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.
The English Thoroughbred, an equine breed originating in Great Britain , the “Thoroughbred”, selected for gallop races in racecourses. Officially, the modern origins of the English Thoroughbred date back to 1793 with the publication of the Stud Book (Book of the origins or herd book of racehorses) concerning the famous 50 indigenous mares, the Royal […]
Sanucar de barrameda Who among you has never dreamed of taking a gallop on a very long beach? …. well think that in Spain it was right here that horse racing began in the mid-nineteenth century. Initially they were goliardic occasions to challenge each other between horse owners, but today, in Spain, it is a […]