The NOMADS DAY Festival 2007

The NOMADS DAY Festival is held on 17-18 September, 2007. This amazing Festival showing heritages and custom of Mongolian nomadic lives included widely indigenous people and various kind of spectacles. For instance:

Nomads moving
The first challenge for the nomadic men was they loaded their camel carts, yak carts and camel back with their traditional dwelling ger in the shortest time and moving for 1 km /0.6 mile/.
Nomadic women meeting the nomads
Ladies had to be showed the beautiful nomadic traditions of meeting the moving nomads on the way and treating them with tea and food.
Competition of Men
A man from each team had to catch an untamed horse by horse catching poles called Uurga and tamed the horse without any bridles, saddles and whips within the shortest period of time.
Assembling a Ger
The next challenge for the nomads was "Who's the fastest to assemble a ger-Mongolian traditional dwelling?".
Children's competition
Children of each team competed with a traditional Mongolian game called "Who's the brightest?" showing their mental capacity.
Competition among the tourists
The tourists taking part in the festival competed in teams and their task is to detach the walls of Mongolian traditional dwelling Ger in the shortest period of time.
Children's concert
In the evening of Day 1, children performed an excellent concert for the visitors. The visitors were entertain thoroughly by the talented little performers traditional Mongolian dances, songs, musical compositions as well as traditional Mongolian contortionism.
Horse racing
25 beautiful adult horses of 3 provinces competed in the "Shuvuun Saaral" horse racing. The race distance was 16km /9.94 mile/ and the jockeys were aged between 5-11 years of age.
Archery
The archery competition of the mini Naadam was held in the fields of Steppe Nomads camp on the 2nd day of the festival. Total of 10 archers /female and male/ competed with their marksmanship.
Wrestling
About 16 mighty wrestlers competed in the wrestling competition of the festival on 18 Sep in the fields of Steppe Nomads camp.
Competition of Beautiful Horse Rider Couples
This interesting competition was held on the 2nd day of the festival. The competition was held among the young couples to show the Mongols' beauty, intelligence, knowledge on Mongolian history and culture, wonderful traditional Mongolian costumes and gorgeous horses. The first task was that each couple had to wear traditional clothes of the same colour, used the same beautiful silver saddles and ride horses of the same colour. The guys competed with each other by their skills to show their strength and the girls competed by their skills of embroidery making.