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August 25th 2011

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Hello everyone! This is going to be a surprisingly short post considering how much has happened in the last month, but its precisely because so much has happened that I am going to let the pictures and accompanying text do all the talking, Mongolia was simply amazing, but not easy. It was a rapid process of readjustment. A few weeks before Mongolia I would have gawped at the prospect of not ha... Read Full Entry

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Milking the Camels in the morning. As you do. Apart from the Ger and a few other items, these Animals are all these people have and they depend on them for everything.

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The Gobi was a punishing place to be. Dry heat like I have never experienced. You could wet your clothes and in minutes they would be bone dry. Even at night the wind felt like it was coming from an oven. Gave a small taste of what my father must have endured driving through the Sahara all those years ago.

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Ok, it may not look much to you but after a few days in the desert this looked like paradise to us. Civilisation. The prospect of running water to wash in and bottled water to drink.

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I got bored with walking and decided to climb until the chaps and chapesses came back from walking.

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A mid journey fuel stop. I liked to help Adjua with these sorts of things. I wanted to prove I was a real man who understood rugged things like cars and engines and stuff.

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Sand Dunes contrasting with Mountains © John Calwell (2011)

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One day we when Camel Riding. Oh how terribly touristy of us….

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Fed looking great even on a Camel. On the face of it Fed was not suited to this kind of travelling, it turned out however that he had travelled across Pakistan on the back of a Camel for two weeks and had also lived in a Slum in India for two years so was actually used to a bit a roughing it.

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Sun behind sand dune © John Calwell (2011)

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Becca looking like TinTin in TinTin and the Land of the Black Gold. Sort of.

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Blade of Grass blown in circular motion by wind on sand dune © John Calwell (2011). Ok, sorry but what I can I write about these sort of arty shots?

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Adjua tinkering one evening. Adjua was always tinkering with his Van. He reminded me a bit of my friend Gavin, extremely mechanically competent and a superb driver.

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Fed enjoying another pampering. One day when I commented on how fascinating it was that these people had survived for so long with this difficult lifestyle, Fed announced that there were three stages of living. Surviving. Living. And Living with a Cosmopolitan. Sadly for Fed we didn’t see one Cosmo on the entire trip despite his constant demands.

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The facilities

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Mongolia is all about big skies. The sky dominates everything, its hard to explain to you back home, but the sky seems bigger out there.

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Every night we were treated to the most wonderful of Sunsets.

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More big Vistas

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A running repair, one of the sparkplugs stopped working in the middle of the desert, Adjua changed it in a few minutes. Reminded me of when my old Porsche kept breaking on the way to the Nurburgring in Germany and Gavin saved the day countless times by fixing it on the side of the road.

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Its true, the Bike has replaced the Horse for many Mongolians, but they are just as skilled at both.

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Latitia giving the river second thoughts, or perhaps Feds shorts were too shocking?

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A wee drinking game introduced by Bysa, it involved doing two things at once, not my forte, so after about third a pint of Vodka I declared myself out and took pictures instead.

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