Photo: Tyiyn Enmey: Pick up the coin

Place: Sarala-Saz Jailoo, Kochkorka, Narynskaya Oblast', Kyrgyzstan

Jane Keeler

By Jane Keeler
Uploaded on 27 July 2008
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Tyiyn Enmey: Pick up the coin

Tyiyn Enmey - which means "pick up the coin" in Kyrgyz - is a traditional Kyrgyz horse game in which riders pick up a coin from the ground while at a full gallop. At the Horse Games Festival in Sarala-Saz, they substituted paper for the coin, but the concept remained the same.

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