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Mongolia🇲🇳Trying to control the most difficult horse

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The guide was extremely cautious. The German guy wasn’t allowed to ride freely and was led on a leash by the guide (which led to a small explosion at the end of the second day, more on that later, and I promise to wrap up the current cliffhangers before opening new ones). I turned out to have the most difficult horse and had to keep the reins super tight, which was checked every minute by the suspicious guide. And halfway through the day, we had to walk for twenty minutes because apparently, many tourists were thrown off their horses or the horses would go into an uncontrollable gallop on that stretch.

Traveled route: Ulaanbaatar, Kharkhorin, Hatgal, Khorgo, Tstetserleg, Red Waterfall, Zamiin-Uud
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After fifteen minutes, the German guy claimed he couldn’t walk any further because his knee couldn’t handle that kind of distance, even though I distinctly remembered him asking me the day before if he could join me for a two-day hike in the mountain

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