Mongolia desert
Try to make heads or tails out of this one...I was importing and exporting photos...gook luck.
If you look real close, you might be able to see the sheik trying to peek over the sand dunes looking for some oasis or sumpin?
Tried to get these in order but they are backwards.
Bottom first....on our way to the desert...a 4 hour trip...lots to see..nothing to do. Our guide, a young lady had stayed out late with the boys and was hung over...she apologized profusely but it didn't matter to us....anyway...you may not see it well but these a small little places and I find it hard to imagine people actually living in some of the conditions...they live in brick boxes with broken windows...amenities that we would have...abject poverty....perhaps like on the reserves...but I think even worse as it appears they have no services...like hospitals or cars or electricity...I am not sure.....quite an eye opener. Mules pulling a plow and plowing up the fields....men and women digging up potatoes....looks like stooking grain and I saw open areas in the village where they would beat the grain out of the husk on the ground....and I finally found out a good reason for some flat roofs...they use that area to dry out the corn .....and yes mom they still stook grain and harvest just like back in the good old days but if you saw the conditions I am sure you would not want to go back.....but they did look happy....
Some other points...a three wheeled truck was loaded with the stalks of corn...it took up 3/4 of the road and we were forced to drive on the shoulder...seems like a normal occurence....and we even saw some of them in the big cities.....don't know what they used the corn husks for but they were taken somewhere...didn't get a picture of that.....saw the aftermath of an accident....a motorbike had collided with one of those three wheel trucks...the bike was implanted into the grill...don't see how the driver could have survived...expecially since many of them don't even wear helmets..lots of people standing around talking....
Drove by a small town and it was market day...lots of produce on the boulevard...even the butchered sheep...also many hanging on what looked like coat racks....you just pick the one that you want......couple had the head removed and were being cleaned and skinned...right on main street...I guess you would grow up fast with that sort of thing happening on a daily basis....as I said, a real eye opener......lots of farms and lots of people working in the field harvesting whatever....sheep grazing...a cow here or there...tethered donkeys.....donkeys pulling carts...old vehicles loaded with everything that they were picking..they love their watermelon......drove by three nuclear reactors....I think....over that 4 hour period....and finally came to the desert...not the Gobi but the desert was taking over the land as you saw trees that were slowly being covered.
Got a picture of the group putting on our sand slippers so that sand wouldn't get in your shoes.....a good idea and a money maker...
And who was that guy from the movies...oh yeah, Lawrence of Arabia...well not quite maybe Darryl from Saskatchewan!!!!
If you look real close, you might be able to see the sheik trying to peek over the sand dunes looking for some oasis or sumpin?
Tried to get these in order but they are backwards.
Bottom first....on our way to the desert...a 4 hour trip...lots to see..nothing to do. Our guide, a young lady had stayed out late with the boys and was hung over...she apologized profusely but it didn't matter to us....anyway...you may not see it well but these a small little places and I find it hard to imagine people actually living in some of the conditions...they live in brick boxes with broken windows...amenities that we would have...abject poverty....perhaps like on the reserves...but I think even worse as it appears they have no services...like hospitals or cars or electricity...I am not sure.....quite an eye opener. Mules pulling a plow and plowing up the fields....men and women digging up potatoes....looks like stooking grain and I saw open areas in the village where they would beat the grain out of the husk on the ground....and I finally found out a good reason for some flat roofs...they use that area to dry out the corn .....and yes mom they still stook grain and harvest just like back in the good old days but if you saw the conditions I am sure you would not want to go back.....but they did look happy....
Some other points...a three wheeled truck was loaded with the stalks of corn...it took up 3/4 of the road and we were forced to drive on the shoulder...seems like a normal occurence....and we even saw some of them in the big cities.....don't know what they used the corn husks for but they were taken somewhere...didn't get a picture of that.....saw the aftermath of an accident....a motorbike had collided with one of those three wheel trucks...the bike was implanted into the grill...don't see how the driver could have survived...expecially since many of them don't even wear helmets..lots of people standing around talking....
Drove by a small town and it was market day...lots of produce on the boulevard...even the butchered sheep...also many hanging on what looked like coat racks....you just pick the one that you want......couple had the head removed and were being cleaned and skinned...right on main street...I guess you would grow up fast with that sort of thing happening on a daily basis....as I said, a real eye opener......lots of farms and lots of people working in the field harvesting whatever....sheep grazing...a cow here or there...tethered donkeys.....donkeys pulling carts...old vehicles loaded with everything that they were picking..they love their watermelon......drove by three nuclear reactors....I think....over that 4 hour period....and finally came to the desert...not the Gobi but the desert was taking over the land as you saw trees that were slowly being covered.
Got a picture of the group putting on our sand slippers so that sand wouldn't get in your shoes.....a good idea and a money maker...
And who was that guy from the movies...oh yeah, Lawrence of Arabia...well not quite maybe Darryl from Saskatchewan!!!!
You guessed it .....the place where we got our camels....CAMELOT
Came across this family when we first got there....They walked right by us...no concern at all..
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