii.</li>
<li>2 western guides (Nacho and Kirsten).</li>
<li> Local English speaking guide/translator, cooks, camp assistant, drivers.</li>
<li>4x4 vans.</li>
<li>All camping equipment and private ger stays.</li>
<li>Fatbike and helmet.</li>
<li>Bike maintenance, tools and spare parts.</li>
<li>All meals in Western Mongolia.</li>
<li>A generator to charge electrical items.</li>

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<li>Tips to staff and crew.</li>
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Bringing an expedition like this to life takes a world-class team. That’s why we’ve partnered with Nacho and Kirsten—who’ve been running bike tours in Western Mongolia for over a decade—to make this journey possible.
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<b>Nacho</b> is trained as an instructor at the School of Mountaineering in Benasque, Spain. Later he worked as an instructor for the Cantabrian School of Mountaineering and subsequently as an instructor in wilderness survival techniques. He has done mountaineering expeditions as a guide with clients and friends to the Alps, Pyrenees, Andes, Central Asia, Africa, Patagonia and the Rockies. Biking has always been a passion for him and when we went to western Mongolia for the first time 11 years ago, we decided with no uncertainty that the best way to see the countryside was on a Fatbike.
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<b>Kirsten </b> has been a professional photographer/film maker for over 20 years, having worked on three continents for Frommers Travel Guides and organized photography and film workshops in Uganda, Spain, Morocco and Cuba. She speaks Spanish, French and English fluently. Outdoor adventure sports and especially biking has been a constant in her life.
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This is a <b>moderate cycling trip</b> in terms of physical effort and is 100% off-road. If you are a reasonably fit and confident cyclist who loves the outdoors and camping, this trip is for you.
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We will be covering between 25kms and 45kms per day with typically around 6 hours riding including stops for lunch. The terrain is variable, but for the most part we will be following hard-pack dirt roads or animal tracks.
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There are times that there are no visible tracks at all, biking across un-trodden steppe. Other days involve rocky descents where the fat-bikes really show their value, rolling over what would be intimidating rocks with total abandon.
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The support vans will be following us most of the time, so if you are feeling weary or don’t feel like riding at any point, the van will be there to take you.
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For the most part, the terrain can be described as undulating except when our route goes through the more mountainous areas where our path follow rivers upstream and we cross up and over into the neighbouring watershed. Depending on the amount of rain, we may or may not be crossing several streams and wet areas on several days.
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If you are one of those people who don’t think they’ve done a decent days exercise if they haven’t done at least 60k, there are usually options to extend the day’s ride with one of our guides.

