A Summer Invitation from Inner Mongolia: Watch the Xilingol Equestrian Archery Competition during the Dragon Boat Festival

🐉The Dragon Boat Festival holiday is approaching! Let’s head to the vast grasslands to enjoy horseback riding, archery, camping, savor grassland delicacies, appreciate folk culture, and watch the International Equestrian Archery Masters Competition‼️ Xilinhot, the capital of Xilingol League, is waiting for you to gallop freely and enjoy a passionate holiday! 🏇【Dragon Boat Festival Tour and Competition Guide】 🚩2024 Mongolian Horse League International Equestrian Archery Masters Competition ⏰ Date: June 9-12 Location: Bayin Xile Ranch 🏹 Four competition formats: ① Chinese Hou Target (Asian Target); ② Hungarian Three-Sided Target; ③ Chinese Martial Champion Sun and Moon Target; ④ Mongolian Sarin Target. 🏆 The event will feature 60 international equestrian archery experts from 12 Asia-Pacific countries and regions. Visitors can enjoy a highly skilled equestrian archery competition, and photography enthusiasts can capture exciting moments. Competitors will wear knight costumes, traditional ancient-style clothing, and ethnic costumes, galloping and shooting with bows—highly entertaining to watch! - 📷【Leisure Activities While Watching the Competition】Guide ✅ Bayin Xile Horse Club 🎈Highlights: ✔ Visitor Service Center: Experience simulated horseback riding machines and admire horse-themed paintings. ✔ New Year Flavor Experience Hall: Try on ethnic costumes and taste Xilingol cheese, fragrant rice tea, dairy snacks, handmade milk candy, mare’s milk wine, beef jerky, hand-held meat, and other grassland specialties. ✔ Sports Horse Skill Training Ground: Experience horseback riding under professional guidance. ✔ Camp Tents: Gather around the fire to brew tea, roast potatoes, dried beef, glutinous corn, sweet potatoes, and milk-flavored flatbread. ✔ Ovoo: Ride horses to visit the ovoo (sacred stone mound) and experience Inner Mongolia’s ovoo worship folk culture. ✔ Nomads’ Home: Watch the process of making mare’s milk, taste fresh mare’s milk, and learn about grassland nomads’ cultural customs. · ✅ Zagesitai Naoer ✔ Cycling: Ride bicycles or horses around the lake, enjoy the grassland lake scenery, climb the small hill by the lake, and overlook the grassland views. ✔ Camping: Set up tents by the lake, barbecue, brew coffee, escape the city noise, and enjoy peaceful travel time. · ✅ Grassland Delicacies ✔ Xilingol Lamb: A nationally recognized geographical indication product, premium lamb with good texture, no gamey taste, rich nutrition, and diverse cooking methods such as grilled lamb skewers, stir-fried lamb, hot pot lamb, whole roasted lamb, grilled lamb chops, hand-held meat, dried meat, and dried lamb sausage. 🥢 Recommended restaurants: Qimuyang Hot Pot, Saiyidemon Restaurant, Lvda Lou Hotel, Erdun Traditional Hot Pot in Xilinhot City. ✔ Xilingol Cheese: A national agricultural product geographical indication, sourced from the world’s golden dairy source area of the Xilingol grassland. The dairy products have a rich milky aroma, excellent quality, and unique flavor. Besides cheese, there are extended dairy products like Tude, Haorude, Bixilage, Chula, etc. 🥢 Recommended tasting spots: Shoufang Food Processing Park, Xilingol Cheese Flagship Store in Xilinhot City. Dairy products are available in major restaurants throughout Xilinhot! - 📌Tips: 【Transportation】 🛫 By plane: Fast and convenient, saving time. Currently, Xilinhot Airport connects to 19 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Tianjin, Dalian, Harbin, Zhengzhou, and other key cities. 🚘 Self-driving: Flexible itinerary and high freedom. Visitors with ample time are recommended to start from Beijing, take the Jingzang Expressway, Haizhang Expressway, and Xihai Line to reach Xilinhot City. 【Accommodation】 🛏️ Near Victoria Square: Xilingol Yuanhe Jianguo Hotel / Xilinhot Yunmu Hotel / Xilinhot Jingfu Smart Hotel, etc. 🏨 Near Beizi Temple: Inner Mongolia Jiuyuan International Hotel / Hanting Hotel; Near Xilinhot Railway Station: Xilinhot Huashun Grand Hotel. 【Other Recommended Attractions】 Beizi Temple (century-old temple), Xilinhot Pingdingshan (grassland volcano sunset), Xilin Jiuchu (grassland river scenery), Phoenix Horse Ranch (horse riding, travel photography), etc. - A 3-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, come have a date with the Xilingol grassland! Head to Xilinhot City’s “Golden Grassland” Bayin Xile, watch the Equestrian Archery Masters Competition, and feast on grassland beef, lamb, and dairy delicacies! 🏇 Leisure riding, camping, barbecue—make the most of your holiday time! - Pic from China Ethnic Minority Sports Association Equestrian Archery Sports Center, Xilingol League Bayin Xile Ranch