Place to see: Sarala-Saz Jailoo, Kochkorka, Kyrgyzstan
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.
About this place:
Located about an hour and a half to the north of the small Kyrgyz village of Kochkor, the Sarala-Saz jailoo (a jailoo is a high mountain pasture, and it's pronounced jai-low) is gorgeous. It's also home to the yearly exhibition of traditional Kyrgyz horse games, put on by Community Based Tourism every July.
Kochkorka, Narynskaya Oblast', KG
Discovered by Jane Keeler
on 27 July 2008.
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