A horse in China
COVERED PICART - YESTERDAY, 13:02
Clara Arnaud impression of having always been fascinated by China. At 15, she began to learn Mandarin. It really was not interested in country she knew nothing, she was quite fascinated by the ideograms. And then a trip to Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, gave him the desire to discover unknown regions west of China.
Last year, the year of the Olympics, at age 21, Clara embarks on a journey through western China on foot, accompanied by two horses then. The crew he can carry his food over long distances and go in the corners it would not have dared to tackle with a backpack too heavy. Horses have also restricted by them to think first and do not dwell on these little problems with it.
And then the horse has proved an excellent passport to the meetings. Arnaud When Clara arrives in April in Tibet, for example, there is nothing. Everything is barren, frozen. To find and buy the oats, it is necessary to multiply the contacts and finally encounters begin with this trade. It is true that a Western girl who lands in a remote corner of China where there was not too used to seeing tourists, this does not leave indifferent
... "The surprise could raise my presence a girl like that, lost in the middle, for example, Tibet was an advantage, yes, to make me welcome in families with women, mothers who were concerned about my fate, children ... It was also a disadvantage sometimes because I saw people who were bewildered by my presence they were almost afraid. Especially in nomadic areas, nomads Goloks I visited Tibet and who are people who have little contact with tourists in the northern regions of Tibet. There was very very hard. Because they looked at me with dismay and I do not even know how they interpreted my coming. It raised concerns in fact. "Arnaud
Clara is attracted by the margins, minorities like the Uighurs, Tibetans. She appreciates the spaces of deserts, plateaus and small populations served by the complexity of this country, complex geopolitical, religious, demographic.
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