The beautiful lake Huvsgul
The festival involves a great variety of activities and competitions, including Ice Sumo, ger building with ice, ice skating and sleigh rides, all on or by the shores of the beautiful Lake Huvsgul.
Snow and Ice Festival Tour
Enjoy the day skating on the ice of Lake Khuvsgul
Each March, residents of Khuvsgul Lake area celebrate the Festival of Ice. The festival involves a great variety of activities and competitions, including Ice Sumo, ice sculptures, ice skating and sleigh rides, all on or by the shores of the beautiful Lake Khuvsgul.
This two-day event is also a shamanist ceremony of offering and provides a fascinating insight into the Tsaatan people's way of life. For a trip with a difference!
What we expect
Realistic travel conditions, comfort level, and daily experience explained clearly
Feel the winter
Snow & Ice Festival with Discover Mongolia!
Feel the winter
Snow & Ice Festival with Discover Mongolia!
Snow & Ice Festival
Snow & Ice Festival with Discover Mongolia!
Itinerary
Day-by-day travel plan with highlights, distances, and activities
In the morning, meet our representative at your hotel lobby. Drive to the airport and we will have a flight to Murun, (Approx. on air 560 km, 1.5 hour & paved road 120 km, 2 hours). Arrival in Murun, our guide and a local driver will take you and drive to Khuvsgul National Park.
Stay overnight in Ger camp. (L+D)
After breakfast, attend Ice festival opening ceremony, Ice carving competition, Ice Sumo wrestling, Ankle bone shooting, and Shaman Ceremony and National Folklore concert. You will watch the bonfire and sacrificing a shamanic ceremony. Free hiking by the lakeshore and horse sledding.
Overnight in Ger camp. (B+L+D)
After breakfast, watch a marathon of skaters and a horse sled racing on the lake. After lunch, you will be driven back to Murun (Approx. on paved road 120 km, 2 hours, on air 560 km, 1.5 hours) You have opportunity to support locals to buy souvenir shopping.
Check in your selected Hotel. (B+L)
Price & Date
Tour cost, departure dates, and price differences
Pax based price
Pax 1
1,269 USD
per person
Pax 2
926 USD
per person
Pax 3
811 USD
per person
Pax 4 or more
754 USD
per person
Tour schedule
What's included
Accommodation, transport, meals, guide, and entrance fees covered
Services included
Shared accommodation at Ger camp
Private transfers
Internal air tickets - free luggage allowance is 15 kg
English speaking guide
All meals as listed
All entrance fee
Horse ride
Services not included
Personal expenses
Optional activities
Camera fee for museum & monastery
Travel Insurance www.WorldNomads.com
Good to know
Important tips, weather, packing advice, and local travel notes
The best time to make this trip
May to September is the best season, with the peak season in July for the Naadam Festival. July and August are also the wettest months of the year but be assured, our climate is such that you will still have many sunny days at this time. The best time to visit the Gobi is June or September.
Accommodation
We believe that comfortable, welcoming accommodation is vital to the enjoyment of your trip. You will be staying in a standard 3-4 star hotel in Ulaanbaatar and a tourist ger camp (traditional dwelling) with currency (220V), shower and other useful services (2 to 4 people per ger) in the countryside. All accommodation offered by Discover Mongolia is personally checked by our staff to ensure high standards.
Meals
In Ulaanbaatar, you will be dining at fine European and Asian cuisine restaurants. Mutton, beef, rice, and noodles form the basis of the Mongolian diet, so your meals will be based around this. However, the trail rations may include vegetables, eggs, peanut butter, cheese and sometimes yak! On some days there will be lunchboxes from tourist camps. It is good food and our experience has been that guests are happy with this arrangement. Please let us know in advance if you are a vegetarian. Alcohol is not provided on the trip but tourists are free to bring their own.
