Mongolian Nomad

9.00: You will be picked up from your hotel and taken to the performance venue. 10.00: You can experience Mongolian nomadic culture, lifestyle, five types of livestock, which form the basis of Mongolian traditional nomadic pastoral husbandry, national costumes, traditional dairy products and delicacies – all at once, by participating in the "Mongolian Nomad" program.  The show will include: - Traditional welcoming of the guests - Visiting a Mongolian nomadic family - Introducing nomadic culture and household style - Treating guests with traditional food (tea, dairy products, fermented milk, distilled milk vodka, etc.) - Performance of horse-headed fiddle and Mongolian folk songs. - Introduce the five types of animals that the Mongolian have been herding for centuries - Guests trying their skills in the archery field - Playing traditional games of “shagai” (sheep anklebone game) - Making traditional dairy products, including the fermented milk vodka - Watching traditional methods of felt making and leather processing - Watching the moving of the nomads, when they pack the gher and their belongings on camels and horse-carts. 12.30: Lunch. After participating in these interesting activities, we will have lunch and move on to our next entertainment. 14.00: The large tents and gazebos, many festival goers wearing colorful traditional costumes, powerful wrestlers, fast horses that can barely stand on their harnesses, children riding and loudly urging the horses, skillful archers, the wonderful sound of long songs, the mind-blowing Mongolian dances, and the aroma of traditional drink made of fermented horse-milk “airag” – these are the scenes of the Mongolian traditional festival Naadam. The program of the Naadam Festival: - Open the Naadam with the long song and the traditional musical instrument “Morin Khuur” – horse-headed fiddle - The First round of the 16 mighty wrestlers - Mongolian national dance - Children riding on horseback and singing a giingoo-song around the Naadam area and moving to the start of the race - The Second round of wrestling - Archery in the archery field - The participants of Naadam will test their skills in archery - The third round of wrestling - The guests go to the horse-race field - Contest of the couples riding the most beautiful horses of same breed - Award ceremony of the fastest five horses and riders - The award-winning horses will go around the Naadam area 3 times - The final wrestling - Prizes will be awarded to the mightiest wrestlers. 16.30: Go to Ulaanbaatar city. We will take you to your hotel and we will end our one-day trip where you learned about the lifestyle and traditions of the nomadic Mongolian people.