A LONG TREKKING … 500 DAYS ON THE SILK ROUTE, FROM MONGOLIA TO THE HEART OF EUROPE
The protagonists of this story are a woman and her two Mongolian horses (Keeper and Чигээрээ ). Paola Giacomini, recently returned to Trento after a long horse trekking that took her from the Mongolian steppes to Poland. Check out all our trekking, travel, vacation, horseback riding tours in Mongolia now. Five hundred days in the saddle, about 800 km traveled visiting cities and districts and with the basic idea of bringing a message of peace among 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 he had a Mongolian arrow delivered by the mayor of Kharakhorin and he took it with him symbolically on this never-ending journey on a “peacemaker” horse to symbolically deliver it to St. Mary’s Cathedral in Krakow.
HORSES GROW FOND OF A FRIEND Each horse chooses a close friend from his herd. The horse has a real need for social contact. For this reason, the horses who live in stables are able to develop a very special relationship with their owner. AN ELEPHANT’S MEMORY Horses have a very active memory. They remember […]
It sounds incredible, but in Spain, and more precisely in the province of Huelva, in Andalusia there is a living film set with a western theme. If you’ve always believed that westerns were shot in Arizona, you’ve always been wrong: the sets were located in Spain. The town of El Rocio , created to shoot […]