A lovely quiet spot tucked away in this little river bed.
I wonder how often it actual runs with water?
John
walked up a hill with his binoculars and on his return said that the
main road was busy with tourists and a herd of camels with two motor
bikes herding them.
I
worked on panorama's and photos. There was no internet.
I
walked out of camp about 1100. The walk up the river in the loose sand
was a good work out. Quite a few flowers and wriggly leafless
plants. The difference to the desserts I have been to in Australia is
quite stark. Here there is no sand dunes or sand. Maybe we should
have gone to the Eastern section.
We
were just exiting the foot hills when I noticed a noise… yes
another spring broken. Top one on the left. Time to replace them all.
The
road is still bad as it gets a lot of fast use by the tourist vans
and4x4’s. Very corrugated in places and we are trying to take it
easy, which is really very hard, as even at 20km/h the vehicle has a
rough ride.
We
arrived at the outskirts of Bulgan about 1500 and stopped for lunch and
internet.
The
reply from Webasto simply said well done and contact our supplier regard warranty.
We
filled with fuel using cash then headed out the 20km’s to the
flaming cliffs.
Found our way through the new perimeter fence and parked with the other
vehicles, all tour groups.
Paying our
10,000 AU$7each we wondered over the hills. The cliffs are the
remains of erosion and are just red clay. But a little interesting.
Parking
to the west we waited for the setting sun to put some life into the
cliffs.
For
some reason I was very tired. I sat in a chair with my book while
John tied the broken leaf to the other springs with some fencing wire.
The lineup of the tourist vans - the UAZ. I ended up helping John and taking a few photos.
Either
our senses are on overload and we are becoming very blasé but the
Gobi has been rather a disappointment.
The sun hid behind the clouds without much color so we left the perimeter and parked on the eastern side to catch sunrise.
John reheated some lamb stew, rice and cabbage. It was still after 2200 when we got to bed.
125km Camp site 1195m alt.