We travelled to Moust to visit herder community groups who had started to receive tourists and wanted advice. Moust is in the Altai Sayan, a great undeveloped mountain region straddling borders of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and China, recognised by WWF as one of great unspoilt eco regions of asia, and currently supported by a UNDP project. This is home to snow leopards, argali sheep and wild goats, a bleak semi desert mountain range with permanent snow fields on summits, a stunning place. We visited herders, talked about tourists, played games, drank tea, and took photos of each other whilst lammergeirs and black vultures glided overhead. I want to go back in the summer.
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