| HORSE
PARTY (1 DAY)
Place of the event:
Sergelen soum of Tov province, 70km away from UB.
Date of the event:
9.30
a.m. Leave the hotel for the horse party.
10.30 a.m Arrive
at the Dorjnyambuu’s family summer camp. Dorjnyambuu is
the winner of the horse taming and horse grazing competition.
Lecture on horses in Mongolia. Witness the owner of the herd drive
100 horses about 10 kms.
11.00 Watch
the Mongolian skillful cowboys catch horses with the uurga - a
long stick with a rope noose.
12.00 Braking of
a horse that has never been ridden before. Watch Mongolian cowboys
take turns taming them.
13.00 Picnic lunch
– BBQ. At lunch taste the favourite drink of Mongolians
- airag, fermented mare’s milk.
14.30 Afternoon
milking of the mares. Volunteers may participate by holding
the foals next to their mothers.
16.00 Foal race.
There is a tradition of Mongolians to race foals at big events,
favorable year celebration, marking of the horses. Opportunity
for some to gamble.
17.30 Free time.
Horse – riding. Hiking. Talking with horse breeders and
their family. Light dinner.
19.00 Leave for
Ulaanbaatar.
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