Jeti Orghuz Valley

We slept in, like until after 9:00! It was a VERY cold night. Sure glad to have that subzero sleeping bag! We all welcomed the warm sun and rising temps. Breakfast as usual was followed by a grand hike up into a neighboring valley and to a really splendid waterfall. Like all the British and Aussie adjectives I'm using?

I split off from the group and visited a family setting up their summer yurts. We chatted and I was invited to have tea. Didn't understand a word we each said. It was fun using sign language and sharing photos. We laughed a lot. So sweet and welcoming.

I found a huge open meadow on the way back and had lunch with a cow and a horse who seemed to be friends. They grazed together only feet apart for quite some time. The horse was interested in my apple. The cow not so much. In the end the horse won out and got half of the fruit!

Back in camp I set up a make shift pastry kitchen and made snicker/banana cream and strawberry/chocolate tarts-my gift to the group to follow our lamb BBQ tonight!

Erkin arranged for a group of fellows to BBQ a whole lamb in camp. They showed up in the late afternoon and put up their spit; started the fire. They used wood and then coal. It was a very hot fire. Then came the marinated meat and the turning began. The banquet lasted until none of us could move!

We had a grand bonfire. John and Ollie, we left you a huge tree by the campfire. Enjoy burning the last half!