After a couple of days in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, I met some other travellers and we decided to do an 11 day trip together to the Gobi Desert and some of the National Parks in Mongolia. There were four of us in total, Heidi from Germany, Rainer from Austria and Miguel from Argentina. Instead of doing an organised tour, we decided to just hire a van and a driver and do it on our own. We organised this through one of the hostels and they provided an itinerary and some camping equipment and we left on the 15th of September. Our driver was called 'Ekhmer' and he spoke only a few words of english. He brought his 6 year old son, 'Otkar' on the trip too. He was really cute and lot of fun. He was
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