Modern farmers follow the centuries old nomadic tradition of relocating from settlements to the plateau to tend to their livestock for a summer season. Reuters photographer Shamil Zhumatov takes a look athe daily life of nowadays farmers from the mountainous Assy plateau, about 2,500 meters (8,202 feet) above sea level, some 90 kilometres (56 miles) east of Almaty
Kazakhstan: Nomads daily life
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Sheep graze near yurts.
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Zhambytai Zhumaliyava (L), a farmer's wife, and her granddaughter Ayazhan prepare traditional kurt cheese balls for drying inside a yurt
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A family has breakfast inside a yurt.
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Farmer Turgynbay Erkinbekov (L), 70, talks to his one-and-a-half-year-old grandson Nurtleu near their horses.