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Carrying out backpacks, showing our thumbs
We wait near a road; no trees and no cars
After getting on a car of a Kazakh family
We reach Olgii, Mongolia’s western city
We don’t know Mongolian, no one speaks English
But in Bayan Olgii, we communicate in Turkish
We found a river and pitched up our tent
There is nothing to do, but 3 days we spent
After taking shower in the bathhouse of Olgii,
Towards Tolbo Lake, started to hitchhike lately
The lake is clean, cool and nice
There are only horses, gulls and us
No one passing by, we start feeling dull
Mongolian Rally cars are completely full
We reached Khovd city in the late evenin’
There we camped with a Chilean and a Finn
Pastures everywhere, freely feeding animals
The sheep, goats, camels, cows and horses
No fence, no tree, no farms; nothing
What would Alan Savory think?
Under the sun, all day just hitchhiking
We get Asian eyes because of the shining
Roads are bumpy, no asphalt at all
Please take us; we have tobacco to roll
We camp anywhere, everywhere is good
Rivers are clean, but meat is the only food
In Mongolia it’s hard to be vegetarian
Can’t imagine being a vegan
Our best friends become truck drivers
We like to join them for long distances
баярлалаа is a word we learned primarily
It means thank you, if you can say it correctly
There are stones on the road, on and on
And there are blue clothes put upon
When we see them people say “Shaman”
But they can be Buddhists’, not only Shaman
Mongolians drink alcohol a lot
And they always share it in a pot
Vodka is considered a sacred drink
Also there is airag, made of horse milk
Just by one car we go from Altai to Ulyastai
Valley is green and mountains are high
It would be nice to camp near the river
But the family invites us for the dinner
It is warm in the day but it gets colder at night
In Ulyastai it snows because of the height
We cannot get out, in the city we stuck
No one knows English, nobody to talk
Genghis Khan is important, almost holy
He has pictures everywhere, also on the money
On the wall of our room, he looks at us
Then we take a photo, where he looks nice
Yoko saves us from Ulyastai city
She is so cute, also lived in Turkey
We pass the mountains covered by snow
Then it is warm again, because it is low
We get tired and camp so soon
Milky Way is shining, also the moon
Above us, floating white clouds
Around us, the sheep and the goats
There is a lake we camped, called Teerkin Tsagan Nuur
Ger camps, horses and tourist coming by a tour
There is a volcano just next to it
The view worth climbing up on it
The family takes us is just super
Three kids, father, and the mother
English is perfect they are speaking
Then they take us to a hot spring
Hot water is heating our body
The Ger we stay is warm and cozy
In the forest we gather some mushrooms
But we don’t know if they are poisonous
We hitchhike on Bilge Kağan highway
To visit Orkhon Inscriptions, on our way
We pitch our tent and wait for the morning
But the museum is really disappointing
In 20 days we travelled for thousands of miles
After we just walk on mountains and on grass
We arrived Ulan Bator where all road leads
Welcome to the huge metropolis
Out of the city children ride horses
They drink yak milk and run on pastures
But in modern, civilized Ulan Bator city
There are crowded streets and it is noisy
Thereby ends our trip in Mongolia
And we hit the road towards Siberia
Seeds on Wheels say more adventure
They don’t know anything about the future
