Same location as N.8261.
Same angle (360°) and number of shots (21) as there.
On the other hand, same quotation as in N.8227 - I mean, drawn from the same book. This is because eight km away from the lake, on the road to the Bairam Davaa (=pass), there is a rich site of "kurgany" - the typical Central Asian tumuli marking important burial places.
"Two and a half millennia ago Herodotus described the Scythian royal burials in intimate detail, from the forty-day funerary journey around the dead king's dominion to the narcotic vapour-tents where the mourners howled with joy. [...] Beside the king lay strangled members of his household, with a dead concubine and many horses. Around his kurgan rode an eerie cavalry, fifty strong: its horses and men had been disembowelled and impaled on stakes and wheels, their feet and hooves never touching the ground.
[...] The rain which seeped down into the crypts, or coursed along the passage left by contemporary robbers (who took only gold), froze in the cold rooms, and sealed them under a lens of ice. [...] Experts could tell the season of burial by the contents of the horses' intestines [...] they could diagnose osteoporosis and toothache in the humans, and count their battle-wounds."
Today, luckily, nothing in this peaceful place leads to imagine stories like these...
Larger version: www.panoramio.com/photo/72127200
Hans-Jürgen Bayer, Sebastian Becher, Peter Brandt, Felix Gadomski, Thomas Hansen, Martin Kraus, Wilfried Malz, Giuseppe Marzulli, Jan Lindgaard Rasmussen, Danko Rihter, Markus Schwendimann, Christoph Seger, Robert Viehl, Jens Vischer, Beatrice Zanon
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P.S.: io intanto compiango la scomparsa del tuo Pollino che mi volevo studiare attentamente perché 1) è dirimpettaio di un mio panorama; 2) anche tu sarai arrivato lí da Colle dell'Impiso come il sottoscritto e come questi signori a Capodanno: www.thetop.it/index.php?page=view_abs&n_abs=15521
Incidentally: it seems that the Mongolian ger is becoming fashionable also in Europe, especially in the Alps... http://www.montagna.tv/cms/?p=37482
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