26 November 2009

Where and how families live?

As the country of the thousands hills, people live in the hills, obvious right! Most of the time it is impossible to reach the houses by car and even motorbikes. When you look at the landscape you see little houses made of mud (?) bricks, that fade in the landscape. Usually families have around 6 children if not more, there is no age to stop having children. They work the land and have animals which most of the time sleep in the house so they don't get stolen during the night.

I've fallen in love with the traditional houses (one day I will have a garden big enough to put a ger and a mug house!) They usually have 4 rooms, 1 for the children, 1 for the parents, one as the living space, where the kitchen is - 3 rocks and a fire and 1 for the animals.
There is a lot of walking involved. To fetch water it can sometimes take 1 hour, hence you can see loads of people on the road (tracks) and most of them are carrying something. The strength of the neck is quite impressive, from very young age children learn to carry things on top of their head. I have started a series of bicycles, people carry incredible amounts of weight on them, not easy when you think of the thousands hills!



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