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Wednesday 22nd September Oh my God we have never been so cold, ice on our blankets and rumours of it being -12C! Several people have hypothermia. However we changed the spark plugs yesterday, yes us all by ourselves! And the car was firing on all cylinders. We queued in number order at the border and queued and queued and it took 7 hours ugh! So we eventually got all the way through at 3.30pm and then had 700km to drive.It was very beautiful, such a contrast to Mongolia driving through woods and beside an amazing river with people fishing. This was completely mad. We said to each other we can do this if we share the driving and so we did but arrived exhausted at 2.30am- to be told that the hotel hadn’t allocated rooms. There was a lot of hand waving and frustration and we got on a minibus to take us to another hotel in the complex. In to bed at 3am after finally getting to scrub some of the filth off, even though we had dreamed of long hot soaks in delicious baths… not in these prison cells!