deserts in the world and it is really dry... not suitable for planting.’
Ernest whooped with surprise, ‘Let’s explore!’ Due to their curiosity, the three boys continued
digging, they could still hear music underground. They dug deeper and deeper until they reached
the mouth of a hole.
Ernest cheered, ‘Light! I saw a beam of light ...!’
‘Oh! The music was so near us. Great!’ James stammered breathlessly.
The three explorers peeked through the hole. There was a serious passage leading to a
mysterious hall - it was the Kingdom of Gobi. There lived the Gobians. The Gobians were singing
Mongolian Folk Songs. Some Gobians were playing music using conches-like objects while
some Gobians were beating the large drums. Their music brought harmony and love. Before this
discovery, ‘Gobi’ made people feel like a place without living things, music, love and lives. The
three explorers could see many greenery growing densely in the hall surrounded by a lake. There
were trees like eight-meter giants, green leaves hugging the colourful flowers in the bushes,
thousands of fruits as big as our heads, looking fresh and juicy. The books mentioned Gobi Desert
was once fertile and was a ‘Sacred place’ with a lake. This sacred place for the enlightened people
appeared in front of the explorers’ eyes.
The three explorers squeezed through the tiny ‘dog hole’ and went inside the magical hall.
They walked slowly and quietly towards the drummer and that Gobian was shocked when he saw
the three boys.
‘What the hack are you doing here? Our kingdom is fifty-thousand kilometers under Gobi! You
three boys have dug all the way down here? That’s impossible! No one had done this before! ‘ the
drummer questioned them.
All Gobians appreciated the boys’ perseverance to dig such a long way down. The Gobians
hugged the boys and invited them to dance together. Cooked mutton and creamy goat’s milk were
served. Lives in the Kingdom of Gobi were full of harmony, warmth, love and hope.
Lives in Gobi Desert was so different from lives in The Kingdom of Gobi. It seemed like two
different worlds. The explorers could never tell why there was The Kingdom of Gobi underground.
‘We have waited for this day for such a long time! To show our appreciation to the explorers,
we have decided to share half of our harvests each month as a reward to the humans living up in
Gobi Desert!’ the Gobian leader suggested.
‘That’s a good idea!’ James exclaimed.
The three explorers went back to the Gobi Desert and shared this piece of good news to every
man and woman in Gobi Desert.
