The day began with some good news about relatively warmer weather to the south where we were
heading. Happily off to search for water but this particular well had runneth frozen.
Again meterology fails us at such crucial junctures. This can't be a good sign.
Felt bad for our host but he didn't seem perturbed as this was
probably a regular occurrence so with heartfelt thanks we were on our way again.
Headed into Erdenedalay to catch the temple and....well nothing else really.
This is appropriately the middle of nowhere nearby. How the driver keeps finding these places
using his head and not via GPS (the scarcity of landmarks hours at a time makes giving
directions useless) still causes us to scratch our heads.
This being the season of birth we were fortunate to catch sheep along the way giving birth
real time. The less pictures of that the better for you all.
Lunch again inside the Jeep no questions asked.
We seem to be leaving the snow behind now and there are just pockets of ice. Except that
there seems to be a blizzard ahead which combined with the lack of road signs or any indicators
makes for the perfect whiteout! The camels don't seem to care though. Advantage them.
Grinded it out the next couple hours and did the usual knock and barge our way into a ger.
(That warm weather never materialized)
Thank goodness for nomads. Our tents have yet to see daylight or lay on tundra.
Dinner and more snuff. Sniff, sniff, pass.
heading. Happily off to search for water but this particular well had runneth frozen.
Again meterology fails us at such crucial junctures. This can't be a good sign.
Felt bad for our host but he didn't seem perturbed as this was
probably a regular occurrence so with heartfelt thanks we were on our way again.
Headed into Erdenedalay to catch the temple and....well nothing else really.
This is appropriately the middle of nowhere nearby. How the driver keeps finding these places
using his head and not via GPS (the scarcity of landmarks hours at a time makes giving
directions useless) still causes us to scratch our heads.
This being the season of birth we were fortunate to catch sheep along the way giving birth
real time. The less pictures of that the better for you all.
Lunch again inside the Jeep no questions asked.
We seem to be leaving the snow behind now and there are just pockets of ice. Except that
there seems to be a blizzard ahead which combined with the lack of road signs or any indicators
makes for the perfect whiteout! The camels don't seem to care though. Advantage them.
Grinded it out the next couple hours and did the usual knock and barge our way into a ger.
(That warm weather never materialized)
Thank goodness for nomads. Our tents have yet to see daylight or lay on tundra.
Dinner and more snuff. Sniff, sniff, pass.
 |
| now i have a long cold walk ahead |
 |
| the gloves we should have had |
 |
| This is actually a road |
 |
| paying respect |
 |
| when the weather was still good |
 |
| The camels who laugh at us |
No comments:
Post a Comment