11 days including 5 days on horseback. Stocky Mongolian horses will carry you across wide open steppes, riversides and wooded mountains of the Orkhon river valley. Almost every nomadic nation dominating the Central Asia in different periods chose to build their capital here. Visit Karakorum – the capital of Genghis Khan and the first Buddhist monastery of Mongolia – the Erdene Zuu. Local herders will accompany and share with you their ways of life.