The Gobe

21st September

This is the final stretch of our Trans-Mong experience. Have left Ulaanbaatar and are heading south towards China. The scenery is fast changing from quintessential Mongolian rolling grassland to desert. The gers are becoming less frequent although we have passed several horsemen hurding in their traditional dress.

We have just passed through 'Eagle Valley', a wide floodplain where I have seen about 30 big beast eagles sitting on posts, stretching their wings, slowly gliding and even being mobbed by a flock of crows. It seemed that this stretch of steppe could not support such a large group of predators but there they were, not mating, not feeding, just chilling. Maybe it was a Mongolian Tourism stunt...