Events
The main festival is world-famous Naadam, which has been organised for centuries and is held on July 11 to July 13 in honor of the Democratic Revolution. Naadam consists of three Mongolian traditional sports: archery, long-distance horse-racing, and Mongolian wrestling.
Other events include:
- Miss Mongolia - beauty pageant to select the country's Miss World candidate
- Eagle festival - in Bayan-Ölgii, hunters use trained eagles to catch small prey, plus Kazakh horse games
- Nowruz - in Ölgii, Kazakh New Years parade, concert, and feast
- Tsagaan Sar - Lunar New Year festival held throughout Mongolia
- Camel Festival - Mongolian winter tourism festival held in Umnugobi province
- Ice festival - Winter tourism event held at scenic Khuvsgul lake
- Goyol Fashion Festival
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