If you like getting well off the beaten track, Mongolia is awesome, you can drive in just about any direction and there's a lot to discover once you're off the main routes across the country. Central Zavkhan, Dornod and the southern parts of the Gobi aimags (regions) were my favourite.
Baikal is great, but in summer the southern part has quite a lot of tourists, and the northern parts are not very easy to access (until it freezes in late February ). Neighbouring Buryatia is great, especially the Barguzin Valley area, and the road from Ulan Ude to Romanovka.
The route to Magadan is one long wilderness once you leave Chita, with only a few small towns along the route. It's seriously beautiful once you cross the passes east of Khandyga.
If you aim for Vladivostok then the coastal areas to the north (between Nakhodka and Plastun roughly) are stunning and very infrequently visited.
If you check the Mongolia sections of my website you'll see pictures and accounts of just about every part of the country, and also neighbouring parts of Russia (though I haven't added the trips to Magadan and back yet).
Enjoy the awesome wilderness
EO
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EurasiaOverland a memoir of one quarter of a million kilometres by road through all of the Former USSR, Western and Southern Asia.
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