We drove a few hours to meet the Gujars. They live an old fashioned nomad life style and you can see them in caravans moving from place to place. We were lucky to find them setting camp for the night before they would continue their journey up in the mountains.
Not all of the gypsies move around. There are other tribes that are more sedentaries and once they set camp, they stay for a long time. This is the case of a family we meet that are growing rice and other vegetables in the pastures of this amazing landscapes.
Children attend a mobile school that follows them in the caravan. However, I believe that more than reading and writting, the nomad life and their conection with nature teaches them a lesson that no school or book can ever achieve...
While I was there I was amazed by the fact that there are people living this life without any organized structures of hierarchy nor materialistic oriented cultures . We, "civilized people" try to find the best government system and we claim to our own benefit which one it could be, from comunism, socialism, democracy, etc. I find all of them to be fallibles, imperfect, corrupted. I found in this "uncivilized" nomads the perfect life of community, interdependance and trust...