Outer Outer Mongolia

For four days we toured around central Mongolia with
a Sarah's friend Gans as our guide and a driver named
Enkbayar from Gans' tour company .


The lack of sealed road meant that we didn't travel a huge
distance. This road is marked on our map of Mongolia as a
major highway. Depsite the slow driving, we saw a lot along
the way. See below.


Samuel in his safari gear, ready for an adventure across
the steppes. Our guide Gans is looking on.


Samuel loved seeing the horses on the steppes. He always greeted
them with an enthusiastic "neiggghhh".


Give me a home on the steppes, with lots of pets, horse out
the back, motor bike out the front and a couple of old gers.


A Mongolian traffic jam.


The toilet at a small road house that we stopped at along the way.


There were many cranes happily at home
on the steppes.


A little ger dweller watching us pass by with interest.


Yak, yak, yak.


A three ger camp like this was a rare sight. The
nomadic families seem to usually keep their gers a fair way
apart to ensure that the surrounding land isn't overgrazed.


Yep, there was actually some traffic out there.


Another little ger dweller wondering what we're doing at his
house.


Although the landscape seemed so barren and
unpopulated, if you could see animals you could
be sure that there would be a family camped
somewhere nearby.