Mongolia is the latest stop for Hill, a travel writer updating a guide book on Central Asia. It summed up this place.
Servers gingerly pour tea as backpackers sit down to find a sardine salad.
Her host introduces himself. Autobahn sets down a plate of fried dough and pours the blond English teacher a bowl of mare's milk. Next day Autobahn appears as a guide at a trail ride for a group of Japanese tourists. He's a camp employee whose main contact with foreigners is with Japanese, who make up 80 per cent of visitors to Mongolia. In 1921, Mongolia became the world's second Communist country, set up with Soviet help.