{"id":48292,"date":"2026-02-06T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48292"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:56:24","slug":"kok-boru-in-the-chong-kemin-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/kok-boru-in-the-chong-kemin-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Kok Boru in the Chong Kemin Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chong-Kemin_Nature_Park#cite_note-oopt-2\">Chong Kemin Valley<\/a><\/strong> lies at the heart of the natural park of the same name. Located to the north, around 93 miles from Bishkek, this 303,000-acre park was created in 1997 to preserve its exceptional flora and fauna (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snow_leopard\">snow leopard<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_eagle\">golden eagle<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caspian_red_deer\">maral deer<\/a><\/strong>). <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buzkashi\">Kok-boru<\/a><\/strong>, a Kyrgyz equestrian sport, has been part of Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s intangible cultural heritage since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits: Etienne de Vaumas<\/strong> (France)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chong Kemin Valley lies at the heart of the natural park of the same name. Located to the north, around 93 miles from Bishkek, this 303,000-acre park was created in 1997 to preserve its exceptional flora and fauna (snow leopard, golden eagle, maral deer). Kok-boru, a Kyrgyz equestrian sport, has been part of Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[630,2578,4366,4002,4013],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-kok-boru","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-mountain","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-snow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48295,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48292\/revisions\/48295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48292"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}