Yezidi Family Prepares for Summer High in the Geghard Mountains

Gyavas is the Yezidi woman seen in the accompanying photo.She is busy preparing everything the family will need to spend the next three months in the mountains of Geghard with their grazing livestock.

It’s a ritual that plays out every year immediately after the June rains.It has taken the family’s herd of 120 cattle two days to reach the cooler climes of the mountains.It will take the family just over one hour by truck early next morning.

Gyavas has been preparing for the move for the past month.There’s a lot of stuff that needs to be packed and transported up into the hills tables, chairs, bed frames, warm clothes, kitchen utensils, equipment to milk the cows and make cheese.The list goes on.

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