Iceland, Here I Come « Baablog
Nine years ago Randy and I took an unforgettable journey to Iceland, a country that had long captured my imagination. On a bit of a whim, we decided to take a four-day horseback-riding tour not far from Reykjavik. An avid rider in my youth, I had not been on horseback much in the nearly twenty years since leaving home for college. Randy’s exposure to horses was limited to one year of jumping instruction just after college. It was our last exotic trip before becoming parents: that fall we would travel to South Korea on the greatest adventure of all – to meet Kun-Woo.
We rode on the famed Icelandic horses, descendants of those first introduced by the Vikings over one thousand years ago. By 1100, in an effort to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, all further importation of livestock was banned. Because of its isolation, the breed is one of the purest in the world: like the country’s cows and sheep, these horses suffer from few of the infectious diseases that threaten horses elsewhere. The flies are not known to carry disease. Therefore, if an Icelandic horse is exported to another part of the world, he may never return to his home. In fact, visiting riders must bring new or disinfected boots and other equipment, so that no foreign organisms are introduced. The Icelandic horse is renowned for its levelheaded disposition, its flowing and luxuriously thick mane and tail, and its five natural gaits. Not only do these equines walk, trot, and canter like other horses, but they also tölt and pace. It is the celebrated tölt that allows for wonderfully smooth, long days of riding. In this four-beat gait, the hooves move in the same pattern as in the walk, but at variable speed. One or two hooves are always on the ground, so there is no suspension, resulting in a smooth, virtually bounce-free ride.
If you have read this far, you are wondering, “What does this have to do with sheep, this is the Baablog after all?” Well, the answer is clear.
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