The razor-sharp blade of mechanical grass cutter was maybe 10 cm from Marek’s nose. The handle was laying on the knees of a boy sitting in the front of the car. In the back were we plus two other persons. Somehow also our backpacks fit in there. The pain of the squeezed limbs was not big but continous.
It seems like we cannot get enough of nature and in that aspect Mongolia was a paradise. In fact, in that country, it’s pretty hard to escape from nature since even cities (except for the capital) seem more like small spacious towns. The rest is a vast steppe full of beautiful nothing and occasional wonders. We managed to get to one of them, called by the locals “younger sister of Baikal” – lake Khövsgöl. This second second-most voluminous freshwater lake in Asia is located 1,645 metres above sea level, almost 1,200 metres higher than Baikal.
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After a long day, hitchhiking from Ulan-Ude in Russia to Mongolia, we walked on a sandy road towards our destination. A group of cows were grazing freely near us and their curious eyes followed our steps. The whole territory was an amazing mix of islands of forests on a wide green steppe – vast dream land in the sunset.
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Connection with nature and its serenity is what we always look for on our road, to put it in the most simple way – we feel that being among it, makes us better people. Ergaki is one of the first places we marked on our travel map, long time ago. Back then it seemed to us like a dream land, a few photos and videos we could find online amazed us.
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