{"id":10339,"date":"2022-06-11T23:54:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/?p=10339\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T12:28:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T10:28:38","slug":"golden-eagle-festival-altai-mountains-tour-hiking-horse-riding-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/golden-eagle-festival-altai-mountains-tour-hiking-horse-riding-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden eagle festival, Altai Mountains tour hiking & horse riding expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 7-17, 2024<\/strong>: Immerse yourself in the heartland of uniquely captivating images. Untouched virgin landscape, snow capped mountain ranges, big lakes and rivers, wild life, ancient petro glyphs, upper paleolithi period artifacts during the golden eagle festival & horse riding expedition.<\/p>\n

Golden Eagle Festival
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\nLast part of the trip takes you to Bayan-Ulgii province where you immerse in a completely different atmosphere: famous Golden eagle festival! This festival is one of the traditional cultural heritages. During the two days festival, you have the chance to get thousands of amazing images of trained eagles and educate more about the Kazakhs\u2019 traditions. \u201cIt was especially interesting for us to see everything, including the national dress of hunters and horse accessories during the Eagle Festival. We also witnessed the eagles diving down from the peak of the mountain to their masters, and the young people competing with each other to capture leather bags. It\u2019s wonderful to think that all this is not just a game, but a way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

-Worldwide news-<\/em>
\nMighty hunters with their eagles gather for the Eagle-Festival every year. Last year, a 14year old girl named Aisholpan participated along with them. Her older brother became a soldier, so she decided to become an eagle trainer, as her father wanted her brother to be. Aisholpan won the \u201cBest Horse and Eagle Equipment\u201d prize at the festival and became the first female eagle trainer to gain recognition in the community. \u201cNational Geographic photographer David Edwards dubbed the golden eagles as \u2018dinosaurs with feathers\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mongolian Altai Mountains\u00a0<\/strong>
\nFirst part of the trip brings you into a magnificent area. The region is home to snow capped mountains; glacial valleys, forests and beautiful lakes and rivers create a majestic setting. The name \u201cAltai\u201d means \u201cGolden Mountain\u2019 in Mongolian. It is one of the last untouched wilderness areas of the Earth, the stunning beauty of these peaks \u2013 Mongolia\u2019s highest, with several reaching upwards of 4000 meters. Altai Tavan Bogd (Holy Five Peaks) has five high peaks, which have three large interconnected glaciers. The largest is the Potanin Glacier, which are 17 km long ancient petro glyphs. This area\u2019s climate is extremely unpredictable. \u201cYou may observe four seasons in one day: the sun will shine, but then it may snow or rain.\u201d Traveling through this spectacular landscape gives you the opportunity to interact with local nomadic families and experience the unique culture that has been preserved in this remarkable and isolated part of the world. \u201cAltai Mountains are one of the best walks in Mongolia and even one of the best in the entire world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Practical information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Language<\/strong>: The trip will be guided in English.
\nBooking: mail to info@zennergi.be
\n<\/strong>Food<\/strong>: Only vegetarian food will be offered, but for those who would like to have gluten-free or meat can be arranged.
\nParticipants<\/strong>: max 12
\nDates: September 7-17, 2024 (11 days, 10 nights)<\/strong>
\nPrice<\/strong>: \u20ac3415<\/strong> Included: Transportation during the trip, domestic flights, food and camp, 2 days hotel, Invitation for visa to Mongolia Excluded: Flights, visa to Mongolia (\u20ac50- \u20ac80) Contact: windhorses@yahoo.com
\nBrief travel schedule<\/strong>: 11 days
\nDay 1. Arrival in UB
\nDay 2. Flight to Bayan-Ulgii
\nDay 3 – 6. Trekking Altai Mountains and Potanin Glacier
\nDay 7- 8. Golden eagle festival day
\nDay 9 Hiking and experience own eagle hunting with eagle Hunters\u2019 family
\nDay 10. Flight back to UB
\nDay 11. Departure to EU
\nRegistration<\/strong>\u00a0will be until July 1 or to apply for visa: send a copy of your passport and address to info@zennergi.be. Extra short trips around Ulaanbaatar are possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 28-October 8, 2019: Immerse yourself in the heartland of uniquely captivating images. Untouched virgin landscape, snow capped mountain ranges, big lakes and rivers, wild life, ancient petro glyphs, upper paleolithi period artifacts during the golden eagle festival & horse riding expedition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travels","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14426,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339\/revisions\/14426\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10971\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennergi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}