What is a Mongolian Ger (Yurt)?
The Yurt in Turkic language and a Ger in Mongolian Language is central Asian nomads’ traditional round shaped, felt covered dwelling. A Ger consists of wooden frame, columns, and a round window at the top, thin wooden poles and floor and ropes. Most of Ger materials are made of animals like felt- sheep wool, ropes- camel or sheep wool, horse or yak’s tail, and of course wood. Ger is portable, easily assembled and disassembled, and the most natural dwelling on earth.
What is a Tourist Ger camp?
Tourist Ger camp is the kind of traditional hotel which is located at or near tourist destinations. A Ger camp is the most common accommodation throughout the Mongolia. The Gers provide an authentic and taste of Mongolian culture and allow you to visit the remote wilderness in comfort.
A tourist ger camp has a number of Gers as a hotel rooms, a large Ger restaurant or a house restaurant. Ger camps services vary depending on camps to camp. You have in most cases opportunities of wildlife viewing, horse or camel riding, hiking, relaxing – sometimes Ger camp offer entertainment such as local folklore concert.
Accommodation
The tourist ger camps have approximately 15-40 Gers and each Ger normally has between 2 and 4 single beds in it, along with a traditional stove, a simple table, chairs and sometimes cupboards and wash stands.
There are 2 types of Ger in Ger camps.
- Standard Ger which is sole Ger without private bathroom.
- Ensuite Ger which has private bathroom attached to its Ger.
If you wish to stay at the ensuite Gers, please inform us in advance and then it will be reserved in advance. Some of the ger camp staff speak basic English while others speak English and other languages fluently.
Bedding in Ger
Each ger offers simple elegance. There are options of twin, double, triple and quadruple bedding. Single Ger can be arranged, however it may cost single room supplement for you.
Sanitary Ware
Many camps have fully equipped sanitary facilities such as hot and cold showers, sauna, laundry (some ger camps) and comfortable toilet separate building. For standard Ger, flush toilets and showers are located in separate blocks from the ger accommodations.
Ger camp Reastaurant
The restaurant is in a separate building or in a big Ger. The restaurant serves Mongolian traditional cuisine and European dishes as well.
Breakfast: All tourist ger camps serve western style breakfast in the morning. The breakfast usually included egg, bacon, bread, nutella, cereal, milk, toast, noodle bread, butter, jam, some buscuits and juice, tea or coffee.
Lunch: There are 3 course meal including 1. salad or appetizer. 2. Soup 3. Main dish. Soup could be western or Mongolian traditional which oriented to tourists. Then they provide main course which is Russian styled or traditional Mongolian. They portion is large. At the end provide dessert like candy or pie.
Dinner: Like the lunch. But usually no soup.
Electricity
Almost all tourist Ger camps near Ulaanbaatar and big settlement are connected to central electricity line and has 24 hours’ electricity. But some of the tourist ger camps which are located far away from the settlement area have a generator and thus have limited electricity.
