I’m still soaked from top to toes, I go into the ger and get some lovely hot tea, biscuits and lucky me I got some chocolate of the medic team. They must’ve felt sorry for me when I told them how cold and wet I was, hahaha >:- )  I was sort of warmed up and picked my new horse, a palomino and I called him White Tips, because he had very cute white tipped ears. I see Lara about a km ahead and canter up to her and we continue to ride together, but we’re on the wrong side of the valley! Now we have to cross a couple deep narrow creeks, I try carefully at the first bend but White Tips is not happy about the idea of crossing this creek and tries to turn around but falls over! There am I half in the creek with my horse, stupid animal is to bloody stubborn, I get back on and manage to get White Tips through the creek, I’m wet now anyway so a little bit more water, who cares?! Finally we’re on the right side and there we catch up with Georgie again, along the way we’re having lots of fun and the horses travel all well together. We come past a young boy who is mustering the families horses back to their ger and open valley’s  surrounded by hills. The weather is still not nice, it’s drizzling but there is a cool wind now and makes the riding conditions chilly. We’re 8 km’s away from urtuu 4 and I decide to go around the hill instead of over it, Lara and Georgie decide to go over it, and so we separate our ways. White Tips is happy and still fresh so we canter off to the next station, the last 500meter I get back to a walk a make sure White Tips has something to drink out of a puddle and eats some grass. When we get in camp his heart rate is 80bpm, I walk him around and give him a nibble of grass and 5 minutes later I present him again, 62bpm and everything else is good to, so I can pick a new horse and get something to drink and eat. There are 2 different families offering their horses at this station, both groups of horses look amazing, all in good condition with straight legs and no one has any rubs. Again I ask them for a fast and good horse, after some thinking one of the men shows me a dark buckskin, the horse looks great and is a good size so I pick him. While I quickly warm up and get something to eat, they saddle my new horse for me and take it for a little ride to make sure he is safe for me to continue with.  Partially I’m warmed up and fit to go again, I get on my new mount and before I know I’m off! There’s no stopping this horse, he’s ready to eat some km’s! Over the jeeptrack I follow my route with help of my GPS, but every puddle I canter past my new horse “Dj” had to shy at them which made it a very interesting ride for the first 5km’s, after that he was over his bullshit and just cantered with on in a great pace. I ride through amazing long and forever going valleys with beautiful flowers and herds of goat and sheep everywhere, in the distance I can see a few cream colours foxes playing and a bit later a big Golden eagle who just caught a gerbil for dinner. Gerbils are rodents that live in huge parts of Mongolia. They live underground and make lots of little tunnels everywhere, this makes it sometimes really hard to walk with your horse over the ground as they tend to sink away in the collapsed tunnels of the gerbils.