Ulak Tartysh is team riding horse game. It consist in a wrestle for possession of the headless carcass of a goat. The two teams of riders attempt to deliver it across the opposition s goal line, or into the opposition s goal, made with a big tub or a circle marked on the ground.
The goat is 35 kilogs, and the men on the horses carry it with 1 hand!
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Souvenir of the communist soviet times in Kochkor...
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A jailoo is a high mountain pasture. The Sarala Saz jailoo is located about an hour and a half to the north of the village of Kochkor. Besides its landscapes and view on the mountains it is also famous for being home to the yearly exhibition of traditional Kyrgyz horse games every July.
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To put up the yurta people start from installing a door casing, bosogo. Then by the circle stretches the openwork wall, kerege, which consists of a few sections, kanat. Each kanat is made of long wooden poles. Usually kerege is made of birch tree trunks and boughs. Then stretched out it form a grid with rhombic clear space-kerege koz. Then installs the supporting dome poles and tyundyuk - the top of the Yurta. The surface of the poles is trimmed and thoroughly polished by the master who renders them the required shape and thickness. The surfaces of the wooden parts of the yurta are covered with a special substance and painted so it keeps the original flexibility . From the outside, the Yuta is covered by Chiy, or mat, with a national ornament and finally, the nearly finished spherical structure is covered with a specially prepared thick felt, - kiyiz. Usually, yurta has several felt layers.
A jailoo is a high mountain pasture. The Sarala Saz jailoo is located about an hour and a half to the north of the village of Kochkor. Besides its landscapes and view on the mountains it is also famous for being home to the yearly exhibition of traditional Kyrgyz horse games every July.
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The animal market in Kochkor is an event not to miss if you visit Kyrgyzstan. Early in the morning, thousands of people come with goats, sheeps, cows, horses. the entrance is small and it soon becomes a happy traffic jam time! The contrast is funny between the sellers who come from the countryside with their old trucks and cars, and the people who come to buy, who wear their nicest clothes.
Hours after hours, more and more people come, and around 12, it is nearly impossible to move inside the market.
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