The travel adventurer

in the Sary-Chelek Nature Reserve in western Kyrgyzstan, where I lead riding expeditions; there are seven lakes, no cars and it’s bursting with flowers. Some days you’re riding through the biggest walnut forest in the world, on others you’re coming down into a huge open valley where you can really canter, and then you might find yourself on a big, wild plateau where locals are playing a game of goat polo – which involves a dead goat being passed