Guided Mongolia Steppe Bike Tour

A guided bike tour includes a professional local guide who rides with you throughout the trip. The guide handles navigation, manages daily logistics, ensures safety, and shares cultural insights. In addition to the guide, you also have a support vehicle that transfers luggage, provides water/snacks, and offers on-route assistance or a lift whenever needed. You simply follow the guide and enjoy a fully supported experience.

Your guides are local cycling experts, fluent in English, with deep knowledge of the region’s history, culture, and food.

On our guided tours, we ensure you begin your ride feeling comfortable and well-supported. Your guide and local team play an active role in getting your bike properly set up. **Before Your Tour** When you book, we ask for your height. This allows our local partners to select the correct frame size and prepare the bike in advance so it’s close to your ideal fit when you arrive. **At the Start of the Tour** You’ll receive a full in-person bike fitting with your guide or local representative. This typically includes: - Adjusting saddle height - Moving the saddle fore–aft (small adjustments to move the saddle forward or back for better balance and comfort) - Fine-tuning handlebar height and reach (where adjustable) - Confirming pedal preference — flat pedals are provided by default. If you bring your own clip-in pedals, our guide will help install and adjust them - A short test ride to check comfort Your guide will ensure everything feels right before the tour begins. **During the Tour** Throughout the trip, your guide will make additional adjustments whenever needed. This is especially helpful if you discover new comfort preferences after a few hours of riding. **What to Expect** Our guided tour bike fitting is hands-on, comfort-focused, and practical, ensuring you ride safely and enjoyably each day. It’s not a detailed workshop-level fit, but it covers all essential adjustments for multi-day touring.

Our support vehicle is always close by to make your ride worry-free. It carries your luggage, water, snacks, and spare parts, and is there if you need a quick lift or just want to rest for a while. You’ll see it at regular intervals along the route and during meal or refreshment stops. The vehicle is also used for scheduled transfers and to ensure safety and comfort along the route.

For guided tours, we do not provide GPX files separately, as navigation is handled by your guide. On certain occasions, if you prefer more independence, we may offer app-based navigation access with the daily routes loaded. However, please understand that this may not always be possible and depends on the specific tour setup.

Airport transfers are not included unless specifically mentioned in your trip inclusions. For airport pickup, we recommend booking directly from the airport upon arrival — most airports have reliable taxi, shuttle, or app-based options. For airport drop, please book a transfer through your last hotel — they can easily arrange it for you.

We focus on delivering exceptional experiences during your tour. For logistical simplicity and flexibility, we do not handle pre- or post-tour hotel bookings. However, we’re happy to share a list of recommended hotels near the starting and ending points of your trip so you can plan your stay independently.

The fitness level required for each trip is indicated by the "level" of the tour, which in turn is mentioned on each tour page right next to the price and the trip duration. **Easy**: The terrain is mostly flat with a few gentle climbs. **Moderate**: The terrain is either mostly flat or consists of rolling hills with a few challenging climbs. There could also be a few days with longer riding distances of up to 75 kms (45 miles) **Difficult**: The terrain is mostly hilly with strong elevation gains and/or has long days on the bike. Such trips are recommended for intermediate to advanced cyclists. Please note that we usually bike around 4-5 hours per day irrespective of the level of the trip.

Yes, your trip leader will carry bottled water or RO water in a camper in the support van for guests' use.

Yes, please communicate your dietary preferences to your trip leader, and we will try to accommodate your request.

The road surface on this tour mostly consists of loose gravel.

Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world. Don't expect much traffic while cycling in Mongolia.

