Marco di Pisa:
Miyo smiling, not knowing how much she still has to climb
Marco di Pisa:
Miyo walking around the lake to reach the Khazaks nomad camp
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lake shores
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rubber shoes from a khazak woman left drying on a stone in the sun
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lake shore
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View of the Heavenly Lake and its Glacier
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Khazak shepard on Heavenly Lake
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Map of the Area
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The Yürt up and running
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The Yürt still half built
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a Yürt (traditional Khazak Nomads portable home is here being dismantelled as they are moving up the mountains for the hotter months
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Khazak Women baking bread
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camel trophy or something?
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colourful plants
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weird sticky plants on my pants
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small calf camera shy
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sheep exhodus
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HUNDREDS of sheep going around the lake at 7pm
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view from the campsite
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Khazaks talking about the day
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Heavenly Lake. 8.30pm
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Heavenly Lake. 9pm
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Heavenly Lake. 10pm
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Heavenly Lake. 11pm...still some light in thr sky
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Miyo traversing a bridge in the dark (the light is from the camera flash) at 11.30pm
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yürt door and stove (the stove only gets used in the winter when it's -30ºc, not with +10ºc in the WARM summer nights
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miyo really unhappy sneazing and cold in the yürt at 6am
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just woke up after a chilli night in the yürt... I could hear the sound of the lake, eagles, horse, sheep and cows passing by and the cow boys whistles and shouts
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The Yürt interior is decorated with blankets and knitted patterns on them. The structure is red painted wood
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Miyo 9am ready to go on a 2 hours trip with her horse. The shepard getting Makov's horse ready (Makov is a israeli guy who was with us and the nomads