The Mongolian Naadam Festival starts this week. Naadam is an annual festival celebrated in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and the Tuva Republic that showcases traditional games of horse racing, wrestling, ...

The Mongolian Naadam Festival starts this week. Naadam is an annual festival celebrated in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and the Tuva Republic. Naadam showcases traditional games of horse racing, ...

It wasn’t until 1921 that Naadam was officially declared an annual national holiday in Mongolia. For hundreds of years though, this trio of events – archery, horse riding and wrestling – was ...

Mongolian native Buyandelger Ganbaatar, country director of tour company Nomadic Expeditions, tells CNN that Naadam actually has over 2,000 years of history and it was originally a means of preparing ...