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The Wrestlers of Mongolia-Colourful Naadam Festival Tour - 4 Days
Dates are fixed annually : July 11, 12
4 days: Ulaanbaatar – Naadam Festival
Highlight : Almost everyday of our offer you will have unique free opportunity to visit authentic nomad families and experience their legendary and unbounded hospitality and incredible nomadic culture.
The Naadam Festival is the biggest event of the Mongolian year! Naadam, which means "games", is celebrated in every town and village across the country. It features the three manly sports: wrestling, archery and horse racing. The strongest wrestlers, fastest horses and expert marksmen come together to compete for the National title.
Imagine the magnificent spectacle of 500 stallions and their brightly dressed jockeys thundering bareback over the steppe at the end of a thirty-kilometre race. Imagine the haunting sound of the jockeys, who are boys and girls as young as six years old, singing to encourage their horses past the crowd to the finishing post.
This ancient festival dates back many centuries and was originally created as a celebration during weddings or spiritual gatherings. It later served as a way to train soldiers for battle. Chinggis Khan's nine yak tails, representing the nine tribes of the Mongols, are still ceremonially transported from Sukhbaatar Square to the Stadium to open the festivities. At these opening and closing ceremonies there are impressive parades of mounted cavalry, athletes and monks.
The wrestlers display their strong physique in a warm up "Eagle Dance" whilst their coaches announce their heroic deeds. Then over a dozen pairs will fight simultaneously in front of an excited audience. The round ends when one of the contestants touches the ground with their knee or elbow. Meanwhile, men, women and children compete, shooting arrows at a target sixty meters away. Since ancient times, this has been accompanied by singing of folk songs to cheer the competitors on.
Visitors can enjoy annual celebrations, customs such as making felt cover for ghers, sling wool, sacred ceremony to praise flag, heaven by sacrificing, wedding, weeping camel, mare milking, sealing folks and organizing three games of men. Here the guests can dine with Khans and Queens visit the residents of lords and learn to write in Mongolian scripts and play in horse-headed fiddle /Morin khuur/.
"13th Century National Park" consisted with six camps and tribes provide the service to the tourists.
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