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!
Here...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!
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