On our bumpy slow trip back we took a couple of pictures of the traditional and very common farmhouses. All fronts of the homes were facing east. It appeared that they used large wooden poles to frame the house with very thick mud or cement sides. Downstairs is the barn area (to keep the yak, sheep, and goats warm) with family quarters upstairs. Food and fuel storage is in the attic. In the fields there were large barley racks for drying the barley and the fences were made out of woven reeds or sticks. Almost all of the homes had a satellite dish. It just seemed so weird that most of these people did not have cars, or farm machinery, they warmed their houses and food with Yak manure but they had a satillite dish......
