{"id":5989,"date":"2015-10-18T08:56:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T08:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2015-10-18T08:59:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T08:59:26","slug":"golden-eagle-festival-2015-in-mongolia-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/golden-eagle-festival-2015-in-mongolia-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Eagle festival 2015 in Mongolia (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>more images of the Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia<\/p>\n<p>The first part can be found here<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/golden-eagle-festival-2015-in-mongolia\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/golden-eagle-festival-2015-in-mongolia\/<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>all images taken with D4s with 300mm f2.8<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of the first image, which was taken with the nikon\u00a0 14-24mm\u00a0 f2.8<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_4171(pp_w768_h451).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_4171%28pp_w480_h282%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_4171%28pp_w768_h451%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_4171.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><\/p>\n<p>before the festival, we were hosted by a kazakh family for 2 days<\/p>\n<p>We stayed in the Ger and experienced the daily routine and activities of the family<\/p>\n<p>In this image, the brothers were trying to bring down the horse, to change its horse shoe<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the horse struggled a fair bit before it was brought down<\/p>\n<p>Will upload more images of this unique experience once I have edited them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_0282(pp_w768_h511).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_0282%28pp_w480_h319%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_0282%28pp_w768_h511%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_0282.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><\/p>\n<p>The girl in the middle is one of the youngest participant of this year\u2019s festival<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5025(pp_w768_h501).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5025%28pp_w480_h313%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5025%28pp_w768_h501%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5025.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><\/p>\n<p>This is Ashol Pan, the winner of last year\u2019s Golden Eagle Festival. She was only 13 last year<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5033(pp_w768_h511).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5033%28pp_w480_h319%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5033%28pp_w768_h511%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5033.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><\/p>\n<p>Ashol Pan arriving at the festival<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5524(pp_w768_h580).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5524%28pp_w480_h362%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5524%28pp_w768_h580%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5524.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><\/p>\n<p>Ashol Pan with her childlike innocence<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5569(pp_w768_h511).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5569%28pp_w480_h319%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5569%28pp_w768_h511%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5569.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><\/p>\n<p>arrival of more eagle hunters<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5831(pp_w768_h483).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5831%28pp_w480_h302%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5831%28pp_w768_h483%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_5831.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><\/p>\n<p>eagles are being released from the top of the mountain, and the hunters are to use a bait to guide the eagles back to their arms<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_6278(pp_w768_h396).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_6278%28pp_w480_h248%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_6278%28pp_w768_h396%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_6278.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_6384(pp_w768_h440).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_6384%28pp_w480_h275%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_6384%28pp_w768_h440%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_6384.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_7093(pp_w768_h512).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_7093%28pp_w480_h320%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_7093%28pp_w768_h512%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_7093.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_7553(pp_w768_h495).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_7553%28pp_w480_h309%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_7553%28pp_w768_h495%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_7553.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><\/p>\n<p>Another fascinating competition was \u2018tenge Ily\u2019; grabbing an object from the ground while riding on a horse. Each horse rider had to grab 3 yellow objects as fast as possible<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_11571(pp_w768_h498).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_11571%28pp_w480_h311%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_11571%28pp_w768_h498%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_11571.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_2909-2(pp_w768_h770).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"837\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_2909-2%28pp_w480_h481%29.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_2909-2%28pp_w768_h770%29.jpg 768w,https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JNX_2909-2.jpg 837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201ckukhbar\u201d competition (traditional horse back riding game to fight over the goat skin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>more images of the Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia The first part can be found here https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/golden-eagle-festival-2015-in-mongolia\/ \u00a0 \u00a0 all images taken with D4s with 300mm f2.8 With the exception of the first image, which was taken with the nikon\u00a0 14-24mm\u00a0 f2.8 before the festival, we were hosted by a kazakh family for 2 days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,53],"tags":[286,285,287,290,281,270,291,289,269,280,282,288,50,176,279,32,16,348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}