A few years ago I read about a charity organisation called Relief Riders, which transports medical supplies and expertise into rural areas of India on horseback. It's funded as a horse riding trek for adventurous travellers looking for something different. Paying guests volunteer to assist setting up the medical tents and register the villagers, and the medical supplies are subsidised by the cost of the tour. I didn't have plans to visit India, but always thought if I did I would do the relief ride.
This year Relief Riders announced they will for the first time be riding in Turkey. General medical care is much better in Turkey than it is in rural India but dental services are lacking. The relief ride will provide dental treatment in villages in the dramatic region of Cappadocia where, as luck would have it, I was already heading. Kismet? So I've signed on. The ride is from 17-30 June and visits the spectacular volcanic landscape of "fairy chimneys" (known in the US as hoodoos), tall spires of stone into which the Turkish locals fashioned houses from carved caves centuries ago.
I probably should mention that I don't know how to ride a horse.
This year Relief Riders announced they will for the first time be riding in Turkey. General medical care is much better in Turkey than it is in rural India but dental services are lacking. The relief ride will provide dental treatment in villages in the dramatic region of Cappadocia where, as luck would have it, I was already heading. Kismet? So I've signed on. The ride is from 17-30 June and visits the spectacular volcanic landscape of "fairy chimneys" (known in the US as hoodoos), tall spires of stone into which the Turkish locals fashioned houses from carved caves centuries ago.
I probably should mention that I don't know how to ride a horse.
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