Day 5 to:Sonid Yougi, 120km, 561km to date, 395m up, end elev 1138m

Day 3 of 6 in a row.  A hard day.  Fairly strong wind, always right on the nose.  The bad news is that we will have  a similar day tomorrow.  My goal for the remainder of the day is to survive past dinner before I fall asleep.

The countryside is now very flat brown “prairie”.  Seems to be all range land, mostly sheep with some cattle and some horses.  We rode the full 120km almost totally with nothing manmade in sight.  In fact there were no “corner stores” or “coke stops” the full day.

I was delayed a couple minutes whilst a 200-300 sheep flock crossed the road:

Mike and Frieder having a nap at the lunch stop:

We had another fantastic dinner tonight, although we had to walk 5 blocks in a sandstorm to get there.  There were a group from a dance school having a dinner in the restaurant, after many many pictures (grey/white hair seems to be a real novelty…), we had a wonderful performance, both of a couple doing Chinese very fancy ballroom dancing, then a singer - excellent!