Tugrisin Shiree and Hongoryn Els Sand Dunes
Tugrisin Shiree is a white escarpment that is the site of the famous "Fighting Dinosaurs." A Polish expedition explored this area in the late 1960's and found Protoceratops and Velociraptor locked in combat. As we walked through the rocks, I hunkered down and started picking away at an indentation in the ground. Sure enough, the outline of a LARGE Dinosaur Bone started to appear. There are massives amount of discoveries to still be made in the Gobi. Without proper tools or permits, I had to leave my Dinosaur bone there, still in the ground waiting to be excavated.
The guide laid out a picnic lunch with cucumbers, canned vegetables and PICKLES!
After the "pickles", another long drive (nothing is close by in the Gobi) to the "Singing Dunes" (Hongoryn Els is Mongolian for "Singing Dunes" ) . The Gobi is covered with a sparse layer of scrub vegetation but suddenly there was a landscape of dunes. Hongoryn Els is the largest area of dunes with some reaching heights of 2,400 feet. We had a good time s...l...o...w...l...y slogging up, and runing down.
Back to our Ger Camp for one last night in the Gobi...
