When a horse festival in the Tibetan village of Litang devolves into a showdown with the Chinese police, tempers flare and bullets fly!
Hotel Explora has a full stable and offers riding for beginners and experts. While we were there, one lady did nothing but gallop across the hills the entire time.
Explora Hotel Salto Chico sits on the wind whipped shores of Lake Pehoé in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. It is surrounded by the stunning granite peaks of the Paine mountain range and serves as a luxury base camp to explore Patagonia, one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة), which means "The Vanquisher" or "The Triumphant", is the capital city of Egypt. Cairo was founded in AD 969 and is the sixteenth most populous metropolitan area in the world, as well as the most populous metropolitan area in Africa .
Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River in the north of Egypt.
Must-Sees in Cairo!:
- The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, is home to the most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world.
Two thousand temples by horse drawn cart.
Feel electricity in the air. Witness spectacular races in a historical setting.
One weekend my boss took my and my coworkers to the jailoo (pronounced jai-low), the high mountain pastures where Kyrgyz traditionally spend their summers. From there, we rode horses up to Sunken Pass, the gateway to the next valley.
Sunken Pass is the pass through the mountains which separate the small village of Kul-Tur with the valley on the other side of the mountains to its south. It can be entered through the Kul-Tur Jailoo, and can be trekked on foot or by horse.
a farm in rural Alabama - a beautiful way to wake up each morning
There is no better way to traverse the Bagan plain than by horse cart. It allows you to hop between temples without the constant turn of the ignition and in the heat of a Burman dry season, you can be happy that the only thing you are contributing to is the local economy and not global warming.