Tseren Tours - About Us

About Us

In 1992 Rik pedaled to Mongolia on his two year bike tour around the world. from Holland. He met his future wife Tseren and they started to explore Mongolia together.

A year later we got a request from Dutch company to organize a cycling trip in Mongolia.

Today we have priceless experience and knowledge. We are the leading company in the field of active and adventure tours in Mongolia. We are young, energetic as well as professional and responsible. We are explore all our tours ourselves and being true observers of different cultures we promise that your visit to Mongolia is more than just Mongolia sight-seeing.

Our goal is to provide the best active and adventure holidays while benefiting from our host communities responsibly. We will take you to the most fascinating and exciting places in authentic Mongolia. We have a wid choice of well crafted adventure holidays in Mongolia and we can design tours to suit the individual requests of our clients.

Who are we?

Rik TSEREN TOURS was founded and is run by Tseren Enebish with husband Rik Idema. Tseren is a Mongolian from the country side and graduated with her degree from the Mongolian Arts Academy in 1992. Her nomadic blood flows strongly and has always pushed her to see what is beyond the horizon. Rik first came to Mongolia from The Netherlands in the Spring of 1992 for his two year world cycling tour. He found it to be on of the most untouched countries he had visited. Rik The traveller fell in love with the nomadic spirit of Mongolia.

Tseren Rik and Tseren met in Ulaanbaatar where Rik awaited his visa for the next leg of his bike tour. Driven by their desire to travel, they journeyed throughout Mongolia and other Asian and European countries. They love to travel in an individual flexible way giving more attention to the local people and cultures than to the advertised tourist sites. In 1994 they started TSEREN TOURS Company and began to organize tour parties to Mongolia. Their tours are based on their own philosophy of travel not as tourists but as sensitive adventurous explorers. Their first organised tour was a bike tour. Later they organized all other kinds of tours for small groups and for individuals. Sometimes tours are arranged in cooperation with European tour operators.
Because they have lived both in Mongolia and The Netherlands Rik and Tseren are an outstanding couple promoting positive experiences for visitors and hosts where Mongolian and Western cultures meet each other. Rik and Tseren want to share their awareness and respect for Mongolia - its peoples and places - with you.