Under the stars...

Finally, the opportunity came to me! After too many days of " learning the hard way" I have finally deserved some fee-time. As a friend just told me, we scandinavians always need a "good opportunity" to deserve time off and I happened to fall under that category I`m afraid. Well; on my journey I met this amazing people. Its a family with a some swedes and some mongolians. I got to know this guy, Joakim (works at Uppsala University) when David and me were on our way to Stockholm. We were going to meet another guy in Sthlm in connection to my visit to Mongolia, and this guy happened to sit next to us on the train and could tell that he has lived and worked in Mongolia and were going there this summer. As I didnt know anyone there, he asked if he could help. This guy and his family shows to be one of the nicest people I have ever met. First I went with them to a summer/health resort. Yes, I had thousand different images in my head on how a Mongolian summer resort would look like, and off course it was nothing as I had imagined. Among dry steppes, hundreds of kilometers and between lots of Ger`s, a paradise appeared! I could not believe my own eyes? Imagine kind off french riviera, not sea but a big lake, free spa, lots of space, bright sun, delivered food (!), oil that is healthy for the skin, no dirt and no tourists! And so cheap! Crazy feeling. Well, we stayed there two nights, had wine and enjoyed the spa feeling.

After one day in Ulaanbaatar, the same family asked me if I wanted to go to the Gobi Desert with them. And, off course, as my time in Mongolia was quite rough and I really needed to do something else this was not even a choice for me. Five days in the desert was amazing. 1200 km south east from Ulaanbaatar to a place called Sainshand which is the capital of the Dornogovi Province in Mongolia. Our goal on the tour was an energy centre, which is suppose to be one of the most magnetic and energetic places on earth, different rituals and buddhist practices were carried out. Well, we slept without our tents ("under åpen himmel") that night to inhale all energy possible. My first time to sleep out in nature in that way. It was amazing. So many stars! I now understand why the country is called "the blue sky". I woke up at 4 with a layer of sand in my face, and just came across my dream that was about rubbing in my face with body lotion the whole night because of the dry air :D We took off and the monk met us at the entrance. Just after 5 we could see the horizon covered of a bright, warm light that got shaped as the sun after only a few minutes. Sutras and yoga-like-practices were done to welcome the sun and to start the day constituting of various buddhist rituals. The moment were breath-taking.

Well, after miles on a bumpy road we found a Ger to sleep in that night. It was raining. I slept many hours that night, compared to the nights before. Finally some good sleep, even no dreams?! I always used to dream? Maybe the meditation made even my brain sleep that night. The next morning I was ready for new bumps, hours with traditional Mongolian music and endless landscape