10 Kyrgyz archer Aida Akhmatova flashes a smile as she speaks with a referee during an event. 11 Ban Batar, of Mongolia, awaits her turn in the mounted archery. 12 Old friends amble toward their ...

"At Chabysh" is a popular festival that celebrates Kyrgyz culture. Still a means of transportation in remote mountain areas, the horse symbolizes Kyrgyz nomadic lifestyle.

MANAS, Kyrgyzstan— The horses gather into a kind of tornado of hooves, mud, whips, and men. I cling to the rider in front of me as he skillfully guides his horse toward the chaotic center while ...

Kok-boru is the iconic Central Asian horse game, but there are other popular horse-related activities. At the festival in Jolkolot village, I watched demonstrations of the games oodarysh and kyz ...

But for Ripart, the motivation to save the horse is more complex. "We have to fight to keep diversity and the richness of the world," she argued. "Kyrgyzstan is an ancestral horse culture. This is a ...

The small village of Korgundu Bulak high in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan Mountains featured the special Kyrgyz horse in a festival designed to demonstrate the abilities of the breed in its native conditions ...