On the road from Dalanzadgad to Khanbogd

Firsts, this week: • Drinking camel milk • Eating dried camel curds • Drinking salted tea • Hearing the horse-head fiddle accompany the Mongolian long song • Driving across the Gobi desert, from Dalanzadgad to Khandbogd Australians could be forgiven for thinking that the Gobi looks like a slightly less red version of the outback. My intrepid driver, Tsevenbaatar, who has a rather eclectic taste in pop music.  I should correct that: He was not my driver; I was his passenger. Camels grazing in the Gobi. ..