Horse games and other Kyrgyz games

Due to the fact that, horse games and other national games are popular, travellers like to travel in Kyrgyzstan and participate in them. Travelling in Kyrgyzstan will give you opportunity to get a short history about Kyrgyz national sports games. It is important to note that, nomadic games go back to the antiquity. Before, it was popular for men to show their strength, endurance and other.  In your tour in Kyrgyzstan, you will find out that, all Kyrgyz national games are closely related with horse riding.

Tours in Kyrgyzstan will give you opportunity to get acquainted with the most famous competitive team game Kok-Boru, which consist two teams of 8 people. The purpose of this game is based on throwing the dead goat into the opponent's goal. We are sure that, you will be impressed by this interesting game in your tour in Kyrgyzstan.

It is necessary to highlight that, besides men's power, horses must be strong too an� have endurance, so thus, horses in Kyrgyzstan are highly trained and respected. The next interesting game you are going to play in your tour in Kyrgyzstan is Erenish. It is almost the same as previous game, but the goal is to throw an opponent off the horse. As you can see, games in Kyrgyzstan are used to be similar to each other.

In your tour in Kyrgyzstan, you will be inspired by the next interesting game as "Kyz Kuumai", which must to be an important part of nomadic peoples. In the course of your tours in Kyrgyzstan, you will be told that, western men used to show their love by singing serenades under windows of beloved ones as well as Kyrgyz men showed their love through perfect horse riding. In general, "Kyz Kuumai" is translated "Catch up the girl". It is known that, this game is used to be a part of a wedding custom.  The game is based on bride and groom, the groom must to catch a bride and kiss her, if she does not want to get a kiss from him, she has right to hit him. It is important for girl to have a strong horse and start to move from place to 5-10 seconds before.

During your tour in Kyrgyzstan, you will have opportunity to play the wrestling-alysh, which is similar to the wide-spread Greco-Roman and free style wrestling. Besides horse riding, you will see intellectual games as toguz korgool. This game is played among warriors, which let them to improve abilities of military strategic thinking.