German Fort - Bihiramuld

We had an unnecessarily long boarder crossing, lasting three hours, just because of the round about way they wanted us to get our visa's. At least we can say we had an unusual picnic lunch, as we prepared and ate it in the boarder car park! Once across the boarder, the changes in landscape, road conditions and houses were immediate. This country feels more like what we were expecting of Africa - flat savannah, dry and dusty. We didn't travel far, but took a long time, 200m of tarmac punctuated with pot holes followed by 200m of sand. Children stood by the edge of the road putting rocks into holes for you in the hope of being paid (to be taken out later for the next passing truck). We spent the night camping inside an old run down German fort from WW1, with a tasty meal of fajitas cooked by James's cook group (chapatti's for the wraps, cooked freshly by the group).Read more