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At last, I was back in Turkmenistan after a gap of three years... |
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After two trips to Turkmenistan in 2001, the artist Bridget Tempest and myself found ourselves in Ashgabat for a third time in mid May 2002... |
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Turkmenistan is a country
virtually unknown in the west but it is one of the fragments resulting
from the breakup of the old USSR and it borders on Iran. To Akhal-Teke
horseowners, however, the country is known as the cradle of the early
horse breeds, possibly dating as far back as at least 6000BC or even
longer. Turkmenistan is a mainly desert country... |
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I had decided to go to the
4th Annual Akhal Teke Conference in Ashgabat, and with a
month left to go I thought I had plenty of time to get things organized...the
short version of the story is that I got my passport back 3 days before
I left, I now have some gray hair, but everything worked out.... |
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We had hints when we rode
there in April of what was to come: the most exciting prospect for
us was that of a parade of a thousand horses! |
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