We had very inauspicious start to our visit to Mongolia. After alighting from the train, we were met with the usual touts for hostels, and because we had to find an ATM, chose to jump in a taxi instead. A taxi driver came running toward us, and after assuring us that his was indeed a metered taxi, packed our bags into the back of his vehicle. First he drove us to a money exchange, even though we had specifically said ATM, and then we drove around, and around the city looking for an ATM that accepted Mastercard. As we were driving and stopping, the meter seemed to be going up astromonomically.....at one point it had reached 30, 000T, which is roughly $30 US. Maybe we were reading it incorrectly, and there was an extra zero? We
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