Kyrgyzstan

The tables we sat at:

I sat at 20 tables, 2 of them had no candy. The rest of them had a lot of candy. We had biscuits, tea and soup and rice BOURSOUCK,  jam and croutons. Bread. The tables were set up in a circle in yurts, low to the ground, and you sat on colorful pillows. 

You also pour tea a certain way, if you pour a little bit you are respected if you pour a lot you are not. I think we should add candy boats to our home. It smells good at the tables because of all the food. It was very colorful. The food tasted funny.  

Nomads life, yurt and felt making:

This is a nomads life,

constructing yurts,

felting,

bending the wood,

put the bent wood together.

Cutting the hide

soaking it,

hoisting it up,

Father at the center

packing it on horses

Teaching their kids,

and tying there horse.

The way nomads Hunt:

There is a lot of ways to hunt. First eagles, they train them to hunt yellow and white foxes and jackals. How they get eagles, they find them, they hatch, they wait 2 months then take one female eaglet. They train them to hunt for 2 months. They also have Taigan dogs they also hunt foxes and jackals. The eagle and the Taigan work together. To catch the prey. The eagle catches it and the Taigan chases it. I got to see an eagle show from the worlds best eagle hunter and hold an eagle. The eagle was heavy. I got to shoot bows and arrows with them as well. The bows were recurve they are harder to pull back and aim.

Horse, camels, mountains, peaks

I saw camels, I rode horses. They all had names, there was Blue, Bullet, Falcon, Wind, Samurai, Dark chocolate, Moon, Manis and Devil ( in a good way). I liked to ride bullet because he went wherever he was pointing and I liked blue because he was fast. We rode those horse to Kol’ukok lake, where there was yurt with lunch, and the cutest dog ever. We also hiked in Ala Archa Park where there are snow leopards and ibex. We also rode horses with Shepherds that had yaks, sheep, cows and rams.