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Page, texts and photos copyright (c) Primož Jakopin - Klok 2023, except for the photo 52769, where the author is Holidin Pojonov - it is published with his permission.
52849. View of the ridge east of the torrent which flows past the eastern edge of Dehibolo after precipitation. In the upper right, there is a farm on the plateau above the wall, and below is a walnut grove. Here a narrow and shallow irrigation canal runs from tree to tree, and part of the water from the torrent flows through it during the rain to water the walnuts. They wouldn't thrive without it.
52758. View of Dehibolo from the eastern slope above the torrent. In the upper right is the Chulbair ridge, and in the background is the Hodja-Gur-Gur-Ata ridge.
52759. Farzona, Dilafruz, Holidin and Marvia on the way to the family's summer home, about three quarters of an hour's walk from Dehibolo. Farzona and Marvia saw us from afar and rushed to greet and accompany us.
52850. View to the east from the ridge above the house, with paths, carved into the slopes. The upper one leads further into the valley, the lower ones into the nearer parts.
52760. View from the ridge above the house to the west, towards Dehibolo. Everything that is green is watered. Water flows through PPE pipes from springs on the mountain slope, in some places more than a kilometer away.
52761. Farangiz, Mihrangiz and Parviz with a cat in the shade under the house
52852. Muboriz on a peach tree
52762. Parviz placed himself comfortably on the chests in the living room
52853. A cat, it is called pšak (pron. pshuck) which means cat in the Tajik dialect, in literary language the word is gurba. He is angry because the author didn't let him into the living room (Parviz would have done so).
52854. Holidin with hand-operated sewing machine
52855. Breakfast with tea, home-baked bread, honey, dates, sugar, seeds, cookies, chocolate bars, tomatoes, apples and peaches.
52764. On top of the hill, south of the house and orchard: Farzona, Dilafruz, Marvia, Parviz, Holidin, Mihrangiz, Farangiz and Muboriz.
52766. and 52767. Farzona and her slightly younger cousin and best friend Marvia
52769. Group photo from the other side, against the sun: Muboriz, Farangiz, Dilafruz, Parviz, Klok, Andreja, Farzona, Mihrangiz and Marvia.
52770. More grown-up party members of the fairer sex: Farangiz, Dilafruz, Andreja and Mihrangiz
52772. Mother and father: Dilafruz and Holidin
52858. View from the top of the hill back towards the house and orchard, to the north, with Holidin, Marvia and Dilafruz. The ridge on the horizon is Chulbair.
52859. A flower of the Malvaceae family, probably a hollyhock, Alcea rosea
52856. Dilafruz with Parviz, bottom right, making goat's cheese - from the curdled milk in the bag, the whey drains through the fabric.
52857. Floral pattern on a shelf covering cloth
52773. Marvia with a goat kid who is licking salt remnants from the empty bag of potato chips.
52774. Holidin was looking for another...
52775. ... ripe peach.
52776. Late afternoon view from the ridge above the house to the west, in the middle right is Dehibolo, and on the horizon is the ridge of Hodja-Gur-Gur-Ata.
52777. Muboriz
52778. The youngest son on a donkey, with his mother, on the trail, against the sun
52860. A man from the village on a donkey, returning with supplies to the valley in the east.
52861. Dilafruz and Holidin during a rest
52862. View from a height of the village Zervaroz, along the stream bed deep in the valley below Dehibolo. The stream flows southward to the Oltinsoj region, at medium and high water level, past the house of Hudojberdi Zokirov.
52779. Strata of volcanic rock in the vertical drop of a stream flowing from Chulbair ridge past Dehibolo.
53163. Three samples of volcanic rocks collected along the trail to Dehibolo, the middle one measures 88 mm in length. The strata in the previous photo corresponds to the right sample, the dark gray one. Click on the photo two times to get it in full resolution.
52780. The steep slope below the trail, close to the village
52864. Mother with son on the Zebra donkey (named after the striped legs), already in Dehibolo
Related pages:
Dehibolo, August 15 and 16
Back to Samarkand and home, 18 - 20 August
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