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.