Buzkashi - Afghanistan's national sport (20 images)

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Big and restless horses with serious looking and arrogant horsemen high in their saddles are riding like majesties into the old, dusty, but still impressive and admirable Buzkashi Stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan. The audience is already there and is almost as impatient as the horses. Buzkashi means "goat-fetching" or "goat-killing", and is the national sport of Afghanistan. Watching such a fight feels like travelling 1000 years back in time; it smells of war, manhood and...
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