Is it fun in Damu? Travel notes of Nadam

Nadam is a place unknown to many people, but many friends who like to travel will still go. This small series will tell you what's interesting here. Come and have a look.

As early as teaching, the school janitor told us that there would be a Nadam convention in August 10. In Horqin Prairie, it was held in the city in previous years. In the first year of this year, it was organized by the alliance. Don't miss it.

Horqin! Grassland! Genghis Khan! Da yuer! As a child, the beauty depicted in TV programs and Chinese textbooks has opened up territory in each of our minds. Since we have caught up, let's go! So I changed my visa and contacted a chartered car, which took only two or three days to complete.

10 in the morning, everyone packed up and set off around 8 o'clock. It takes about three hours by car. Because there were many chartered cars along the way, it was very lively. Looking at the vast mountains and flocks of sheep, singing wild ktv, they soon arrived at the meeting site. The tension and fatigue of teaching for many days have been completely released at this time.

Only after the salute of the opening ceremony did we know that Nadam Convention was actually a local national sports meeting. In addition to the podium, there are two seats in the audience, one for the staff and the other for the social audience. Obviously, we didn't have seats when we arrived at this time, but this didn't hinder our mood.

Overlooking the main venue, the conference will officially start at 2: 30 pm. Before that, we can go to the food festival around the sports ground, with a string of mutton kebabs for two yuan, a bowl of cold noodles for ten yuan, a roast cold noodles for five yuan, and free litchi-flavored soda. Many delicious foods swept away our collapse under the scorching sun and began the pace of shopping.

Mutton kebabs can be seen everywhere. The stadium is so big, you can't see the performance clearly unless you are in the audience, so the goal is to watch the horse race directly, so everyone started the free activity mode and waited until 2: 30 to get together to watch the opening ceremony. Someone strolled to the rest area to take a photo with the horse racing, and rode 500 thousand horses by the way. Some people stare at all kinds of horses in the waiting area, and some people sit under the arbor and eat mutton kebabs all the time. We came to the waiting area ahead of time, and soon an actor came in. They wear their own national costumes. Men are rough and mighty, while women are gorgeous with a touch of handsome. Children of ethnic minorities are really cool. In the waiting area, we saw a three-year-old pony.

There are two kinds of horse racing for girls: horse racing and horse riding. Horse racing is generally 25~30 kilometers, and the competition is the endurance and speed of the horse. Riding a horse is generally 10 km, which is faster, more stable and more beautiful than a horse. My favorite thing to watch is horse racing. After the instruction of the race was given, all the riders tried their best to drive Ma Xiangqian away, and the sound of hooves was everywhere. The soft sand made excellent curtains behind them. If several horses travel together, it looks a bit like galloping from a distance. The riders leaned over the horse and stuck to each other for a while, as if they were chords played by one person and one horse. Just watching such professional horse racing skills has opened my eyes. The local people nearby say that this horse is very clever. When you get on the horse, the horse will know if you can ride a horse. I think these riders and horses should still be soul mates.

There is a circle of yurts outside the racecourse, which is used to rest the athletes, but after the game, the athletes have basically left, so the yurts are for us tourists to rest. During the intermission, there are always people burning grass and lighting cigarettes to set off the atmosphere. Inner Mongolia people who came by car set up a stove rack and watched the game while barbecuing, which was very comfortable. We bought watermelons to rest in the yurt, and then went to the big tent on the side to take pictures. We saw the competition area built for the next day's dairy competition and manual competition. It was huge and expected to be very lively, but because of the time, we could only leave one regret and make it up next time.

After dinner, we ushered in the most anticipated bonfire party. A group of Shandong college students occupied the rhythm of two bonfire sites, from running and singing to gradually besieging the city, twice! The fast and slow rhythm makes people nervous all the time, but the unrestrained singing and laughing infected everyone present. Burning and twinkling Mars and Kongming lanterns rising in Ran Ran fly to the depths of the night sky with hopes and wishes. I think I may never forget this deep and shallow pursuit and every young smiling face under the camera.

When we went to eat supper, fireworks suddenly lit up in the sky, one, two, three, countless. Without any warning, we excitedly rushed to the empty parking lot to take pictures and videos. This is a surprise after I haven't seen the fireworks show for many years, and it is the best egg given by God! The rising fireworks bloom in front of our eyes, smoothing our excited hearts after strenuous activities and beating closely, as if guarding the beautiful dream on this grassland in Inner Mongolia.

Fireworks Xixi said: don't disturb, don't wake up, whatever you want. Yes, thanks to the wonderful opportunity of more than half a month, and also thanks to the unexpected fireworks, which drew such a beautiful ending for this summer.

We will come back tomorrow, so let's make an appointment in ten years.