A LONG TREKKING … 500 DAYS ON THE SILK ROAD, FROM MONGOLIA TO THE HEART OF EUROPE
The protagonists of this story are a woman and her two Mongolian horses (Custode and Чигээрээ ). Paola Giacomini, recently returned to Trento after a long horse trekking which took her from the Mongolian steppes to Poland. Check out now all our trekking, trips, holidays, horseriding tours in Mongolia. Five hundred days on the saddle, about 800 km traveled visiting towns and districts and with the idea of bringing a message of peace between peoples. Why those places? to retrace the story of the Tatar invasion in Poland, in which it is said that an arrow shot by a Mongolian knight pierced the man who was on guard at the top of the Krakow bell tower, thus delaying the reaction of the soldiers to the invasion. And she had a Mongolian arrow delivered by the Mayor of Kharakhorin and she took it symbolically with her on this endless journey on horseback “peacemaker” to symbolically deliver it to the Cathedral of St. Mary in Krakow.
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