Digital nomads and travellers welcome spring on the Kazakh steppe in Nauryz - where ancestral flames, sheephead feasts and knucklebones games kick off a 10-day nomad festival.

In a horse farm on the outskirts of the southern city of Shymkent in Kazakhstan on March 20, horse racing games in celebration of Nauryz were in full swing.

Nauryz is a traditional folk spring festival based on the worship of nature, the sun and the universe. Observed in several countries in Asia and the Middle East, it is associated with a love of nature ...