Day 5

What a beautiful day, they obviously call Mongolia the land of the eternal blue sky for a reason. We left khovsgul lake to head towards ? Volcano and the white lake.
It was a beautiful day of driving over mountain passes and vast plains, lenticular clouds, the countryside with dustings of snow again.

We stopped for lunch in shine-idle, rice and vegetables cooked next to some sort of animal carcus.

After heading to the town after shine-inle to ensure the most of the day after (volcano, lake and also my 25th birthday!), we had to find a place to stay. The local school put us up in an old dormatory, slightly creepy but warm with central heating. It means we can sleep through the night without tending to the fire. I'm overwhelmed by the kindness I've been shown by the Mongolian people. They are tough people, but soft inside I think.

The herder children live here in a dormatory building, four to a room boys on the bottom floor and girls upstairs, it was quiet and clean and full of inquisitive faces not knowing how to interpret us being in their small mountain village.

We had veggie soup for dinner.Okumaya devam et