It’s late summer and 10 members of the Arsanaliev family are packing up their yurts, preparing to herd their sheep and goats back down to the valley for winter. The annual roundtrip begins each June, ...

The Kyrgyz Nomad Trail (KNT) is a 1,243-mile (2,000-kilometer) long-distance hiking trail in northern and eastern Kyrgyzstan, which make it the longest trail network in Central Asia.

A sporting event like no other is taking place in Kyrgyzstan this week. The second World Nomad Games has attracted competitors from more than 40 countries, for six days of events in 23 ancient ...

The jagged mountains of Kyrgyzstan play host to perhaps the most unique sporting event on the planet: the World Nomad Games. From horseback archery to falconry to kok boru (goat carcass polo), the ...

The fifth World Nomad Games is currently being held in Kazakhstan's Astana. But the celebration of nomadic culture showcasing competitors nearly 90 different countries originated in Kyrgyzstan ...

In this photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, a women releases an arrow during an archery competition during the Third Nomad Games, in Cholpon-Ata, 250 kilometers (156 miles) of Bishkek ...

Kyrgyzstan’s president, Almazbek Atambayev, had used the opening ceremony of the second Nomad Games to deride what he called the “ideological contradictions and conflicts” of other ...

World Nomad Games are an international sport competition dedicated to ethnic sports practiced in Central Asia. The first two World Nomad Games were held in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. This years the ...

Imagine if the Olympic Games were held in Genghis Khan’s day – with fields full of galloping archers, competitive birds of prey, horse races and wrestling, and of course, horsemen clashing over a goat ...

Teams from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan participated in the World Nomad Games held in Kyrgyzstan.

On the shores of one of the world's deepest lakes, high up in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains, models strut and sashay in outfits mixing the ancient and modern at the World Nomads Fashion Festival.