Mongolia Photo Tour & Golden Eagle Festival with Julian Elliott

Name: Mongolia Photo Tour & Golden Eagle Festival with Julian Elliott
Start: 2026-09-29T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-08T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Mongolia

September 29 - October 8

A Kazak Mongolian eagle hunter and his eagle in the Altai near to Bayan Olgii, Mongolia.

A ten-day Mongolia photo tour, including the Golden Eagle Festival
Join me in October 2026 for a breathtaking photography tour of Mongolia’s Altai landscapes including the Golden Eagle Festival. We will also have the opportunity to stay with various eagle hunters.

This Mongolia photo tour is the perfect opportunity for those happy to compromise on some luxuries to immerse themselves in the culture. We take you away from the ‘highlights’ which means you’ll be photographing in more personal situations and have the time and space to create your own unique imagery – not with a crowd of other photographers getting the same image.

We let you decide how little or how much instruction you require throughout the photography trip. But we provide the opportunity to have 1:1 interaction whether that be with portraiture, landscape photography, lighting, composition or post-production.

The itinerary of our Mongolia photo tour through the westernmost province of Bayan Ulgii has been planned to provide you with an array of photographic opportunities. The Kazakhs are Mongolia’s largest ethnic group with over 100,000 residing in western Mongolia. A small percentage of Kazakhs are eagle hunters – typically hunting with female golden eagles (known as berkuts) as they are stronger and more aggressive.

This Mongolia photography tour adventure provides a great opportunity to photograph and document first-hand the daily life of Kazakh eagle hunters. We will spend time living alongside the hunters and their families. On this itinerary, you will be hosted by some of the region’s most experienced and respected hunters and learn skills and history from them as well as explore and photograph the stark yet beautiful landscapes of Mongolia’s Altai. All of your hosts are Kazakh families that the Mongolian tour operator has personally built up relationships with over the past 13 years. No agents or tour operators are used – we work directly with all the families as this leads to a more personal insight for you as our guest.