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Mongolia🇲🇳How yoghurt can feel like heaven

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Johan Kruseman


After many instant noodles with applesauce (serving as breakfast, lunch, and dinner), sardines in tomato sauce, and the sheep skull with innards, you should have heard our stomachs when the next day we saw the other ger residents enjoying fresh yogurt with real pieces of apple and raspberry. Hmmm, so there was actually a really good side to organized tours. No matter how much we tried to suppress our begging stomachs in our facial expressions, it didn’t take much empathy from the others to understand that they couldn’t really avoid giving us the remaining leftovers. For a brief moment, we were in heaven.

Traveled route: Ulaanbaatar, Kharkhorin, Hatgal, Khorgo, Tstetserleg, Red Waterfall, Zamiin-Uud
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A bruised rib after some more mandatory wrestling

That same afternoon, we reached our final destination: the largest of the eight mountain lakes. We had to swim in it. Around noon, we returned to the family where we had slept, and it quickly became clear that we couldn’t move on until we had wrestle

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