After a good night's sleep and some breakfast, our guide Ot shouted to us to come out.
We went out and he showed the eagle to us from much closer..



Notice the hat on his head, he was also tied from his feet to the pole. We just got to wiggle him little bit up and down, also feeling the mighty grip he has in his claws.. Really an inspiring bird.

So after this we got new horses, and went straight away riding. We went through the woods and over the river to this wooden house where some of Ot's friends lived.
We were invited inside, and once seated there, Ot takes three beers from his pockets and hands them to us.. He also took a bottle of vodka from his pocket.. This was very confusing because it was early morning.. Well, we drank the beers and took a shot of vodka, I didn't agree to take more than one shot because the horse might react badly to alcohol.. The housekeepers then offered us this bread with goat cheese and some sausage and also milk tea. This bread tasted really sour and dry, and Pete was the only one to manage to eat a whole piece of it.. Of course I didn't want to be impolite so I stached the rest of the bread in my pocket.. The tea on the other hand was really good.

After eating (and drinking) we went back to riding. We went to these really vast plains and there the feeling of Lonely rider really caught me..


And also that song.. Horse with no name. It got really some new meanings.
I wouldn't want to be left alone in there..


But luckily we were three of us and Ot with his friend who took care of us. After this, plains of nothingness experience, we went back to our camp to eat.
After eating we fell asleep. When we woke, the same "Let's go" echoed from outside, Ot was ready to go again, and so were we.

We went back to this house, only this time to change guides, Ot stayed there and this other fellow came to guide us. He took us the same way we came yesterday, and that kind of pissed us off..
We went back to the house and our guide pointed us in the direction of the river. We assumed that Ot would come little after us so we went on ahead. We derived little bit from the path and went to take a break just at the side of the river. At some point, Ot raced his horse following the path and we saw a glimpse of him. We didn't go after him, instead we went back to the house and informed the local host that we lost Ot and we'll head back to the camp.

So there we were in the middle of the Mongolian forest riding our horses all alone.. That was just plain great!


Well.. Just before we reached our camp, Ot came from the opposite direction, smiling..
He found us! Or maybe we found him =)
Then we got some more to eat and that was what I'd call a day..