Over the top - the Pamir Highway: Photos 21 to 31

As I wrote last time, we arrived safely in Alichur and checked in to the home stay of the local English teacher, a 50 year old woman.
She was living with her husband, two of her children and a nephew who was on visit from Khorog.
We explored the "huge" village and found out that it is half Tajik and half Kyrgyz, with the city hall in the middle.
The Tajiks live in the Western part, where you find a Tajik shop and houses, whereas the Eastern part of the village is home of a Kyrgyz mosque, a Kyrgyz shop and many gers.
The first thing I noticed was the quite high number of men strolling around as if they were searching something..which led to an interesting discussion with the English teacher as I mentioned it.
I found out that all that men do is getting fire"wood" (which consists of small roots of even smaller bushes that grow an hour's walk away in the mountains) for the day and that's it. No work available, nothing to do, but a culture that is extremely patriarchal. All the housekeeping as well as taking care of the children, cooking, milking the animals, making butter

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i am so jealous dude ! u got so many great photos ! :)

Little brother: Having such a wonderful journey with you. Thank you for letting us vicariously travel and feel this journey with you. Keep us in the journey...maggie

i am so jealous dude ! u got so many great photos ! :)

Little brother: Having such a wonderful journey with you. Thank you for letting us vicariously travel and feel this journey with you. Keep us in the journey...maggie