How much does a Mongolia tour cost?

The honest answer is that a Mongolia tour is priced per day, and the single biggest factor in the per-person cost is how many of you are travelling together. Here is exactly how our pricing works, with no packages and no hidden line items.

The daily rate (2026)

All of our trips — every fixed itinerary and every custom route — use the same transparent per-person, per-day rate in US dollars. The rate drops as the group grows, because the cost of the vehicle, driver, and guide is shared across more people:

• 2 travellers: USD 230 per person, per day
• 3–4 travellers: USD 170 per person, per day
• 5–6 travellers: USD 135 per person, per day
• Solo travellers: rates on inquiry — write to us and we’ll quote a fair single rate

The total price of a trip is simply the daily rate × the number of days. A 6-day Gobi loop for two people, for example, works out to USD 230 × 6 = USD 1,380 per person. The same trip for a group of four is USD 170 × 6 = USD 1,020 per person. Nothing about the itinerary changes — only the per-head share of the vehicle and crew.

What’s included

The daily rate is close to all-inclusive once you are in the country. It covers:

• An English-speaking Mongolian guide
• A driver and a 4WD vehicle
• All fuel
• Accommodation — ger camps and nomadic-family stays
• All meals while on tour
• National park and protected-area entry fees

In practice that means once your trip starts in Ulaanbaatar, the day-to-day costs of travelling across the country are already paid for.

What’s not included

We keep these separate rather than burying them in the headline price:

• International flights to and from Mongolia
• Travel insurance (we require it; bring your own policy)
• Festival tickets where relevant (for example, Naadam or the Golden Eagle Festival)
• Domestic flights where an itinerary uses them (for example, the flight to Bayan-Ölgii on the Golden Eagle tour)
• Personal expenses and souvenirs
• Mongolian visa fees, if your nationality requires one

Why group size matters so much

A Mongolia tour is, mechanically, a vehicle and a small crew moving across very long distances. Those costs are largely fixed whether two people travel or six. So the more of you share them, the lower the per-person rate — which is why a couple pays USD 230 a day each and a group of six pays USD 135. If you are a couple hoping for the lower rate, the honest move is to travel with friends rather than to join strangers: we run private trips only, with group sizes of two to six, and we do not combine separate booking parties.

A few worked examples

• Central Mongolia, 5 days, 2 people: USD 230 × 5 = USD 1,150 per person
• Gobi Desert, 6 days, 4 people: USD 170 × 6 = USD 1,020 per person
• Gobi and Central combined, 10 days, 6 people: USD 135 × 10 = USD 1,350 per person

These are the on-the-ground costs; add your international flights, insurance, and any festival or domestic-flight extras to get your full trip budget.

How custom trips are priced

Custom routes are not more expensive than the fixed itineraries — they use the same daily rates. If none of the published trips fits, we design one around your dates, group, and interests, then quote it on exactly the same per-person-per-day basis. About a quarter of the trips we run are custom.

The full, current rates and inclusions always live on the pricing page. If you’d like a real number for a specific trip, write to us with your dates and how many people are travelling, and we’ll send a complete quote — Baska replies personally, in writing.