On the Trail of Genghis Khan by Tim Cope

Author:Tim Cope
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

From Murat’s camp, there lay just 150 km to Kulsary. One day south of Murat’s we met with his father, Guanshbai, and decided to sell him our little camel, Harvette. From there, the land became flatter, the pasture—as Murat had forewarned—grew thin and the ground metamorphosed into white clay pans with nothing but salt bush. The temperature climbed over 50°C, and the water became brackish—but still fresh enough to drink. There were times when we were so exhausted by the struggle to keep cool during the day that we’d saddle up the horses at night but then fall asleep until after midnight; when we finally woke, we gave up and unsaddled. It didn’t really matter, though, for the end of my journey with my Australian friends was drawing near, and we had experienced the essence of steppe life that we had come for.

On July 27 we packed up for our last day of riding along the Zhem. I was thinking happily that my horses were about to be trucked back to paradise for a month of grazing. For the next month I could also look forward to some time away from the punishing routine of night riding, and come the cool of September, when I planned to return, my horses would be fat and rested. Never again, I thought, would I have to deal with the heat of the Kazakh summer.

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