so, i've enlisted the help of my translator, uchka. so, uchka, i'm ready to get my shop on. are outside of the outdoor market, yeah, and then you can find everything in here. everything? yes. with hundreds of stalls, the narantuul market is the size of nine football pitches. well, i've got my list. maybe i'll see you back here in about... half an hour? let's say an hour. 0k. yeah. good. all right? yeah. i'm ready. let's go. go. i have three items on my list. a traditional mongolian outfit called a deel, riding boots, and gifts for the family i'm staying with. and i'm sticking to a budget of 400,000 tugrik, which is about £90. i'm looking for boots for horses, riding. she said, "this way." horse? horse. yes! 350,000. that's pretty much nearly all my budget. i'm faced with a choice — stay and haggle... . .01’ run away. the haggling thing for me, just it's the awkwardness when they're like, "no, no," and i'm like, "please, lower." and in the end ijust give in and say, "do you know what? i'll pay the full price." i'vejust got to toughen up, really. speaks mongolian 200. 200? tha

i'll tell you what, uchka.r the seemingly endless grassy plains of the steppe... ..accompanied by my translator, uchka. i already feel like i'm getting, like, a slight taste of nomadic life, just mainly because we are surrounded by nothing but wilderness. it's a world away from my home city, london. spread over 1.5 million square kilometres live just one million nomads... ..raising livestock and moving their camps from season to season. i've heard living in the steppes can be pretty tough, so this is going to be a true, true test of my resilience. but i'm looking forward to finding out if i've got what it takes. my name's lucy hedges and, for the next 48 hours,

ulaanbaatar, for the seemingly endless grassy plains of the steppe... ..accompanied by my translator, uchka. i already feel like i'm getting, like, a slight taste of nomadic life, just mainly because we are surrounded by nothing but wilderness. it's a world away from my home city, london. spread over 1.5 million square kilometres live just one million nomads... ..raising livestock and moving their camps from season to season. i've heard living in the steppes can be pretty tough, so this is going to be a true, true test of my resilience. but i'm looking forward to finding out if i've got what it takes. my name's lucy hedges and, for the next 48 hours, i'm leaving my home comforts behind to experience for myself the wonders... ..and hardships of this extraordinary way of life. i'll set up camp in a race against the elements... thunder rolls you hear that? thunder is coming. ..track a herd across the mighty steppe... oh, and this saddle. chafing a little bit! ..and discover the bond between mongolians and their horses starts at a very early age. i can see they're all kids, they're all pretty s