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Cemeteries

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Cemeteries

  • fluppe from Roeselare
  • March 17, 2002
Visit one of the many cemeteries along the road. As the Kyrgyz people are nomads, they never have a fixed place to stay.

Only once they are dead, the relatives build a grave in a form of a house; these graves are always near a road, so the deceased can watch the other nomads travel on.

The richer the family, the bigger and more beautiful the graves become. In front you see a typical Kyrgyz grave in the form of a Yurt made of iron work, the Yurt is the typical tent used by the nomads.


From journal Kyrgystan