After having risen early from his bed,  The Wandelgek decided to make a wake up call for the sun ? Then the sun rose too?

It was a beautiful sunrise and The Wandelgek decided to walk to and down the breakwave and enjoy thecearly morninglight that was now engulfing the ger campsite…

There was no one else out of bed yet and walking towards the lake he only saw a few birds…

Yesterday evening some people had been feasting pat the boat wreck near the lake….

They had made a small fire within a rubber tire, but they had left a lot of cans that should have been collected as garbage…

Walking along the water’s edge where foam was created by the tiny waves …

After my return from the walk there were more people up and we could go for breakfast. After that we gathered our luggage and entered the bus, it drove to the eastside of the lake.

At the yellow A on the north side of the lake, was our ger campsite. You can see the breakwave going south into the lake. From there we rode eastward towards the yellow B, where the road distances from the lake at a spot where a small almost dried up river joins the lake.

This spot was seemingly an ideal place for local nomads to let their cattle herds of sheep, goats and cows drink. There were also many birds in the area.

The road circumnavigated a low wet area before returning towards the lake again.

Cows went for a drink too.

The sun was high in the sky and the lake and sky had become clear blue.

Near the lake were some  bleak, red colored cabins that seemed marooned right now. The tin roof was sky blue. A bird of prey, probably an eagle was landing on the roof and sat there for a short while. Then it left…

A bot further where the road hit the lake’s shore, there were three eagles overlooking the lake (can you spot them?)…

We had now reached the spot where the road was leaving the lake, going south.

The bus passed a vertical pole full of buddhist prayer flags…

Then the bus drove soith into a very broad and flat valley covered with grass…

Above in the sky, circled eagles searching for prey. Beside the road on many kilometer markers and on electricity poles, other eagles and probably a falcon or a hawk had found a moment to rest or to spy the graslands for prey, without having to fly and waste precious energy…

 

The bus moved further into the valley until the rolling hills of Mongolia seemed at a very large distance. The Wandelgek had now reached the heartland of the largest empire that had ever been on this planet; the ancient Mongolian empire of Djengiz Kahn…

More in my next upcoming blogpost.