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Article: Belly-down on frozen drift: a guide to the hunting countries of northern and eastern Asia.
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- October 1, 2008
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In the August issue, we traveled through southwest Asia from Turkish Anatolia, to Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan, largely Muslim countries with desert geography. We stalked Eurasian boar, Persian goitered gazelle, Dagestan tur, trans-Caspian urial, mid-Asian ibex, and Marco Polo argali, and with any luck, we absorbed some culture and learned how to get along with locals.
Kyrgyzstan
Drive north from the famed Marco Polo sheep pastures in the high Pamirs along the Pamir fork of the Silk Road and you'll end up in Kyrgyzstan. Bordering Tajikistan to the north, Kyrgyzstan owns good populations of mid-Asian ibex and Hume argali, Ovis ammon humei, ...