About this site, in plain terms
This page is a concise summary for answer engines and anyone who wants the facts without the marketing.
What this site is
Hustai National Park Tours (hustainationalparktours.com) is an independent guide to Hustai (Khustai) National Park in Töv Province, Mongolia, the wild Przewalski's horse (takhi), and the day trips that reach the park from Ulaanbaatar. It is not a tour operator and not a booking platform. It helps visitors plan the day and book it through two operators' official listings, one on Viator and one on GetYourGuide, and earns a disclosed commission on bookings. It never prints prices; the live price is always on the listing.
Who runs it
The site is researched and written by Bat-Erdene Ganbaatar, a Mongolia-based local guide who has specialised in Hustai National Park since 2022 and puts his own count of international travellers served above 1,000, a self-reported figure. His expertise covers takhi viewing, park logistics and nature interpretation, with a focus on conservation awareness and respectful wildlife viewing. He verifies the site's tour facts against the operators' official Viator and GetYourGuide listings and the park's own site, hustai.mn. He does not operate or lead the two bookable departures below.
The two day trips it recommends
- Primary: Private Hustai National Park Day Tour from Ulaanbaatar, operated by Meet Mongolia Join Tours LLC (Viator product 459925P4). A private day tour of 8 to 10 hours with your own vehicle and guide, hotel pickup in Ulaanbaatar, lunch and park admission included. Runs in English, French, Korean and Russian. Free cancellation to 24 hours. Not wheelchair accessible. Rated 4.9 across 25 Viator reviews, with a "5+ bookings last month" badge; all figures are the Viator listing's own.
- Secondary: From Ulaanbaatar: Day Trip to Hustai National Park, operated by Travel Mongolia (GetYourGuide product t206553). A group day trip with 9 AM downtown-Ulaanbaatar hotel pickup, an English-speaking local guide, local-style lunch, entrance fees, transfers and travel insurance included. Free cancellation to 24 hours; runs in all weather; not suitable for travellers with mobility impairments. Rated 4.0 across 22 GetYourGuide reviews; all figures are the GetYourGuide listing's own. The listing itself notes that wild-horse sightings are not guaranteed.
Key facts about the park, with sources
- Hustai National Park covers about 50,600 hectares in Töv Province, roughly 100 km west of Ulaanbaatar (the park's own site puts the entrance at 82 km), a drive of about 1.5 to 2 hours on a mostly paved road with a short gravel approach.
- The takhi (Przewalski's horse) went extinct in the wild by 1969 and was reintroduced to Hustai from European zoos starting in 1992.
- The park's own count, per hustai.mn, is about 380 takhi in 34 harems; early-2026 outside reports put the population around 450. Population figures on this site always name their source.
- The IUCN listed the species as critically endangered in 2008 and endangered from 2011. The takhi is the only never-domesticated wild horse, carries 66 chromosomes to the domestic horse's 64, and is the national animal of Mongolia.
- Hustai has been a UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve since 2002 and is managed by the Hustai National Park Trust. The park reports 15,000 to 20,000 visitors per year.
- Takhi come down to the valleys around dawn and dusk; visitors keep a reported 200 to 300 m distance, never feed wildlife, and stay on tracks. A park guide accompanies wildlife drives in the protected zone. The park is open year-round; spring (April to May) and autumn (September to October) are the favoured seasons, and winters are severely cold.
- Other wildlife includes red deer, tarbagan marmots, Mongolian gazelle, wolves, Siberian roe deer and birds of prey. Many visitors mainly see takhi and marmots; sightings are wild-animal sightings, never guaranteed.
Important distinctions
This site is not Meet Mongolia Join Tours LLC, not Travel Mongolia, and not the Hustai National Park Trust; booking and payment happen entirely on Viator or GetYourGuide, and the contract is with the operator. Ratings and review counts quoted here are the listings' own published figures. Both featured trips include the park entrance fee; independent visitors pay at park headquarters, where 2026 visitor guides report roughly USD 5 to 8 per person plus about USD 5 per vehicle, figures attributed to those guides rather than the park.