If I Disappeared Into Mongolia, Here’s How It Would Go Down🐎✨

Written By Ines Faria

💭 Why Mongolia?

Okay, let’s start with the obvious: why Mongolia?!

Don’t get me wrong — Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia… absolute faves (forever in my heart 🫶). But lately? I’m honestly kind of bored of seeing the same backpacker loops plastered everywhere. My soul is craving something raw, cultural, and different. Something untouched before it gets TikTok-saturated and loses its magic.

And Mongolia? She’s been living rent-free in my brain for YEARS 🧠💭.

The yurts, the nomads, the endless plains with wild horses 🐎… it gives me Mulan vibes (yes, I know, wrong country 😅) and even Spirit energy ✨. It feels like one of the last places where you can still truly disconnect, slow down, and live like time doesn’t exist.

That’s why Mongolia is officially on my 2026 delulu plan. I want to see the real Mongolian side — the people, the culture, the bucket list chaos you can’t find anywhere else. And honestly? I’m not going alone 👀.

🚂 Getting There (aka no planes pls)

  • ✈️ Nope. My butt is scared of flying.

  • Instead: I’d hop on the Trans-Mongolian train from China 🚆 → 30+ hours of landscapes 🌄, mystery snacks 🍪, and me spiraling about my life choices 💀. Romantic? Yes. Chaotic? Also yes.

  • Visa: Around €50–70. Less than my monthly oat milk addiction ☕.

🗺️ My Chaotic Mongolia Route

  • Kick off in the capital. I’d go straight to a throat-singing concert 🎶, wander monasteries 🛕, and eat 49 momos in one sitting 🥟.

  • Temples, turtle-shaped boulders 🐢, hiking 🥾, and me trying to look like a horse girl (spoiler: I am not).

  • Ancient capital vibes, chanting monks, and me buying souvenirs I regret carrying for 3 weeks 🎁.

  • Living with a real family. Goat-milking at 6 AM 🐐, salty milk tea 🫖, bonfires under the stars 🌌. Chaos, but make it cultural.

    • 🦅 Golden Eagle Hunters → Kazakh-style falconry that looks straight out of a movie.

    • 🎪 Naadam Festival → Mongolia’s “Olympics”: wrestling, archery, horse racing, fermented horse milk 🤢.

    • 🔮 Ovoo Rituals → circle sacred cairns 3x, offer vodka 🥃, and manifest delulu dreams.

    • 💃 Biyelgee Dance → squat dancing while balancing mugs of milk. Main character energy.

  • Flaming Cliffs 🦖 (hello fossils), massive dunes 🌊, camels 🐫 (smelly but iconic), and stargazing that makes you cry.

  • Because yes — there’s ice in the desert. Mongolia doesn’t follow logic.

✅ Bucket List Moments You Only Get in Mongolia

  • 🐎 Ride horses with nomads across endless plains.

  • 🛖 Sleep in a yurt under the Milky Way ✨.

  • 🎪 Experience Naadam Festival (July = chaos + culture).

  • 🦅 See eagle hunters in action.

  • 🔮 Take part in Ovoo rituals (and casually offer vodka to the spirits).

  • 🎶 Hear throat singing echo across the steppe

💭 Final Delulu Thoughts

f I disappear into Mongolia → check the yurts first 🛖.
I’ll either be 🐫 living my desert-queen fantasy OR 😭 crying because sand got in my toothpaste.

And maybe… just maybe… this chaotic plan might actually turn into a real group trip in 2026 👀. Because honestly? Who wants to milk goats or scream into dunes alone when we could do it together 🫂✨.

👉 Comment below which team are you?

  • 🦅 Team Eagles

  • 🏜️ Team Desert Screaming

  • 🐐 Team Goat-Milking

Ines Faria