ETAP-4 2024/08/14

「Looking for the lake disappeared from Gobi」
Back to Gobi just a little, loop day with short SS-2.
Run along paved road from outskirts of the town to start SS-1. Grasses are tall and this area is like dried marshlands. Get to the lake, just go along it. The lake becomes small, therefore lake shore becomes far. CP-1 is at the lake shore. Lake on the opposite side has gone. Away from the lake, run and run on plains and finish SS-1. Moving a paved road, SS-2 is from the town. Next heading north. Run across amazing mountain range, valley with lovely flowers, and come in sight of a small, beautiful lake, then a bigger one.
What a picturesque Etap! Complete the slightly hard navigation with caution, back to bivouac. It almost like getting back to reality from Utopia.