2011 Camel festival

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March 11th 2011

Published: March 20th 2011

After the dramas of the travel in the Russian van for the Ice Festival, I was relieved to step into a relatively new Hyundai 4WD van for the trip to the Gobi. It was clean, spacious and actually had some suspension! However, never count your apples! Just before starting the return journey to UB, Gans, our tour leader, asked the question, "What is a good Mongolian car?". The answer? "A new one!" Wi... Read Full Entry

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Deep snow

Ludo and Gregor hauling their ponies through the snow

Me and Blossom

Group shot

At lunch after a treacherous 3.5 hour ride

Having fun on the ice

Ludo, Gregor and Ramona on ice!

Upright

I was very nervous about this ice walk - but I did stay upright - most of the time!

Relaxing

Just before we ran out of solid ice on which to walk, I took a little break.

Gregor's fox

Frozen solid and missing some significant parts, this hold just makes the fox look like it's sleeping.

Color and reflection

What I would have given for my 'real' camera in this section. My mini-digital did not do the area justice

Speed bump

Interesting stress point in the ice

Ramona's best shot

I had to steal this from Ramona. I love this pic.

Frozen

More frozen stream shots

Homeward bound

A much more straight forward and easy ride home

Deep

We still tackled some deep snow on the homeward journey

Sand dune climb

What lay before us

Sunset

Taken from half way up the sand dune - as far as I managed!

Ready boys?

Our riding camels before being saddled up

On the way up

It was interesting being on camel back under these sandy and icy conditions, to say the least

Turn around point

Wish we had have been able to trek on a bit longer!

Dunes

Great change in landscape - sand, desert, mountains!

Ice

The ice gives away the fact these dunes are not in Morocco or Egypt!

Alex and Ramona

Just finishing their canter down the dunes

20th March 2011

Marg
non-member comment

End of Mongolia
You have kept me enthralled with your blog, have shown various grandkids some of them while visiting me. All you need to do now is to get a similar jod in Peru, Equador or Costa Rica and I will be in 7th heaven. Hope to see you back in Australia PS I saw some of the vultures circling while in Mongolia

30th March 2011

mharleyuk
mharleyuk

Great 'people' pictures
Merryn, Great pictures of people, particularly the guy carrying the polo mallets, and 'Jarmin' drinking from a bowl. Good 'National Geographic' type pictures and you've done well to capture them when it looks like they weren't aware. You use a long lens on them? Welcome back to Melbourne & the heat. Time to breathe a sigh of relief. Speak soon. Mart.

12th June 2011

The Travel Camel
Shane Dallas

Fantastic Camel Photos!
Thanks for such a great blog - the Camel Festival is definitely on my future travel plans.

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