Mongolia: Dinosaur bones and camel rides

From the urban bustle of Ulaanbaatar to the rural expanses of the Gobi Desert. We left from the northern part of Mongolia to the southern areas of the Gobi desert. Upon landing at the small airport in Dalanzadgad, Mongolia (where we were the only plane), we headed off for two hours on a dirt road to the Three Camel Lodge. The Three Camel Lodge is a collection of Mongolian round houses, called gers, or yurts, as the Russians call them. These are the traditional homes that Genghis Khan used when conquering the largest swath of land ever controlled by a single man.

From the Lodge we then did a side trip to the Flaming Cliffs where we will found some dinosaur bones that are 70 to 250 million years old. We also had some time to ride camels and take a small hike into the Gobi Desert Forest: a bunch of scrub brush a that stand out in this sea of grasslands and sand dunes.
Ellen, in her embrace of the planet, rolled down the sand dunes prior to our adventure on the Bhactrian Camels.

Factoid: Fossilized dinosaur bones stick to your wet tongue, rocks do not.