Mongolian Naadam festival tour
This tour brings out Mongolian Naadam festival and following itinerary will be included:
Overview: Experience Mongolian historical culture through this national festival holiday and explore the most beautiful places of Mongolian Naadam tour. This special tour designed to bring you into the colorful event of the year letting you discover a lifestyle, arts and music that reflects the true national identity and culture of Mongolian people. The festival underscores Mongolias three manly sports horse racing, wrestling and archery. Naadam festival brings countrys sporting men and women from the remotest regions to compete at the national level in capital city.
Length: 6 days 5 nights
Type: short join tour
Area: Around Ulaanbaatar
Potential dates and weather condition: 10-15 July 2019
Difficulties: Easy-moderate (no experience necessary). This trip suitable for most aged clients.
Distance: 304 km
Highlighting points:
▪ Learning new culture and heritage of Mongol.
▪ Opportunity to witness nomadic gaming culture.
Itinerary:
Day 1. Arrival day
Day 2. Sightseeing tour
Day 3. Naadam day
Day 4. Chingis Khan Horse statue & Gorkhi-Terelj National park
Day 5. Gorkhi-Terelj National park
Day 6. Departure day
Detailed itinerary:
Day 1. Arrival
Arrive in UB from airport or train station and will be delivered to a hotel. Rest of day will be reserved for relaxation. (Introduction and possible negative changes will be explained and will having a small warming evening in the hotel lobby.) (L, D)
Day 2. Sightseeing tour
Our driver and local tour guide will pick you up at hotel and Leave to Chinggis Square (formerly named Sukhbaatar Squire) behind to pay your respects at the statue of Chinggis khan and Sukhbaatar. Stop at the State Parliament House. Check out the Soviet styled architecture of Modern Palace of Culture, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, State Opera-ballet theatre and South of the Golomt Bank, the clay-red building (now with bright blue patches around the windows) is the Mongolian Stock Exchange, which was opened in February 1992 in the former Childrens cinema.
National museum of Mongolia: the national Museum of Mongolian History was founded in 1991. Exhibits of the museum depict the history and culture of Mongols as early as the Stone Age and up to the modern days. Among 15 thousands exhibits of the museum are carpet and silk items of the Hun period and leather boots of a Mongolian soldier of that time.
After lunch, we will drive to the next wonderful museum, it is called winter palace of Bogd Zabzandambakhutagta who was last Mongolian king and played a key role in revolution that happened in 1911. The Bogd khan palace has been under the charge of the Palace Museum, whose expensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon the imperial collection of the King VIII Bogd Zabzandamba.
Lastly of day, The Soviet War Memorial Zaisan hill is one of several war was memorials in Ulaanbaatar, erected by The Soviet Union to commemorate its war dead, particularly the 80.000 soldiers of the Soviet armed forces who dies during the battle of Khalkha Gol in 1939 and 1945. From here, its nice to observe panoramic view of capital.
Dinner, spend self-awareness time at the hotel in the evening. (B, L, D)
Day 3. NAADAM DAY
Pick our clients up in the morning and drive to the Stadium where most of games of Naadam held in. Naadam is the most spectacular and interesting festival and national holiday of Mongolia which attracts worldwide attention. Origin of the festival dates back to great the great warriorss period or great Genghis khans period in the 13th century. Naadam means Festival or Feast of sports. As well as, the Festival is logically termed Eriin gurvan naadam means Three manly sports.
The three sports are: Horse racing, wrestling and Archery
Horse race: horses competing in the races are trained for at least a month before start the festival. There are six racing categories according to the age of the horses, starting from two-years-old horses to fully-grown horses and stallions. The horse races held outside Ulaanbaatar in the open fields. The two-year-old horses race in a distance of 15 km whereas the fully-grown horses race 30 km. The races are performed by small (child) jockeys. They prefer to race without saddles to be as light and therefore as fast as possible. There is a lot to attract your attention at the horse racing field such as folk and horse shows, holiday meals, etc. except for the horse race
Wrestling: Wrestlers wear special clothes to show the beauty and strength of their bodies. There is no categorization according to weight. The basic rule of the wrestling is the number of wrestlers must be equal: 512 or as many as 1024 during special anniversaries. The higher-ranking wrestlers choose from lower ranking wrestlers as their competitors. The winners remain for the next round while the loser leaves the competition. The competition will continue in this manner until the very last round. Depending on which round the wrestlers win and also depending on their previous title, they receive a new title. The competition becomes more and more interesting round by round as the winner wrestlers win titles after the fifth round and further. The wrestlers titles named after prey of birds and strong animals; falcon, elephant, hawk, garuda, lion, and champion. The wrestlers imitations of the animals gesture are of interest as well.
Archery: Over the years, there are some changes for the Naadam festival rule. Nowadays, women can attend most competitions and games except for wrestling. This contest is open to women, who draw 20 arrows at a 60 meters target, while men shoot 40 arrows at a 75 meters target. (B, L, D)
Day 4. Chingis Khan Horse statue & Gorkhi-Terelj National park
In the morning, we will drive out to Tsonjin boldog Resort (55km) which is believed to be highest equestrian statue in the World. Theres an elevator to observation desk on top of the horse head. Then we will head to Gorkhi-terelj National park, situated 70 km northeast of Ulaanbaatar Gorkhi-terelj is famous for its unique granite rock formations and pristine alpine scenery, and is the most popular destination for tourist based in the capital and for Mongolians on the weekend trips. See the gigantic Turtle Rock.
Afternoon, hike to the turtle rock and Ariyabal temple.
Staying at Mongolian traditional yurts/ger/. (B, L, D)
Day 5. Gorkhi-Terelj National park
We will have nomad breakfast in the morning before jumping on horse trekking for 1-2 hours. (it depends on clients capable of horse riding).
Afterwards, visiting tourist will be given Archery shot for fun by archery experts at yard of resort.
Will have lunch and drive to back city. Rest at hotel. (B, L, D)
Day 6. Departure
Transfer to airport or train station. (B)
2 pax |
771$ |
4 pax |
567$ |
6 pax |
500$ |
8 pax |
465$ |
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