An
elderly Kashmiri Bakarwal woman leads a heard of horse near Peer Ki
Gali, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, May
20, 2015. Bakarwals are nomadic herders of India's Jammu-Kashmir state
who wander in search of good pastures for their cattle. Every year in
April-May more than one hundred thousand people from the nomadic
Bakarwal tribes arrive in the meadows of Kashmir and parts of Ladakh
from areas of the Jammu region with their flocks of cattle and sheep.
After crossing snowy mountains with their cattle and belongings, Kashmir
valley's lush green meadows become their home from April to September,
after which they begin their return journey. This seasonal shifting of
“homes” ensures a regular flow of income for the families. (AP Photo/Dar
Yasin) |
A part of me gets dreamy about such a lifestyle, the isolation, living with your livestock and rambling about in a landscape without the drama's induced by the human need to be nurtured. But then my body says no.
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