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Retreat was certainly not the most favorite word of Genghis Khan the Conqueror [1162-1227]. But around 1220, he had to retreat from one of his expansionist campaigns. To create a new administration center for his new vast empire, he founded the city of Karakorum on the edge of a huge plateau in the center of Mongolia, where the Orkhon River exits the Khangai Mountains.
He preferred the wilderness and often left the city riding west into the Orkhon Valley. Nature is splendid here, the Orkhon River crystal clear and the mountains covered with high altitude forests. Twenty-five kilometers up river, there is a little hill with a remarkable history: ancient tombs dating back to the Neolithic period [3000-2000 BC] and a Menhir placed at a cosmic spot by an ancient culture long gone.
It is on this hill where we have now the Genghis Khan Retreat and we continue paying homage to the past. The landscape, stretched some 100 km East-West along the river is regarded as the gateway to heaven and is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Guests stay in spacious gers with specially crafted beds and furniture. The gers are cosy and snug covered with high-quality cashmere blankets, hot-water bottles and wood-burning stoves.
All gers are equipped with private lavatories. There are several bathing gers with traditional Japanese wooden bathtubs – probably one of the few places in the wilderness of High Asia where you can have a hot bubble bath.
Our kitchen is presided over by Mingma Sherpa, an extraordinary Nepali chef, as artful at making fresh Mongolian dumplings, or Italian pasta dishes. In the evenings, dinners are candlelit, accompanied by good house wines. Prior to dinner there is often a piano concert. Sometimes travelling artists in the region are invited to be part of the camp’s evening parties.
We have a staff of 35 people taking care of guest accommodation, food and sports activities. We keep our guests numbers limited to 20 to 25 at a time. This ratio gives us the best possible balance to deliver our services.
It is suggested that guests stay a week or more at the camp. A personalised itinerary and proposal for activities and places to visit can be worked out together once we know preferences and abilities.
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