Mongolia Tour - Day 6, Part II climbing the dune

Gras was growing on the dusty dune. Together with the wind it draws beautiful "pictures in the sand" 

 The view from the top of the dune... By the way: The dune is around 150m high. And it´s called the "singing dune" because during the summer time the wind makes the dune singing. In the background you can see our gers.

 

At the top of the dune Jo takes a sun bath. 

 

A view from the dunes to the other direction. 

 

The next pictures just without any comment... 

Sometimes it´s better just to let him hanging...

 

Sometimes he´s becoming real big... Something must be done!

Sex on the dune should help...

 

But Eva checked my fake... 

 

Maybe Jo should become the woman... 

No! I want to be the strong man!

 

But now it´s pooping time... 

 

Back to culture!!! 

These signs are from a sort of sand bug that are running all over the dune...

Mongolia Tour - Day 6, Part I camel riding

 

The day started as nearly every day in Mongolia: Blue sky, nice weather and a very beautiful view when you go out of the Ger. 

 

Then a good breakfast and after that a walk to the toilet for the morning sh...t. This toilet was the best! The chimney behind led all the stinky gas out of the toilet. Great!!!! 

 

The same procedure as every day: Bayra was repairing something at our Russian van. This time it was the sealing of the wheel bearing

And also many house animals were walking around. 

 

In the morning we went camel riding. The camels were a bit stinky and always hungry, but quite easy to handle compared to the Mongolian horses. We enjoyed it!

 

Jo taking a rest in the sand... 

 

 On the way back to our Gers.

Mongolia Tour - Day 5

 

Unfortunately Mongolia has a problem with rubbish. In rural areas everybody is just burning the rubbish and putting it afterwards in a hole in the ground. You can often see tumbling rubbish everywhere... 

 Another scenic spot in the Gobi Desert: The flaming cliffs. You can find a lot of dinosaur fossils, if you walk around the sandy stones. You can also easily destroy the cliffs with your hand, because of the soft, sandy structure of the stones. 

 Jo found a fossil of a T-Rex!!

 Some more impressions on the next pictures...(With a click on the picture you can enlarge them, so it is even more impressive)

 

The so called "Schnittlauch" (chive) desert! Unbelievable: when we stopped for lunch somewhere in the Gobi desert, we found chive everywhere on the ground!

The nomadic people have a good recipe: they put chive together with some salt in a glass and eat this kind of relish together with bread. Yummy! 

 

We stopped for lunch in the "Schnittlauch" desert and Oyonaa prepared some good food for us. 

 

After lunch we continued our journey in the direction to the big sand dunes (the biggest in the Gobi desert). 

 

The sand dune was amazing! 

 

... and exhausting to climb :-) (More pictures on the next day...) 

 Beautiful scenery in the evening.

 

We stayed two days at this place. To be continued... 

Mongolia - Tour day 4

 

A petrol station somewhere in the nowhere on our tour to the red cliffs. Around 300km south of Ulaan Bataar. 

A toilet as it is usual in Mongolia without Ulaan Bataar. There is just a wooden or metal hut on a big hole. Yeah and in this hole you ... in.

Sometimes they are using old newspaper or books as toilet paper. So everything is far away from what Jo likes to do on a German toilet. No toilet bowl, no heating, no coffee, no newspaper, nothing!!!! 

The first camels we saw...

For lunch we stopped at a nomadic family. The hospitality is very great all over Mongolia. You can come to every ger and the family would never ever send you away! You can cook in the ger, you always get a warm tea with milk and salt and some homemade cookies! Imagine if a group of tourist come to your home and ask if they can cook in your kitchen... Unbelievable.

Here you can see the housemother together with her little daughter. The snickers we gave to her was a big, big variation towards her normal sweets. 

 

View out of the ger. By the way: Every nomadic family has a dog. But normally they throw every day some stones at the dog to educate him. 

 

They don´t have a fridge... So the meat is just lying on the ground covered with some rag. We got some meat for our soup. It was delicious! 

All together outside of the ger. The solar panel and the TV is also for nomadic families a quite usual thing. In this ger we got the only information what was happening in the world: Bavaria Munich won in the Champions League 2:1 and Schweinsteiger made two goals. Jo was happy.

We visited also the water hole of the family... The waterhole was three kilometers away from the ger. The river that was there once has disappeared due to climatic change. Mongolia really has to suffer under climatic change!

The waterhole part II

 

Someone was really hungry... Poor camels. We made this picture during our walk through a part of the red cliffs area. More impressions just on the next pics...

 

Jo was also hungry! 

 

If Mongolians don´t have any fire wood they just collect horse and camel shit. Its working very good.