{"id":48322,"date":"2026-02-25T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48322"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:55:03","slug":"a-horseman-in-ala-archa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/a-horseman-in-ala-archa\/","title":{"rendered":"A horseman in Ala Archa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ala-Archa_Nature_Park\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ala-Archa_Nature_Park\">Ala Archa Valley<\/a><\/strong>, in the heart of the <strong>Kyrgyz mountains<\/strong>, horsemen ride along narrow trails between pine trees and glaciers. Their horses climb steep slopes, their proud silhouettes standing out against the clear sky, perpetuating a nomadic tradition as old as the steppes themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along frozen rivers and high-altitude meadows, they sometimes guide their herds, attentive to changes in the sky. The wind carries the scent of dry grass and the jingle of harnesses, while snow-capped peaks dominate their slow progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits: Salom\u00e9 Aldeguer-Roure<\/strong> (France)<\/p>\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>In the Ala Archa Valley, in the heart of the Kyrgyz mountains, horsemen ride along narrow trails between pine trees and glaciers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4914,2578,4052,4002],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-alar-archa","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-mountains","tag-photo-of-the-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48322","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=48322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48325,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48322\/revisions\/48325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48322"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}