Having the opportunity to spend two days in this rural nomadic community you really see how hard life is, especially for the women. They are the first ones up to milk the cows, then they round up goats, collect dung for the stove, cook for the family, wash the clothes, and it's never ending. It was amazing to see the team work involved in the daily rounding up of goats to be milked. They're separated by the colours painted on their horns, to show that they belong to different families and they are all bound by rope hooped around their neck, as they're milked. Then the vat of boiled curd needs to be spooned into the muslin cloth and so the work continues! Then more dried dung needs to be collected, or special branches from high up the hill and the girls scramble up to get them. In the pouring rain the dung needs to be covered and the women rush out to do that.
It really makes you appreciate how easy your life is - washing, heat, cooking all at the press of a button.
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