We prefer to work with our families to accompany our treks, or with trustworthy, competent people whom we have got to know. Participants stay with family members, friends and/or trustworthy people who are used to receiving guests, often under the Shepherd's Life label, a participatory tourism concept that has been very well developed in Kyrgyzstan with the help of the Swiss Development Cooperation. 

 

Our cook knows how to adapt her menus to Western taste buds and juggle with everyone's tastes,... 

 

We spend around six hours a day on horseback, often with a steep gradient as we cross several passes. The landscapes - which are very varied - are sometimes reminiscent of the Alps, sometimes of the Pyrenees, the Pampas or Arizona, and sometimes look like nothing we are used to...