Primož Jakopin, photo diary

Uzbekistan 2024
Dehibolo*

August 18, 2024, 27 pictures

          Most images are approximately 768 x 1024 pixels in size, numbers in front of the picture descriptions are serial numbers of the original photo files. The photos show Holidin Poënov (pron. Poyonov) with his wife Dilafruz and her sister Zainap as well as nephews from Dehibolo, members of the Chul-Bair 2024 expedition Dar'ja Krasnojarova - Daša from Varvarinskij in Burjatija (she now lives in Moscow) and Nikolaj Južakov - Kolja from Ekaterinburg.
          According to Holidin, Dehibolo has 987 inhabitants who live in 168 homes.

          Page, texts and photos copyright (c) Primož Jakopin - Klok 2024.


 

Dehibolo


 


 
54091. Stone face in the wall of Mount Buzraha, opposite Dehibolo, across the valley south of the village






 
54095. On the road opposite the house of Holidin and Dilafruz: Dilafruz with Holidin's nephews Orabek, Ziobek and Namaz






 
54092. Orabek






 
54093. Ziobek






 
54094. and Namaz






 
54096. Ice cream with chocolate in a pot and with a wooden stick instead of a spoon






 
54097. Holidin at the rare wooden courtyard doors in the village, they are usually made of metal





Cemetery in Dehibolo


 


 
54102. From a distance, the cemetery looks like a dry meadow with bushes, the grave of Mustafo, the first known explorer of the Boybuloq cave, could not be found. No one in the village knew exactly in which grave he would be. In the photo: three mounds - tombstones are peeking out of the grass, uncut stones without inscriptions.






 
54103. View across the cemetery with cypress trees to the south, towards Mount Buzraha






 
54104. Mounds of recent graves






 
54098. Yellow-flowered bladder senna, Colutea orientalis, ...






 
54099. ... with flowers ...






 
54100. ... and fruits.






 
54105. View across the cemetery fence to the east






 
54111. One of the newer graves, numbered 33






 
54106. Hollyhock Alcea rosea






 
54107. Alfalfa, Medicago sativa






 
54110. Stacked bundles of hay in the meadow above the cemetery, to be carried home by the donkeys.





Dehibolo


 


 
54113. Chevrolet Cobalt LTZ, domestic production (GM Uzbekistan where the state has a majority stake). Despite the road being suitable only for off-road vehicles, one of the villagers came up with it for 180 million soms, mostly from a loan.






 
54115. Holidin with kitten






 
54116. Zainap, younger sister of Dilafruz






 
54118. A seller of clothes and household goods who visits the village every now and then for a day,






 
54121. ... she is his coworker





At Sadik place


 


 
54123. Luxury on the covered terrace - a snack for the members of the expedition who have returned from the mountain and will spend the night at Sadik's house






 
54124. View from the veranda to the south, across Sadik's garden towards Mount Buzraha






 
54125. Daša






 
54126. and Kolja






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          *For greater accuracy the cyrillic names in this report were romanized according to the Scientific transliteration of Cyrillic with the pronunciation of the main additional characters as: č = ch, š = sh, ž = zh, y = hard i, j = y, ë = yo, u = oo - i. e. Dmitrij Čeredničenko = Dmitriy Cherednichenko.


 



 

  From the mountain back to Dehibolo, August 17, 2024     Return from Dehibolo, August 19 and 20, 2024  
 


 


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