{"id":4150,"date":"2015-05-01T14:32:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T09:02:53","slug":"the-mongolian-naadam-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/2015\/05\/the-mongolian-naadam-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mongolian Naadam Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"  <div id=\"page-header-1411660246\" class=\"page-header-wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"page-title dark featured-title\">\n\n        <div class=\"page-title-bg\">\n      <div class=\"title-bg fill bg-fill\"\n        data-parallax-container=\".page-title\"\n        data-parallax-background\n        data-parallax=\"-\">\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"title-overlay fill\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"page-title-inner container align-center flex-row medium-flex-wrap\" >\n              <div class=\"title-wrapper flex-col text-left medium-text-center\">\n          <h1 class=\"entry-title mb-0\">\n            The Mongolian Naadam Festival          <\/h1>\n        <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"title-content flex-col flex-right text-right medium-text-center\">\n        <div class=\"title-breadcrumbs pb-half pt-half\"><nav class=\"woocommerce-breadcrumb breadcrumbs uppercase\">Home<\/nav><\/div>      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n     \n<style>\n#page-header-1411660246 .title-bg {\n  background-image: url(https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC_8202-e1430490256113.jpg);\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Mongolian Naadam Festival &#8211; Experience the Celebration<\/h2>\n<p>The Mongolian Naadam Festival is a colorful cultural celebration, with fantastic displays of traditional sports. Marking Mongolia\u2019s Independence, it is one of the most important holidays of the country from July 11- 13.<\/p>\n<h3>Ride with <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Home\" href=\"\/\">Stone Horse <\/a><\/span>and include the Mongolian Naadam Festival in Your Travel Experience<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/dsc06829\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7507 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06829-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The Mongolian Naadam Festival, Archery Competition, Three Many Sports\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06829-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06829-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06829-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06829-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a>Plan your<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Gorkhi Terelj National Park Tour 2015\" href=\"\/expeditions\/gorkhi\/\"> riding holiday with Stone Horse Expeditions<\/a><\/span> to take in the Naadam celebrations. For guests taking part in our horseback expedition July 1 \u2013 10 we offer a guide and vehicle, city tour on July 10, and visit to Naadam festival events for a fee of $ 200.00. The same goes for the horsetrek tour July 16 &#8211; 25, for riding guests wanting to attend the Naadam Festival before their ride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The city tour includes visit to museums, the Gandan Monastery (Gandantegchinleng Khiid), lunch, and evening concert of the renowned Tumen Ekh Ensemble. For July 11, the package includes guide and vehicle to see the Opening Ceremony of Naadam, a visit to the horse races and fair outside Ulaanbaatar, or to the fairgrounds at the Naadam stadium in the city. The $ 200 does<strong> not<\/strong> cover the extra night in the hotel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make your reservations for your riding holiday with the Naadam package EARLY!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Opening Ceremony of the Traditional Mongolian Naadam Festival &#8211; Nine White Banners<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/dsc06696\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7503 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06696-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The Mongolian Naadam Festival, Nine Banners\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06696-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06696-510x383.jpg 510w, https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06696-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06696-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a>The opening of Naadam is an impressive ceremony to watch in the morning of the first day of the festival on Chinggis Khaan Square in the city center. A parade of riders on light colored horses carry nine white banners (Tsaagan Tug) of horse hair from the Government House to the Naadam stadium. Made of horse hair to symbolize the central role of the horse in Mongolian life, the banners were an emblem of peacetime since the Khans and have been adopted again after the end of socialism.