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Another scanned photo from an old slide...

Probably not easy to understand when you open the photo : not long after sunrise, the sheeps were being milked and their long shade mixes with the black sheeps scattered around... We had spent the night with the family in the same yurt, total 7 persons in a very small space ; my friend and I did not sleep much, because of the slopy nature of the terrain, so we were constantly gliding downwards, almost out of the yurt while sleeping. I found the solution, as my feet were not far from a large countainer of water on which I could lean :))

I've added in the workshop the photo of the family, without the eldest son : you can see the mother preparing gorgeous cream from the milk of her 4 cows and her daughter walking around. Our guide did not know a word of English but the conversation at night was great fun, we could communicate with them with the little Uyghur that I had learnt in west China : all the Turkic languages from central Asia are close to each other, but some more isolated people speak a sort of dialect that is different in each area.

The day ahead was also very tiring because we spent all of it on horses and not used to it, first climbing slowly to a high altitude lake not far from glaciers, then all the way down back to Kochor.
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Le scan d'une autre vieille photo à partir d'une diapo : tôt le matin, les moutons sont traits et leur ombre se confond avec les moutons noirs... Nous avons passé une nuit dans cette yurte un peu trop pentue à notre goût, inconfortable mais très sympa, amusant et intéressant : une famille de 4 plus notre guide, donc 7 personnes dans un très petit espace. Auncun d'entre eux ne connaissait un mot d'anglais mais curieusement, la langue Kyrgyz comme toutes les autres langues "turkiques" de l'Asie centrale se ressemblent ; à ce moment là, je connaissais un peu d'Uyghur, appris en Chine de l'ouest et on se comprenait très bien - par contre, isolés dans les montagnes, les gens parlent toutes sortes de patois incompréhensibles si on ne vient pas de cet endroit.