We travel to the north region of Mongolia to see and photograph the Ice Festival with our adventurer and photographer clients each year. For helping the fellow travelers and photographers, we are sharing our travel experience for the winter trip planning of Mongolia and photo shoots for the imagination of the festival through this article.

When is Mongolian Ice Festival?

The festival is typically held in the first weekend of March each year. The Ice Festival of Mongolia, “The Blue Pearl- 2018”, was opened on 3-4th of March, under the theme of ‘Let’s Love and Preserve Khuvsgul Lake”, organized by local community and government.

What to see at the Ice Festival of Mongolia?

At this exciting winter event, you can enjoy and explore Mongolian nomadic culture, traditions, customs, uncommon performance of shaman rituals, folk music and dance show, lifestyle exploration of reindeer herders, the Tsaatan people along with artistic ice sculptures and natural beauty. Also there are some winter and traditional sporting competitions organized such as ice skating, ice sumo, horse sleigh racing, and ice uncle bone shooting/national game/. The people who gathered at the festival are well dressed in national costumes, which are so colorful, comfy and well suited the winter temperature and looks so photogenic.