Bayan-Olgiy is about 1600 km from Ulaanbaatar (capital city of Mongolia). Aero Mongolia and Hunnuu air flies to Olgiy every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Moreover, if one wants to travel by bus, there is a bus service which from Dragon bus station every day. Certainly full loaded.

In order to ensure uninterrupted trip, the bus have two drivers. The bus will start from Ulaanbaater through Uvurhangai-Bayanhongor-Altai city-Khovd and finely Olgiy.
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Olgiy is famous for attracting guests from many different places with its food. There are many people who are attracted by the lust for Kazakh food prepared by the families and restaurants. Askhana means restaurant, Chaikhana means cafe. Since the signs are written in Mongolian most of the times, it is easy to find them.

‘Pamukale’ is a Turkish restaurant where you can enjoy the tastiest and most interesting food. The restaurant is comfortable and serves European, Kazakh, Mongolian, and Turkish dishes and it is one of the fanciest places in Olgiy.

Obviously those who visit Olgiy would order Kazakh food first of all. The Kazakh dishes here are anyway the most favorite ones among guests visiting this place.

When you go to Olgiy, you should definitely try such specialties like sirne, besbarmak and of course kazy. It will be very tasty and special meal. Also you can find this traditional dishes in “Arvin”, “Bai-Olke” restaurants.

Bayan-Olgiy aimag is famous for its pristine nature, there are many interesting things to see in Olgiy. Olgiy’s local research museum consist of three sections- nature, ethnography, repressed people and history, and has over 5,000 displays. In the ethnographical section, there are household things and belongings that belong to different national minoritie, Kazakh national ger, national clothes, musical instruments, jewelry and many other interesting displays.

Other sections also have interesting displays wort spending time to see. During weekdays, it is open from 09:00 to 18:00 and on Saturday it is open from 10:00 to 17:00. There are ancient stone monuments in the yard of the museum. If you travel during Nauryz and Eagle festival, you will see national horse riding games during these holidays in both city and the countryside.

If your travel doesn’t coincide with the holidays, you can hear the sound of dombra (traditional musical Kazakh instrument) and enjoy kazy (traditional dish) by visiting a Kazakh family.

Altai Tavan Bogd Complex covering an area of 636 ha of land is a special protected area which was established in order to protect the king peaks of Altai such as Altai Tavan Bogd, Turgenii mountains, Rashaan Dungurukh, Songino, Yolt mountains and Khoton, Khurgan, Dayan mountain ranges and where wild animals like snow leopards, fallow-deers, altai snowcocks, beech martens, wild sheep and ibexes. The Altai Tavan Bogd Mountain is located in 185 km from Olgiy city.

The highest peak in the most western part of Altai Tavan Bogd is the Khuiten peak that is 4,374m high. Also, Altai Tavan Bogd has such permanent snow peaks as Nairamdal, Malchin, Burged, Naran and Huiten. Altai Tavan Bogd is also famous with its glaciers. The Potanin’s glacier is 20 km long, 5 km wide, and there are Grane and Alexander glaciers as well. In Tavan Bogd, one has an opportunity to ride a horse, go for hiking and get acquainted with the lifestyle of Kazakhs and Tuvans.

Many foreign and domestic tourists come here to climb to the peaks of Altai Tavan Bogd. Although tourists come here throughout the year, the most favorable months are July to September. During this period, the weather is mild and the gorges at the glaciers can be properly seen.

Altai Tavan Bogd is an area with pristine nature which is the most appropriate for traveling in the wild nature and it is possible to climb the mountains almost only through two routes. If you want to travel to this area full of peaks, you should contact ‘Sayat Travel’ (www.Mongolia-Altai-Adventure.com, 976 99425394 tourism company owner Erlan).

The company organizes mountain climbing, trekking, hiking, horse and bicycle riding tours in this area. Moreover, during winter season we offer hunting and photographing trips, visiting local nomad eagle hunters family, staying with family and horse ride with an eagle and going for hunting.

In the eastern body of the Altai Tavan Bogd, in the valleys of Baga Oigor and Usain Tsagaan rivers that stretch on an area of 5 km long 500m wide, there are many ancient historical places with over 10 thousand cave paintings. This historical memorials so densely concentrated in one place are not only rare in Mongolia, but also in the whole world. The memorials of this place were named as ‘’The Open gallery under Sky’’ by scientists.

They are very special in a sense that they illustrate numerous stages in the history of human development. They are at least 8,000 years old and are protected by UNESCO as the world heritage.