With a site dedicated to featuring ‘Once in a life time’ experiences you can be sure to find that phrase over represented on our pages. Saying too many experiences are OIALT defeats the ‘once’ bit so I have tried to use the phrase sparingly. That said there are some experiences which definitely qualify for that title. The first recommendation from Linda Svendsen, who led some of the very first riding trips into Mongolia in 1994, is something I have never heard of before but I am very grateful to her for telling me about it.
Her recount of travelling alongside a Mongolian Nomad Migration, as thousands of animals are herded from the grazing valleys on one side of a mountain range to the rested pastures on the other is like nothing I have heard before. Several hundred people pack up and reset their entire community on a daily basis during the week long crossing, having to rebuild their gers (yurts is the Russian word) daily to ward off the cold.
If you only read one of the links I post here this week this should be the one. It’s incredible the different lives people still lead on this planet.