The route that we are following is called the “Southern Route”. I’ve heard all kinds of stories about it, from boring with a good road to dusty, truck infested hellhole. After our Gobi to Bayankhongor trailblazing, i thought to myself: “finally, some nice pavement, a good audiobook and coffee sipping time while driving”. Nope, nope […]
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Mongolia – Bayankhongor – Real Mongolia Experience
The excitement of asphalt didn’t last too long. Soon on a dry, smooth and, most importantly, quite pavement we discovered that our front suspension is making an awful amount of noise. When you are offroading everything in the car is rattling, shifting and showing its general disapproval of the bumpy ride. Now add to that […]
Mongolia – Gobi Yourself
Sitting around in the hostel, we tried to figure out what else to do in Mongolia. It’s not like there is a shortage of things to be done, just we never really prepared. We looked around other people’s blogs and found some GPS tracks for Gobi. Perfect, i guess we are going to Gobi Dessert. […]
Mongolia – Orkhon valley
Similarly named to an island we just spent destroying our sense of what is the right way to drive a car and mostly our livers for a week, if you haven’t read the Olkhon Island adventures with Korandovod…please do so now. It’s really for your entertainment…not mine. About a day drive from the city…its too […]
Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar
For some reason, I felt nervous. Even though this is our 20th country…and that probably means at least 19 border crossings, so there is nothing to be afraid, right? Maybe its genetic imprinting, from the time i was a little boy I’ve thought of borders as a horrendous experience and have been pleasantly surprised by […]
Mongolia – Overlanding Overview
This is it – this is what you have all been waiting for. Our 20th country! Mongolia, the land of dreams, no roads, steppes and sheep… a lot of sheep. This is just the overview of the things we did in Mongolia in the past couple of weeks. More detailed posts coming up. 1) For […]