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Bayan-Olgii Province, Mongolia 2014 Without horses like these, the Mongols wouldn’t have conquered the largest land empire in history. When I saw these horses, all tacked up, I thought about asking if I could ride one. A gallop across the … Continue reading
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Western Mongolia 2014 We stayed here with a Mongolian family for two and a half days. We women bunked in the nearest ger and the men on our tour slept in the farthest ger. The family, who were our hosts, … Continue reading
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Western Mongolia 2014 You have to look closely to see that the horse is in a gallop. His near hind and off fore hooves are leaving the ground. He leans away from the eagle, but he doesn’t shy. The Kazakhs … Continue reading
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Western Mongolia 2014 The daughter of the Kazakh family that we stayed with sits at the table where her mother butchers mutton and stares dreamily.
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Western Mongolia 2014 The eagle hunter rode into the arena at a brisk canter, shrieking a high-pitched cry that sounded to me like the cry of an eagle. He extended his “eagle arm”, the one his eagle normally perches on … Continue reading
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Mongolia 2014 Herds of animals are a common sight in Mongolia. This scene was only an hour from the capital of the country, Ulanbaatar. The land is open grassland, but I read that there are forests north of Ulanbaatar. When … Continue reading
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Marrakesh, Morocco: Late 1990’s No words are needed today. Just FYI, though. The word for fish in Moroccan Arabic sounds like ‘hoot’. If you stay in a riad (an old house converted into a bed and breakfast) in the medina, … Continue reading
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Mongolia 2014…Hustai National Park The last of the wild horses roam free in a preserve on the grasslands of Mongolia. Called Przewalski horses after the Russian explorer who first described them, they are a stocky, dun colored breed with upright manes. Their eyes seem … Continue reading
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Rissani, Morocco late 1990’s Children run from my camera in one of Rissani’s kasbahs. Kasbahs are a kind of apartment house where a certain tribe lives…sometimes Berbers, sometimes Arabized Berbers. Life is primitive. There is no electricity except a rare … Continue reading
