Naadam Festival – Mongolia

Naadam is a traditional type of festival held in mid-July in Mongolia.

The festival is also locally termed “the three games of men". The games are Mongolian wrestling, horse racing and archery and are held throughout the country during the midsummer

holidays. Women have started participating in the archery and girls in the horse-racing games, but not in

Mongolian wrestling. In 2010, Naadam was inscribed on the

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of

UNESCO.