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Trying to get some horses we could borrow for 4 days
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Johan Kruseman
Updated on 15 August 2024
Updated on 15 August 2024
After this full day, the five of us were eager to get back on an animal. Since there were eight lakes at a considerable distance, we chose horses because if we had chosen yaks, we would probably still be on the way. The small concentration of gers where horses could be rented turned out to be fully controlled by the agencies. At first, the price for a horse was 10,000 tughriks per day, but when someone came to help with translation, the price became 15,000, and when he heard that we had come without an agency, it was more or less forbidden or at least 20,000 per day. We would also have to pay for two guides and two packhorses for our group of five. After discussing the plans for three-quarters of an hour and negotiating the price back down to 15,000 per horse, 1 guide, and 1 packhorse, the answer to my question about the departure time the next day was that he didn’t have any guides available. Oh my god. The next ger had guides, horses, and hadn’t had much to do with agencies yet. 15,000 was translated to 18,000 by a helpful translator, but since I could count fifteen fingers very well in Mongolian, we left it at that.
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Traveled route: Ulaanbaatar, Kharkhorin, Hatgal, Khorgo, Tstetserleg, Red Waterfall, Zamiin-Uud
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