We are not medical advisors, and as such are not qualified to dispense medical advice. However, we recommend consulting the resources below for advice on vaccines and medications: 1. [CDC portal](https://www.cdc.gov/) for travelers from the US 2. [NHS' Fit For Travel portal](https://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/home) for travelers from the UK 3. [Smart Traveller](https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/) portal or travelers from Australia. In addition to the above, you may also refer to the travel advice issued from time to time by your government. 1. US residents may refer to the State Department's travel and vaccination advice for Mongolia [here](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/International-Travel-Country-Information-Pages/Mongolia.html). 2. UK residents may refer to the FCDO's travel advice for Mongolia [here](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/mongolia). 3. Residents of Australia may refer to Australian government's travel advice including medical advice for Mongolia [here](https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/asia/mongolia).

As a general guideline, you can budget approximately US $100–200 per person for additional expenditures over the course of the trip.

Tips are not included in your tour price. As a general rule, you may tip US$ 15-25 per person per day. This figure is for the entire crew including the trip leader, the driver, and other support staff. However, you are not obligated to tip, and you can always tip less or more than the above amount depending on the level of service you received on tour. It is usually the norm to tip the tour guide, who then distributes the amount among the entire crew. However, you can also tip each individual member of the crew if you so desire. In case you want to tip the staff at a hotel such as porters, you may pay them US $2-3 per day.

Yes, you may wear riding shorts while riding your bike. When not cycling, it would be advisable to wear comfortable full-length pants. We recommend keeping a pair of comfortable pants handy in you support van.

When visiting temples and monuments, visitors should wear full-length, loose-fitting pants. Holy places of certain religions may also require covering your head. Your guide will inform of the dress etiquette required for visiting specific religious places.

You can exchange currency at the airport or withdraw cash from ATMs in Ulaanbaatar. Since this trip takes you through remote areas, we recommend keeping some local currency with you at all times.

We sleep in sleeping bags in the tent. However, sleeping bag and mat are not inclusive in the price as they are personal items. If you're not bringing your own, you may rent both sleeping bag and mat for an additional $45.

A sleeping bag with a temperature rating for -5 to -10°C ( 23 to )14°Fis recommended for your Mongolia bike tour.

Our Gers can accommodate a family of 4 as well. Kindly let us know if you wish to stay together in a single Ger.

We have a dedicated tourist camp chef to prepare nutritionally balanced meals for you.

While we cannot share the exact menu for each day, our chef will prepare nutritionally balanced local dishes for you. If you are a vegetarian, we inform the tourist camp of your dietary information and they prepare vegetarian meals for you. We request all our clients fill in personal information form when trips are confirmed to meet our, including dietary preferences and personal medical information.

Yes — we do our best to accommodate all dietary requirements. However, please note that Mongolia is traditionally a meat-heavy cuisine culture, and vegetarian options can be limited, especially in rural areas and ger camps. Vegan and gluten-free diets are even less widely understood, and suitable choices may be scarce outside major towns like Ulaanbaatar. If you follow a strict vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free diet, we strongly recommend carrying essential staples or snacks to supplement your meals during remote sections of the trip. Please inform your tour guide at the start of the tour, and we will make every effort to arrange appropriate meals and help source suitable items from grocery stores in urban areas whenever possible.

Yes. However, these are optional activities, which require additional payment in cash as these are not included in the original itinerary. Kindly inform us beforehand if you wish to enjoy horse back riding on your tour and we'll make the required arrangements.

You can charge your mobile phones in the support van. Gers will also have generators for power backup. However, carrying your own power bank is a must.

Yes, there will be network connectivity for most of the trip, bar a few remote areas.

Our tour guides are trained in first aid and can administer basic first aid. If the injury is serious, we then arrange for a vehicle to transport the injured person to the nearest hospital.

Ulaanbaatar does suffer from air pollution during the winter months due to coal burning for heating. However, the cycling season falls in the spring-summer, during which there isn't much coal burning, and hence air is clean. In the Mongolian countryside, which is where we will be cycling, the air is clean and free from pollution even in the winter.

The meeting time on Day 1 is mentioned in your travel planner shared with you. You can arrive either on the morning of Day 1 depending on the meeting time, or book a pre-tour night to arrive a day earlier.

On the final day, we arrange a group transfer to the airport. Your guide will inform you of the timings.