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Events

Mongolian Horses Festival
June 4 and August 4, 2007,
Tuv province, 114km from Ulaanbaatar

The event will provide you a chance to meet with the methods and technology how to prepare airag (fermented mare's milk) traditional dairy product and to show the proud which expresses the power and strength of a horseman how to break in a untamed horse for riding, to catch horses with a lasso-pole and snatch a lasso-pole laying on the ground.

Tsaatan Festival
June 29-30, 2007,
Huvsgul province

Tsaatan festival provides great opportunity to see Tsaatan (reindeer herder) people's ancestral culture and to play reindeer polo. During the festival you can join yak caravan, ride a reindeer and a horse, and enjoy to go on a boat or a canoe.

Beautiful Mongolia Gala Concert
July 8 and 11, 2007,
Ulaanbaatar and Gachuurt

We proudly present to you the climax of this year's Naadam festival. Come and join us on this special evening to enjoy and admire the captivating music skillfully performed by our traditional instrumental orchestra for your heart's delight and delectation. Not only will you be immersed in traditional music, featuring the nomadic way of life and its unique culture but also your ears will be enchanted with world's best of classical at this annual performance.

Mongolian National Costumes Festival
July 9-10, 2007,
Tuv province, 65km from Ulaanbaatar

Mongolian National Costumes Festival is a bright example of culture that introduces foreign guests and tourists to the marvels of national costumes and folk art of the country. The festival will take place at the relaxing Guru tourist camp in the beautiful Gorhi-Terelj National Park. During the festival you will experience customs of various Mongolian minorities as well as watching dances including tsam and hear national music plus khoomei (throat singing).

Best Fashion Collection
June 14, July 8, August 2 and 16, September 8, 2007,
Ulaanbaatar

The fashion show shall demonstrate and show tourists the history and development of Mongolian Traditional Costumes.

Sandbaggers Gobi Challenge
June 29 and June 8, 2007,
Umnugobi

Since the inaugural Gobi Challenge in August 2003 the event has grown steadily, gaining a truly international feel. In 2007, there will feature participants and teams from as far reaching as Australia, Wales, Mongolia, England, Ireland and Scotland. Participants will cross mountains, desert plains and massive sand dunes, sleeping each night under the stars and getting totally absorbed into the true wilderness of the Gobi. It's a tough race but a truly spectacular one which can easily claim to be among the most adventurous events on earth.

Golden Gobi Fashion Show
July 19, 2007,
Ulaanbaatar

To demonstrate performances, especially Mongolian national costumes which successfully passed historical severe wind and related style of living culture and tradition. You will see incredible clothing combination of Mongolian kings and queens' costumes.

Mongolian Horse Festival
July 21-22, 2007,
Uvurhangai province, 290km from Ulaanbaatar

Bayangobi Juulchin will organize the Mongolian horse festival jointly with the Mongol horse association in Bayangobi tourist camp, located in Elsen Tasarkhai (Sand Stretch), where natural beautiful places combining Khangai and Gobi exist, in the slope of Ikh Mongol mountain, central point of Mongolia. During the festival, race of 5-year old horses will be held besides some shows such as catching horses with lasso-pole, lassoing, taming horses, and other sport shows. Also may artistic performances related to horse, the three manly games and tack exhibition will be held.

Ceremony of Summoning Spirits of the Great Chinggis Khaan's Imperial Guards
August 12, 2007
Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, 70km from Ulaanbaatar

This festival is specially organized to introduce foreign guests to the life, culture and history of Mongolians including the Great Chinggis Khaan, other kings and queens, nobles, warriors and nomadic people that lived in the 13th century. This festival includes events such as sporting games, cultural performances, introduction to nomadic traditions, an offering ceremony to ovoo (pile of stones worshipped) and an "Open Fire Fest". As one of the specific features of the festival, nearly 100 warriors on horseback along with around 200 additional specialists will participate. Various expert, scientists, seamstresses and blacksmiths will take part in organizing these events and contribute to the making of costumes and other wares that will be used throughout the festival.

The Grand Orchestra of the Mongolian National Song and Dance
August 15, 2007,
Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, 70km from Ulaanbaatar

The Grand Orchestra of the Mongolian National Song and Dance consists of musical instruments including stringed instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments and will perform outdoors amongst the green landscape of beautiful Gorkhi-Terelj National Park. You will hear great masterpieces of classical music and the best of Mongolian melodies at the same time. The Grand Orchestra is composed of nearly 80 musicians performing on traditional Mongolian musical instruments including morin khuur (horse-head fiddle), ikh huur (grand fiddle), huuchir (two-stringed instrument), shudarga (three-stringed lute), yatga (zither or harp), flute, bishguur (woodwind instrument), trumpet horn, drums, cymbals and jolts.

Golden Naadam Festival
August 21, 2007,
Terelj National Park, 70km from Ulaanbaatar

The Naadam festival, a traditional celebration inherited from olden days, is the biggest national event for the Mongolians. The word Naadam means 'game'. The festival's full title is Eriin Gurvan Naadam, which can be translated as "The Three Manly Games". It consists of wrestling, horseracing and archery. It is a tradition for the strongest wrestlers, for the fastest horses and expert marksmen from all over the Mongolian countryside to gather to test their courage, strength and coolness.

Felt Festival
August 25-26, 2007
Uvurhangai province, 290km from Ulaanbaatar

Mongolian felt festival shall present one of the wonders of nomadic traditional technology of Mongols. You will be introduced with the techniques of making felt such as combining, laying out and dragging with horse. Some handicraft felt items shall be available for sale.

The Pride of Mongolia Festival
August 3, 2007
Tuv Province, 56km from Ulaanbaatar

The event consists of 4 main parts:
• Horse festival
• Tsam - historical and religious mask dance
• Unique - antique exhibition in an ancient monk's ger museum
• Firework and Shaman performance at night

Follow the Footsteps of Genghis Khaan
August 12-21 and September 2-11, 2007,

There is no better way to explore Mongolia than on horseback. The event will provide to all participants a chance to wear a traditional costume and equipment of the ancient, while eroding through landscapes greatly unchanged since the founding of the Mongolian Empire.

World Melody International Folk Art Festival
September 2-7, 2007
Ulaanbaatar

Since 2004, 'World-Melody' international folk art festival successfully organized in Mongolia by Mongolian Association of IOV. The main purpose of this festival leads to advertise national art throughout the world with its specific nature and tradition. Besides we strive to introduce world culture and its specific to our people and youngsters. Moreover, this will contribute to develop tourism in this country. The folk art groups and artists from the different countries will alternately participated in the festival. In this year artists will come from Scotland, Belgium, Russia, Japan, Turkey and Iran.

Hunting With Eagles Festival
October 6-7, 2007,
Bayan-Ulgii Province

Riding out to the peak of the mountains each day, you will be introduced firsthand to the ancient custom of hunting with golden eagles. Specially, timed during the winter months, Kazakhs, in their ancestral tradition, track small rabbits and foxes in the snow. Kazakhs release the eagles into the wild at the age of seven, while they still have half their lifespan remaining, in order to ensure preservation of the species.

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