Our new guide and driver arrive at 8 am sharp to pick us up from our guesthouse. We are heading into the desert. Looking forward to some heat and sunshine. It is going to be along day of driving. We have to go just under 300k and it will take us 7hrs? Brutal. WE drive along some pretty rolling hills... and some more pretty rolling hills. Oh my it is getting flatter and flatter. Saskatchewan must be right around the corner. Then all of a sudden there is a massive mountain. Crazy landscape. We stop at this specail ovoo. Which is the pile of rocks with lots of offering to Buddah. There is an underground spring here that bubbles up through a hole in a rock. there is a dipper to get some water out. Suppose to be good for your eyesight. the hole is empty. sad... I guess I will still wear my contacts for a while yet. The monks come here to pray and make a pilgremgage.
We keep driving into these cool rocks they are round and smooth with lots of cracks. Kinda moon like. And hidden in the rocks are these acient ruins. Used to be 50 monks living here. The monastary was destroyed by Russians and partially rebuilt. There are poplar trees here. In this dry arid rocky area just within the monastary grounds there are poplar trees. Healthy and green. Hmmm bigger power keeping them alive?
WE over night next to a nomadic family's ger. They insist on feeding us til we burst. We are sleeping in tents this trip. So after alot and I mean alot of dairy products we retire to our comfy sleeping bags . It is windy and looks like rain. But we are well protected.
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