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 rom Dalanzadgad we traveled north to see the "Vultures Mouth," a gorge with almost permanent snow trapped in a narrow gorge in the mountains. It's a place of quite heavy snowfall in the winter and where no sun in the summer reaches down into the deep gorge. Therefore the snow accumulates in this sunless place with little melting.  Although explainable, it is still odd to see this patch of snow here in the Gobi. Apparently there is some concern since most of the snow has melted during the last few summers, leading experts to wonder about global warming.
From this natural gorge we traveled still farther north to the "Flaming Cliffs" where the first dinosaur eggs were discovered by Roy Chapman Andrews in the early 1920s. The correct name of the area is Bayanzag, but the western tourist industry calls it "Flaming Cliffs" because of the red mounds and cliffs where many dinosaur finds have occurred. It is a truly spectacular place of rich color and history.
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