Kyrgyzstan promotes its traditional mare’s milk to lure tourists

BISHKEK, July 20 (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan is looking for to draw extra vacationers by selling its conventional kumis – fermented mare’s milk – which locals drink and bathe in and say is sweet for his or her well being.

The transfer comes as curiosity in fermented and probiotic drinks is hovering in lots of nations.

The significance of kumis to Kyrgyz tradition is demonstrated by the truth that the Central Asian former Soviet republic’s capital, Bishkek, is known as after a paddle used to churn the fermenting milk.

By way of promotional movies and festivals, Kyrgyzstan is encouraging vacationers to expertise the normal nomadic Kyrgyz life-style by sleeping in a yurt in a lush mountain pasture near the herds of horses which give the milk.

Vacationers may drink contemporary native milk, often called saamal, within the yurts.

“We determined to strive it after listening to about saamal and kumis from our associates who had visited Kyrgyzstan,” says Ibrahim al-Sharif, a vacationer from Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

“I can not even describe its style. There may be nothing in Saudi Arabia that I’d evaluate with it.”

Milking a mare is much trickier than milking a cow and requires the particular person to primarily hug the animal’s thigh to achieve. The milking is completed between mid-Might and mid-July, with the looks of the Pleiades star cluster within the evening sky a conventional signal of its finish.

Reporting by Marlis Myrzakul Uulu
Writing by Olzhas Auyezov, Enhancing by Alexandra Hudson

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