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Mongolia - Open Horizon

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  • A horse man crosses the Arkhangai river close to Tsetserleg, in Central Mongolia. Mongolians learn to horse ride before they can even walk, they are expert hose riders...
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  • Beside a desert, a Mongolian tnomads hrows a line for fishing in Khovd Aimag Province, in Western Mongolis. Mongolians buddhist usually don't eat fish as water is holy to them.
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  • Launching the eagle for demonstration of catching rabbits..At the festival..Eagle Hunting festival in Western Mongolia, in the province of Bayan Olgii. Mongolian and Kazak eagle hunters come to compete for 2 days at this yearly gathering. Mongolia, October 2006
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  • Launching the eagle. A horseman below catches the eagle from his horse..At the festival..Eagle Hunting festival in Western Mongolia, in the province of Bayan Olgii. Mongolian and Kazak eagle hunters come to compete for 2 days at this yearly gathering. Mongolia, October 2006
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  • Eagle shadows. Eagle Hunting festival in Western Mongolia, in the province of Bayan Olgii. Mongolian and Kazak eagle hunters come to compete for 2 days at this yearly gathering. Mongolia, October 2006
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  • At the festival..Eagle Hunting festival in Western Mongolia, in the province of Bayan Olgii. Mongolian and Kazak eagle hunters come to compete for 2 days at this yearly gathering. Mongolia, October 2006
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  • Rus Bosara, an old eagle hunter (his son and grand son are eagle hunters), grand father of Samarkand, in his yurt. With his wife Rus Alda. .Eagle Hunting festival in Western Mongolia, in the province of Bayan Olgii. Mongolian and Kazak eagle hunters come to compete for 2 days at this yearly gathering. Mongolia, October 2006
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  • Mongolian wrestling (Mongolian: bökh) is a traditional sport that has existed in Mongolia for centuries..Wrestling is one of Mongolia’s age-old "Three Manly Skills" (along with horsemanship and archery)..The wrestler, dressed in an open-chested wrestling shirt, called a zodog, is performing a traditional dance before a match. He keeps one hand on his trainer's shoulder and circles around him a few times, keeping his eyes closed most of the time. .Mongolian's nomadic lifestyle and traditions. 2008
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  • Amur Turchin goes looking for his yak herd..Mongolian's nomadic lifestyle and traditions. 2008
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  • Two different eyes. Eagle hunter competitor..At the festival..Eagle Hunting festival in Western Mongolia, in the province of Bayan Olgii. Mongolian and Kazak eagle hunters come to compete for 2 days at this yearly gathering. Mongolia, October 2006
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  • An Aksakal (a honorific title meaning "White Beard") hitchiking on the back of a truck, on his way to the market town of Khovd in Western Mongolia. The hat he wears identifies him as a eagle hunter, and is made of fox fur.
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  • A young Mongolian girl gazes up at the sky after milking her yaks, in Western Mongolia.
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  • Camel riding in the Gobi desert
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  • Detail of Mongolian dresses..Mongolia's culture and tradition. 2008.
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  • Details of Buryat clothes (a sub-group from Mongolia) etc on the shooting of "Serko", a film reenacting the longest horse-ride ever done in the history of man, : 9000 Km in 200 days from the Amur River to St Petersburg, by a Cossack named Dimitri Petchkov and his horse Serko in the winter of 1890. Siberia, Irkutsk District, Lake Baikal region, March 2005. Director: Joel Farges. Adaptation from the book by Jean-Louis Gouraud: Serko.
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