Transport
Discover Mongolia use the highest level, latest model, air-conditioned private vans or 4WD vehicles for the maximum comfort on your touring days. A day's drive in the countryside will be approx 200-250km.
Personal things to bring with you
Warm thin layers of clothing are the best such as bring a waterproof jacket, and a hat and headscarf to protect you from the sun and winds. Don't forget insect repellent, sun cream, lip-gloss, water purifying tablets and first aid kit (medicine for headache, cold, diarrhea, runny nose; bandages; any medicine prescribed for you ). All your camera equipment.
Reviews
Genuine traveler feedback from real experiences in Mongolia
We highly recommend traveling to Mongolia and choosing Discover Mongolia as your travel agency.
We took a family trip with our 20-year-old daughter for 13 days in August 2025.
It was a customized trip based on the standard "Discover Mongolia Tour - 14 days", as we only had availability for 13 days.
Northern, Central, and Southern Mongolia: from Khuvsgul Lake to the Gobi Desert. Ulaanbaatar and Terelj National Park.
The value for money on our Discover Mongolia trip was very good. We believe the price was very reasonable for the quality of the services provided...
Discover Mongolia Tour
Oyuna was my guide Nandia was my driver on my Discover Mongolia 16 day tour. It started in Ulaanbaatar and was an extensive trip around the Gobi desert to the south up to the Khuvsgul Lake in the north. There were only three guests.
Oyuna was exceedingly knowledgeable and available virtually 24/7. Her personality was well suited to being a guide and she is a teacher of English in Mongolian schools. Nandia seemed to have knowledge of every pothole in Mongolia and was a great driver with a sense of humour...
Mongolia - a great way to experience.
I took the Discover Mongolia Tour (14 Days) and added 3 additional days (with 1 additional day at Khongor sang dunes, Kharkhorin and Lake Khurvsgul)). I am so glad for the additional days as it allowed us to spent more time to these spots as opposed to constant travelling.
I have been to many places and would highly recommend Mongolia. It reminds me very much of New Zealand where you have vast lands, more animals than people and very scenic. But you get to see and experience difference things from what you get at New Zealand...
Don't wait to discover Mongolia!
I would highly recommend Discover Mongolia Travel, they are well organized, knowledgeable and above all care about providing the best service possible. I did the Discover Mongolia 16 day trip with the Naadam Festival.
Mongolia is an amazingly beautiful country, from the Gobi desert to the Central plains and into the the Northern Lakes area ,we were constantly surprised with the beauty of the country. Our guide Oyuna was so helpful and informative, she took care of our small group (9 people) to make sure everyone was comfortable and happy.
Good company if you avoid dealing with Zaya
The owner of this company is an honest person who refunded us US$100 for an additional tour Zaya cheated out of us. The refund came with a small bouquet of flowers with a note of apology for what we had to endure because of Zaya's deceit - giving us an unqualified tour guide who barely spoke (due to extremely limited English and knowledge) and not fulfilling some of the items of our tailor-made tour.
We had flown 5000km to Mongolia to have a special cultural and horseriding experience in Khuvsgul region, only to discover at last minute some agreed items were not possible. At USD 3,300 for 2 persons sharing one accommodation, this tailored 5-day tour is not cheap, but cancellation refund is only 50%...
Our amazing and memorable Mongolian experience
Our 16 day Mongolian trip in July this year with Discover Mongolia was for Sue and I very special and memorable. It was so well organized and all the many amazing places we visited and things we did every day were exactly as had been itemized in the tripItinerary. We were a group of 9. We travelled in 3 fairly new Lexus 4x4 vehicles. Our route, with a few diversions, was from the Gobi Desert in the south to Lake Khovsgol in the very north.
Our 3 Mongolian drivers were great fun and really good drivers especially off road… theyseemed to navigate by instinct … we never ever got lost…..!! And our Mongolian guide Oyuna was just the best. She spoke perfect English as and had a great understanding and knowledge of Mongolia...
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