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A Day in the Darhad Valley of Northern Mongolia

 

I wake up in the early morning to the sound of yaks grazing outside of my tent, a mixture of many grunts and chewing sounds. This still feels so surreal, I have made it to Mongolia! I unzip my sleeping bag and emerge from my tent to take in the beautiful dew covered view of our home for the next 7ish weeks at basecamp. It is beautiful.

Right outside of our basecamp is a marsh meadow dominated by birch and willow species surrounded by the backdrop of the Horidol-Sardag Mountain Range. Three planes rides, one overnight train ride and an impressively bumpy furgon (an off-road 4x4 van) ride, and this view alone is every bit worth the long journey to get here...

Noelle Foster, summer 2023 zoology graduate
December 7th, 2023

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