Baotou City Xihe Reservoir Tourist Resort Travel Guide

travelling guideline:

Festivals:

1: Mare's Milk Festival → It is a traditional Mongolian festival held in late August of the lunar calendar every year. The main content is drinking mare's milk wine, hence the name. It is usually held on the second tenth day of the eighth lunar month

. The date is not fixed and it lasts for one day. In order to celebrate the harvest and bless each other, in addition to preparing enough mare's milk wine, they also entertained guests with "hand-pickled meat", held horse racing activities, invited folk singers to sing congratulations, and presented gifts to the old Mongolian doctor.

2: Lantern Festival → Every year on October 25th of the lunar calendar, when night falls, every family lights butter lamps to celebrate. The entertainment activities of the day included

horse racing, camel racing, wrestling, archery shooting, tug of war, folk singers and folk dances.

Best time to visit:

Summer and autumn seasons.