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 rules of the Polo. Each Polo match is played by two teams, each made up of four riders, who must score goals in the opponent’s goal, usually on grass pitches as large as 4 football fields. These are the rules of the Polo . The four players are also called knights or amazons. It […]
Originally from the Dutch province of Friesland (from which it takes its name), the Friesian horse belongs to one of the oldest breeds in Europe, so old that it’s said to have existed for over 3000 years. The Friesian horse was already known to the ancient Romans and, during the Middle Ages, it was used […]