Complete Silence
Gobi Desert
Mongolia
July 2006
We drive in to the dunes of the Gobi Desert just before sunset. Our driver stops the car and suggests that we walk over to the dune drifts and take a seat. He stays behind to smoke a cigarette.
So we walk 1000 feet and climb up the dunes and just sit down on the hot sand as watch the sun begin to slip down below the dunes.
It's just the two of us, sitting there. Suddenly I realized that we are sitting in complete silence. There are no cars, no insects, no birds, no talking, no buzzing of electricity, no trees swaying in the breeze, nothing making noise. There is absolutely no sound around us. We are in complete slience, a moment I have never experienced before.
