With a band of 8, Greg, Pippa, Robert, Carla, Anna, Pete, Lucia and myself we started out on our 8 day hike around Mongolia. The trek was to take us west as far as the city of Karkhorin and then back east to Ulaan Baatar and up to a park outside of the city. We had 2 drivers (Sugra and Togo), 2 guides (Tosnoo and Kishgee), and a heap of food and drink so we all bailed into the same trusty Russian Jeeps we'd used in Baikal and took to the road. DAY 1 Well we had something of an unfortunate start to proceedings when we got 3 punctures in the first few hours. The driver had gotten 4 new tires the day before and they were leaking. We had to hang around for hours waiting
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