I don’t think we have seen a single fence in Mongolia. All the animals are free to roam as they wish. This morning there were cows drinking from a pothole in the middle of a main road.
The first day we mainly saw horses, but there have been lots of sheep, goats, cows and yaks, and one family of pigs today. I think it is just for the tourists ... but there have also been some camels, including few herds (?) out in the open.
In case you were wondering why there were so many horses:
Sometime the sheep like to sleep in the curve of a track so you just have to go around, but you always have to be careful - it seems the grass is greener on the other side of the road and none of them have much road sense. Its ok on the dirt tracks because you can easily go around, but on the main roads you often have to slow down just in case that cow jumps out. It was worse on the KTM because that was louder and seemed to spook them a bit more. Then you have to watch the mirrors as sometimes the locals don't care and keep going at full speed.
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