Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
two of the blogs are out of sync (possibly) so pls forgive me if they seem somewhat garbled and work it out as best u can!
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
after a 2 hour delay we were on the road again and finally made it to UB last night. We r now in a rather nice and cheap hotel :)
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
...party to try and get new tyres before dark, however while trying to cross a river I flooded suki's engine and it was only a very
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
...pumping it up to speed the process up. The next day the puncture played up again in the evening so Hugo and I formed an advance
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
...to UB with high hopes...we had been driving for 15 mins when the tyre went flat again! Suki, Toby and I went for a final tyre run
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
...helpful local saved us from another night of camping. The next morning the flat tyre had been fixed and we set off for the last leg
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
first they ran over the wheel to get it off the rim, then when they had patched up the puncture, they lit the edge of the tyre while
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
we then had a stroke of luck when some Mongolian truckers took pity on us and fixed our puncture.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
and in the process blew the main fuse when we wired it wrong. We were only saved by passing Colombians who botched it together
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
after quite a long time trying to fix it we decided to carry on only to find tiffs battery flat. We then messed up the jump start
