slope and the views from the top were just amazing, you could just see endless rolling countryside for as far as your eye could see and yeap we have the photos to prove it! At the top was a sacred point, I can’t remember the name for it but it is where people go and pray and place stones, make wishes and give offerings to the heavens, basically you pick up 3 stones and throw one onto the mound walk round clockwise then make your wish, you do this 3 times hence the 3 stones, people also place things there which are special to them for instant there was a horses skull and this would indicate that the animal was very loved and by placing its skull there it would send the spirit up to the heavens, there are also coloured flags, blue symbolises the heavens, it was a very spiritual place and we both felt very honoured to have been there.

Once we got back from our walk we found out that there was

going to be a concert held by some famous Mongolian musicians (Armelle I don’t know if they were the ones that played at the Bridgwater hall) which included Mongolian Throat singing, and a contortionist they were due to play outdoor at half nine, due to the location, everybody all being in extremely good spirits and an endless supply of nice cold Mongolian beer we were very much looking forward to our evening entertainment.

The concert was just amazing, it brought a tear to my eye hearing the beautiful music with the sunsetting behind them. Rob has recorded the whole thing on his iriver so Russ and Gary expect some samples material as soon as we can. After the haunting sounds of the performers we made our way over to the bar after soaking up a little more of the Mongolian steepe atmosphere. A couple of the musicians came over to the bar and played a bit more for us all to which we were most