square.
Our destination was the first 5-star
hotel ever built in Mongolia located
at the stunning Terelj National Park,
via the biggest statue of a horse in the
world, with of course, Chinngis Khan
sitting astride. In fact, the statue was
so big you needed to take an elevator
to the head of the horse where one can
walk out to marvel the view across the
landscape where legend has it that Gh-
inngis, (as he is locally known), found
his golden sword, a sword that guar-
anteed battle success, it must have
worked as he built up the largest em-
pire the world has ever known!
Our first shakedown ride on the dirt
was via the wonderfully remote Kerlin
River Valley to Mongoramit, in the far
east of Mongolia, not far from the Chi-
nese border.
The recent rains had indeed swol-
len the rivers and it wasn’t long before
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