The third of the Three Manly Games of a Naadam festival is archery and firstly this chap showed his prowess shooting on horseback and he was pretty accurate too.
I persuaded him to pose for me when he'd finished.
More archers only these ones were firmly on the ground.
I love that his bow is practically as tall as he is!
After the games had finished, our little group had a private archery lesson. Before attempting it ourselves we watched this 14 yo and she was very impressive - a future Olympian I could imagine.
Her trainer then gave our group a lesson.
Pudu was the first of our lot to have a go. I think he must have led a very sheltered life and suddenly he was seeing and experiencing many new things; although he said this wasn't his first tour, he clearly hadn't done many. Once he started shooting we couldn't get the bow off him!
Eventually he did pass it over to Ian who had a quick go, just to show willing.
