Blue Mongolia

Mongolia is quite big…..and empty….

Mongolian tea is salty. Many Mongolian lakes are salty. Sometimes the only water you can get for the day is salty lake water…..but at least you can get a swim and clothes wash at the same time.

Camping is easy here! Just pull off the track….find a nice spot and pitch your tent…fantastic.. It is possible though that a Mongolian wind may pick up in the night!! Then your tent will be leaning at about 45% and sleep will be impossible.

Everywhere there are boys on horses….often racing each other across the plains, with much whooping Mongolian stylee! It does look fun and a great way to grow up.

We met these two three times! Once at a Ganz (tea house,) once in a shop and then on the road on their way to shoot something! (probably a grouse type bird, but who knows!) The gun is Mongolian, the bike is a Russian “ISH” and the clothes were made by their mothers…. Lucky lads!! (Nic thinks that they were off to impress the local women in the next village!!...you decide?)