Place to see: Sarala-Saz Jailoo, Kochkorka, Kyrgyzstan
Ulak-tartysh scrum
Ulak-tartysh is a traditional Kyrgyz game in which two teams compete to see who can get the headless carcass of a goat onto a target first. The carcass is fresh, the goat being slaughtered just prior to the game.
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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