Nadam Games, Mongolia

The Mongolian town of Bayan-Agt in Bulgan province, celebrates the 90th anniversary as a Soum (community district). They celebrate the weekend with the traditional Nadam Games. Three key events, wrestling & archery both appear to fill the time while spectators wait for the main event, the horse race. Boys between the ages of 7 & 15 race 20 kilometres across the pastures & the rolling hills of Bulgan province, many riding bare back with no helmets and no shoes.
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As we landed, I felt a welcoming like never before, a sense of space and purpose. An awareness that my soul had returned. Never before had I felt this way about a journey, travelling is more about the people than the destination.

But this felt different…

I see now, it was me - time for myself, cut off from the outside world, with no wifi, no phone reception and no electricity I was able just to be. My mind didn’t wander, didn’t falter - I was present.

My soul was home, but not in the way I first thought, I’d been longing for this journey for so many years, but I see now it was a longing for my soul to be reconnected, to be free from the Vritti’s, the constance mental chatter, the prying eyes - it was to be free...

I was free…