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>The Three Manly Games &#8211; Eriyn Gurvan Nadaam<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Naadam-022_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4152 alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Naadam-022_1.jpg\" alt=\"Mongolian Naadam Festival, Wrestling, Three Manly Games, Horse Riding Mongolia\" width=\"438\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a>The National Naadam Festival takes places in and near Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. The three days of Naadam are marked by competitions in horse racing, wrestling and archery, celebrations and fairs. The celebrations are also named \u201ceriyn gurvan nadaam\u201d in Mongolian language, or the \u201cthree manly games\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Horse Racing at the Traditional Mongolian Naadam Festival<\/h3>\n<p>The horse races are a sequence of races of horses of different ages. The jockeys are young children, wearing colorful outfits. Today, they are outfitted with protective gear for these races across the steppes West of Ulaanbaatar. Wrestling and archery competitions take place in the stadium.<br \/>\nOnce situated in the outskirts of the city, after years of urban growth the stadium now lies just at the southern margin of downtown Ulaanbaatar. Archery is practiced by men and women, in separate competitions. Wrestling is by men only. The competitors wear colorful top and bottom costumes and traditional Mongolian boots during the matches that are without time limit. The winning wrestler performs steps resembling the movements of an eagle with wings spread.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>History of the Traditional Mongolian Naadam Festival<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0446_1-e1430489867208.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4155 alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0446_1-e1430489867208.jpg\" alt=\"Mongolia, Naadam celebrations, horse racing, Horse riding vacation, horse trekking\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0446_1-e1430489867208.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0446_1-e1430489867208-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>Competitions in wrestling, horse racing and archery are traced back to about 2000 years when tribal peoples celebrated the skills of war and survival in the steppes. Marco Polo, traveling to the Mongolian Empire in the 13th century, described the traditional festival held upon the behest of Chinggis Khaan to have featured no less than 10 000 white horses. In later centuries, the Naadam celebrations were held in autumn in conjunction with worship of local spirits and later yet in relation to Buddhist religious holidays.<br \/>\nNaadam is a colorful festival filled with sports and cultural events and ending in great celebrations. It is an important state holiday, commemorating the 1921 struggle for and declaration of Mongolian independence. In 2010, Naadam was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO.<\/p>\n<h3>Visitors to Ulaanbaatar City during the Traditional Mongolian Naadam Festival<\/h3>\n<p>The Naadam festival attracts many visitors to Mongolia&#8217;s capital city, domestic and international. Many shops close, but for hotels in Ulaanbaatar it\u2019s the height of season. It is therefore important to book early if you want to travel to Mongolia to include the Naadam Festival in your Mongolia experience.<\/p>\n<h3>Chose your riding vacation with Stone Horse Expeditions &amp; Travel in Mongolia:<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" title=\"Gorkhi Terelj National Park Tour 2015\" href=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/product\/gorkhi-terelj-national-park-horse-riding-2017\/\"><strong>10 Day Gorkhi Terelj National Park Ride <\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">You can experience the Naadam Festival after the July 1 &#8211; 10 expedition, or before the July 16 &#8211; 25 tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" title=\"Gorkhi-Terelj National Park Expedition \u2013 8 day 2015\" href=\"\/gorkhi-terelj-national-park-expedition-8-day\/\"><strong>8 Da<\/strong><strong>y Gorkhi Terelj National Park Autumn Trek, October<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" title=\"Khan Khentii Mountains Horse Riding Tours 2015\" href=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/product\/khan-khentii-mountains-horse-riding-expedition\/\"><strong>14 Day Khentii Mountains Expeditions,\u00a0 September<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" title=\"Mongolia Wilderness Conservation Holiday Adventure\" href=\"\/mongolia-wilderness-conservation-holiday-adventure\/\"><strong>14 Day Wilderness Conservation Holiday Adventure<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>August<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>Make the best of your time in Mongolia, and visit the Gobi Desert too!<\/h3>\n<p>Consider combining a horseback expedition with a Gobi desert tour. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/product\/gobi-desert-tour\/\"><strong>6 Day Gobi Desert Tours<\/strong><\/a> are scheduled to fit in between horseback rides. <a href=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/product\/gobi-desert-tour\/\"><strong>Learn more..<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div class=\"slideshow_container slideshow_container_style-light\" style=\"height: 400px; \" data-slideshow-id=\"7499\" data-style-name=\"style-light\" data-style-version=\"2.3.1\" >\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_loading_icon\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_content\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_view\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_slide slideshow_slide_image\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/stonehorsemongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC06819.jpg\" alt=\"The Mongolian Naadam Festival\" width=\"4864\" height=\"3648\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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