Living in Mongolia | Eagle Hunters, −40° Winters & Homes That Move | 4K Travel Videos

Living in Mongolia means eagle hunters, −40° winters and homes that move — a house you can pack up in an hour. In this 4K travel video we take 15 stops across a country bigger than France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom put together — where only about three and a half million people live — to see how people live in Mongolia today: from the green steppe to the Altai Mountains, from the Gobi desert of Mongolia to the coldest capital on Earth. Meet herding families who take down their Mongolian ger and carry it away on the back of a camel, Kazakh eagle hunters who still train golden eagles to hunt foxes in the snow, children racing horses for miles across open grassland at Naadam, and monks who came back to rebuild a monastery that was destroyed. And learn the one winter word every herder fears: dzud. This is Mongolia — not the empire, the life. Life in Mongolia still follows the grass, the herd and the family, and Mongolian nomads still move with the seasons. Whether you're planning Mongolia travel or simply curious about nomadic life, this is the unseen Mongolia behind the postcards: some of the most beautiful places in Asia, hidden travel destinations few visitors ever reach, and the wonders of Mongolia as the people who live there know them. Could you trade your house for a ger? Tell us in the comments — and tell us where in the world you're watching from. 🔔 Subscribe to Surreal Places for more 4K travel videos about surreal places on Earth and the people who call them home. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro — what does it take to live in a home you can pack up in an hour? 01:50 Stop 1 · Hustai National Park, Töv — the wild horse that came home 03:56 Stop 2 · The Ger, Central Mongolia — a house built in a single morning 05:56 Stop 3 · The Move, Central Mongolia — when the grass runs out, the family moves 07:57 Stop 4 · The Milk Season, Central Mongolia — airag and the "white food" of summer 10:27 Stop 5 · Orkhon Valley, Övörkhangai — herding along one river for 2,000 years 12:33 Stop 6 · Kharkhorin & Erdene Zuu — the old capital of the Mongol Empire 14:38 Stop 7 · The Eagle Hunters, Bayan-Ölgii — hunting with golden eagles 16:54 Stop 8 · Tavan Bogd & the Altai — life at Mongolia's highest peak 18:59 Stop 9 · Khongoryn Els, the Gobi — singing dunes and camel herders 21:15 Stop 10 · The Flaming Cliffs, Bayanzag — where dinosaur eggs were found 23:15 Stop 11 · Ongi Monastery, Dundgovi — the monks who came back 25:26 Stop 12 · Naadam — the Three Games of Men 27:51 Stop 13 · The Chinggis Khaan Statue — a 130-foot horseman of steel 30:07 Stop 14 · Winter, Khövsgöl — the winter called dzud 32:27 Stop 15 · The Ger Districts of Ulaanbaatar — the coldest capital on Earth 34:48 Outro — could you trade your house for a ger? ▶️ WATCH NEXT Living in Hawaii | Homes Rebuilt on Lava & the Forbidden Island of Niihau →    • Living in Hawaii | Homes Rebuilt on Lava &...   Wonders of Alaska: 15 Surreal Places at the Edge of the World →    • Wonders of Alaska: 15 Surreal Places at th...   Wonders of America: 15 Surreal Places That Look Like Another Planet →    • Wonders of America: 15 Surreal Places That...   📷 PHOTO CREDITS (Wikimedia Commons) Hustai: Josep Renalias Lohen11 (CC BY 4.0) · Brücke-Osteuropa (public domain) The Ger: Al Jazeera English (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Bouette (CC BY-SA 3.0) Erdene Zuu, Bayanzag & Ongi: Bernard Gagnon (CC0) · Torbenbrinker (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Rob Oo (CC BY 2.0) Golden Eagle Festival: Gabideen (CC BY-SA 4.0) Altai rock art: Altaihunters (CC BY-SA 3.0) Dinosaur eggs: Wellcome Collection (CC BY 4.0) · Gary Todd (CC0) Naadam: FischerFotos (CC BY-SA 4.0) Chinggis Khaan Statue: Andrijko Z. (CC BY-SA 4.0) Ulaanbaatar: Quintin Soloviev (CC BY 4.0) · Chinneeb (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Ksuryawanshi (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Laika ac (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Newspaper "Number One" (public domain) Public domain / no known restrictions: Roy Chapman Andrews, "Across Mongolian Plains" (1921) · NASA MODIS (Jeff Schmaltz, NASA GSFC). Licenses: creativecommons.org/licenses — some photos were cropped or animated (pan/zoom) for this video. 📌 DISCLAIMER All video footage is licensed stock footage from Storyblocks and Envato Elements, used under their license terms; photos are credited above. The script, research and editing are original work by Surreal Places; the narration uses an AI-generated voice. We do not claim ownership of the underlying footage, which remains the property of its creators. This video is for entertainment and general information only. Facts and figures come from publicly available sources and may change over time. If you travel in Mongolia, check official sources first: the Gobi needs more water than you think and a plan for the heat, winters can fall below −40°, fossils belong to the state and may not be taken out of the country, and monasteries and sacred sites should be visited with respect. If you believe any content in this video infringes your rights, please contact us and we will review and respond promptly. #LivingInMongolia #Mongolia #4KTravelVideos