Cultural and Historical Tours
Mongolia
Naadam Festival (code:22)
Naadam
is a traditional type of festival in Mongolia. The
festival is also locally termed "eriin gurvan naadam", "the
three games of men". The games are Mongolian wrestling, horse
racing and archery
and are held throughout the country during the midsummer holidays. Women have
started participating in the archery and girls in the horse-racing games, but
not in Mongolian wrestling. The biggest festival is held in the Mongolian
capital Ulaanbaatar
during the National Holiday from July 11 – 13, in the National Sports Stadium. Other
cities and towns across Mongolia and those with significant Mongolian
populations in China, have their own, smaller scale Naadam celebrations. It
begins with an elaborate introduction ceremony featuring dancers, athletes,
horse riders, and musicians. After the ceremony, the competitions begin.
Naadam is the most widely watched festival among
Mongols, and is believed to have existed for centuries in one fashion or
another. Naadam has its origin in the activities, such as military parades and
sporting competitions such as archery, horse riding and wrestling, that
followed the celebration of various occasions. Now it formally commemorates the
1921 revolution when Mongolia declared itself a free country. Another popular
Naadam activity is the playing of games using shagai, sheep
knuckles that serve as game pieces and tokens of both divination
and friendship. In the larger Nadaam festivals, tournaments may take place in a
separate venue.
Tour Overview
Tour
Length: 6 days
Group size: 3 to 24 people
Transport
type: Vehicle
Tour cost: US$ 590 - (including taxes)
Tour level: Standart
Schedule
2011: June- September (You can choose when you come and the date.)
Highlights: Ulaanbaatar city, Wrestling,
Horse racing, Archery, Terelj National Park, Horseback
riding tour, city shopping, Visit nomad families, opportunity to ride horse and
much more!
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Genghis Khaan Birthplace (code:019) Interested
in Mongolian history? Taking part in this trip you will visit the legendary
birthplace of Genghis Khan, the greatest warrior of all time. You will admire
the beauty of the Eastern Mongolia, its wilderness and many historic sites
connected to Genghis Khan, his childhood, his battles, his loves as well as his
offspring'. This trip takes you to Oglogchiin Herem, the biggest graveyard of
the 13th century Mongolian aristocrats, also Genghis Khan's Aurag city ruins,
the Great Khan's birthplace Deluun Boldog, the Rivers Herlen and Onon, from
which the Great Khaan once drank etc.,
Tour Overview
Tour
Length: 8 days
Group size: 3 to 12 people
Transport
type: Vehicle
Tour cost: US$ 1390-
(including taxes)
Tour level: Standart
Schedule
2011: June- September (You can choose when you come and the date.)
Highlights: Ulaanbaatar
city, Black Heart Blue Lake (Huh Nuur), Bereeven Monastery, Rashaan Rocks and Ancestor’s Wall,
Birthplace of Genghis Khan, Huduu Aral, Horseback
riding tour, city
shopping, Visit nomad families, opportunity
to ride horse and much more! Here...
Buddhist
Monasteries Tour (code: 021) Buddhism
was declared Mongolia’s national religion in the 13th century and has been
widespread since the 1600s. By 1900, there were 583 monasteries and temples and
a trip around some of them can be considered the perfect introduction to
Tibetan Buddhism. Among the wonderful monasteries on this tour is Erdene Zuu,
built in the 1580s on the site of the ancient imperial capital. One of the
oldest monasteries in Mongolia, in its prime there were 10,000 lamas in
residence and nearly 60 temples. By the end of the Stalinist purges in the
1930s, however, all but 4 of these temples had been destroyed. You will see the
lamas chanting and receive Buddhist empowerments as well as having the
opportunity to view the temple’s museum complex.
Tour Overview
Tour
Length: 8 days
Group size: 3 to 12 people
Transport
type: Vehicle
Tour cost: US$ 990- (including taxes)
Tour level: Standart
Schedule
2011: June- September (You can choose when you come and the date.)
Highlights: Ulaanbaatar
city, Erdene-Zuu Monastery , Shankh
monastery, Tuvkhun Monastery, Uvgun Monastery, Manzshir Monastery, city shopping, Visit nomad families, opportunity to ride horse and much
more! Here...
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