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While in Ulan Bator we will stay in the Ulan Bator Hotel or similar. In Olgii we will be staying in the new Maksum Hotel.
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During the trip, we will be “luxury” wild camping. If you are a couple, you will be sleeping in spacious tents on cots. They are roomy enough to stand up in. If you are traveling by yourself, you will sleep in a 3-person North Face EV 25 basecamp tent with your own cot. Everyone will have a very comfortable rolling, insulated, inflatable mattress.
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Our camp is comprised of a cooks tent, a dining tent with tables and fold up chairs and of course a strategically located latrine tent. The latrine is an upright tent and we use a simple method of a freshly dug hole in the ground with a toilet and seat. Hot water will be available every day for showers (hand shower), which can be taken in one of two specifically dedicated upright tents.
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For the 3rd and 4th day and last two days at the end of the trip, we will stay in the typical Kazakh ger, which is slightly bigger than the Mongolian ger. They are very spacious with enough room to walk around, with raised beds and conventional mattresses. These gers are shared between 3 to 4 people.
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Do I need prior cycling experience?
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Some previous cycling experience is needed. You should be comfortable riding 15-30 miles (25-45 kms) per day, which is typically around 6 hours riding including stops for lunch
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How fit do I need to be?
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This is a moderate cycling trip in terms of physical effort and is 100% off-road. If you are a reasonably fit and confident cyclist who loves the outdoors and camping, this trip is for you.
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How many people are in the group?
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We keep the experience intimate and personalized, with a maximum of 10 travelers.
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Where does the trip start and end?
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The expedition starts and ends in Ulan Bator. Internal flights to Olgii are included in the price.
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What kind of fat bikes will I use?
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We will be using the extremely reliable and comfortable Trek Farley 5 fat-bikes on our trip.
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What’s the food like on the trip?
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Food in Mongolia reflects its history and geography. Mongolians have always eaten to stay alive. The nomads in Western Mongolia migrate 4 times a year with their herds of sheep, goats, yaks, cows, horses and camels. They can put up and take down their Gers within a couple of hours. This continual movement does not leave time to grow fruits or vegetables, so the diet is basically limited to fresh meat, milk, and anything they can make from milk such as yogurt, cheese and curd. The harshness of the environment doesn’t allow anything to grow naturally in abundance, so the nomad’s diet is fairly limited to say the least. A staple of the diet is Buuz, which are steam heated, meat filled dumplings. A vegetarian version of these can also be made.
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Thanks to comparatively well-stocked supermarkets in Olgii, we are able to bring a healthy supply of salads and vegetables, fruit, bread, sausage, pasta, pancakes and other foods, which the nomad population does not eat.
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We are also blessed with a cook who seems to be able to produce wonders out of nothing and is accustomed to catering to Westerner’s palates.
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Breakfast: coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cereal, yogurt, eggs, fried sausage, porridge with raisins and dried fruit, pancakes, toast, butter and jam, apples and oranges, watermelon, apple and orange juice.
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Lunch and dinner: soup and salad, rice, pasta, potato salad, beef, lamb, chicken, huushuur (empanadas), Mongolian koftas and fruit. We can sometimes get fish straight from the lake.
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We can also accommodate vegetarians and within reason, special diets. We are however limited to what we can carry with us and what we can purchase in the supermarket before we leave, so please keep this in mind.
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We will carry a limited amount of beer and vodka to share with our hosts when we stay with families along our route. There is a fairly good choice of beverages and food at the supermarket in Olgii including dried fruits, chocolate and biscuits. If there is something that you absolutely cannot live without, please bring it with you.
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What's the price of the expedition?
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The price of the tour is $5,995.00 USD per person for the 2026 departures.
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What are your payment terms?
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A non-refundable deposit of 35% is required to secure your booking and may be paid by major credit card (no credit card fees applied). The remaining balance is due 8 weeks before the tour starts.
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Upon receipt of your reservation deposit, you will receive a preparatory package with a receipt denoting your deposit paid and balance due date, trip confirmation, detailed itinerary, medical and liability release forms, trip insurance requirements, equipment list and other pre-trip information.
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Balances are due 8 weeks prior to departure. Balances may be paid by bank transfer or credit card (credit card fees applied) directly to our provider Goyo Travel.

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What's your cancellation policy?
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All requests for cancellation must be received in writing to Adventure Fix GO.
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Cancellations received more than 56 days prior to the trip departure date means a loss of your deposit (35% of the trip cost).
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The following cancellation charges apply and refer to the period during which we receive the notification of cancellation before trip start date, shown as a percentage of the tour price. However, in addition to the charges shown below, many international airline tickets have no refund value whatsoever and therefore, if your package includes international flights, there may be up to 100% cancellation charges for international airline tickets.
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<b>56-31 days:</b> 50% of tour price<BR>
<b>30-15 days:</b> 75% of tour price<BR>
<b>14 days or less:</b> 100% of tour price<BR><BR>
We strongly recommend that you obtain adequate trip cancellation insurance.
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Do I need travel insurance?
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Yes, we require that everyone purchase health insurance that covers emergency evacuation and repatriation. Olgii does have a hospital with around 100 doctors and they can take care of minor things such as broken legs, but if something serious happens, you will need to get back to the hospital in Ulan Bator.
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Can I bring my own bike?
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You are welcome to bring you own bike, but you need to organize the logistics of it. There's limited space available in the flight from Ulan Bator to Olgii.
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What’s the weather like in July?
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In the Altai Mountains, the weather is usually great in the summer, but it can be unpredictable. It may rain for a couple of days or we may get a 30-minute shower followed by bright sunshine.
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June, July and August are the summer months in Mongolia with daytime temperatures ranging between 20ºC to 30ºC and evenings around 10-15ºC. September is the start of Autumn and the temperatures can be expected to be between 10ºC to 20ºC, falling to 2-5ºC during the night. The weather is more extreme in the mountains and it can be quite hot during the day, only to see the temperatures fall dramatically come nightfall. One must come prepared with layers for all sorts of weather. Definitely bring a hat and gloves for the chilly nights when we are at altitude.
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How do I get to Ulan Bator?
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The main airlines going into and out of Ulaanbaatar are MIAT (the Mongolian National Airline), Aeroflot, Air China, Korean Air and Turkish Airlines. From Europe flights usually go via Moscow. From the East there are regular flights from Beijing, and direct flights from Osaka in Japan, and Seoul in South Korea.
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