Kyrgyzstan: bride stealing, eagle hunters and yurt life

Traditional Kyrgyz dress, but I feel more like Neville Longbottoms's grandmother with an owl on her head

I didn’t know much about Kyrgyzstan before my trip, but even so I wasn’t expecting to learn that, until 2016, it was perfectly legal to steal a woman off the streets and force her to marry you. And even after it was made illegal, the practice still continued for several years. It wasn’t until the… Continue reading Kyrgyzstan: bride stealing, eagle hunters and yurt life