Mongolia - Fuel Along Northern Route...???
 

Hello:

We would like to enter Mongolia at Tsagaannuur in the west and take the following route...

Tsagaannuur - Ulaangom - Zel - Baruunturuun - Zun - Altay - Khalban - Sharga - Moron - Tsengel - Selenge - Khutag - Bulgan - Mandal - Ulaanbaatar

The big question... Will there be fuel along the way; and, if yes, can you let me know where the most 'reliable' fuel locations are.

I have the Touratech 41 Liter after market tank. However, unfortunatley, my riding partner only has the standard 20 Liter tank on his 1200GS (we do carry an extra 6 liters of fule in bottles).

Thank you in advance for the help.

Michael

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Fuel
 

Unless it's a secret please can you tell us too, please?

Hi Michael: Reliable is a not a great term for most services in rural Mongolia, but that said 72 liters between you will be more than enough for any distances between fill-ups in Mongolia. Just make sure you top up as often as possible (at least in the provincial (Aimag) capitals), because although every little town has a fuel station, they sometimes run dry a few days before the next petrol tanker comes through. As long as you are staying on the major tracks across Mongolia you will rarely go more than 100 km without a chance to buy fuel, and almost never more than 150 km. I have a 43 L tank and never had to use more than about 20 L of it before finding fuel.

In the list of towns you have all of them should have at least a basic fuel station, and the larger ones (Ulaangom, Altai, Moron, etc.) will have fairly reliable fuel supplies.

Scott

oh - you can ask any horse man where the closest fuel station is... he will tell you. Just make sure you ask for the motorbike directions not the horse route!

Just been through on pretty much that route in the past week or two. Utterly spectacular, especially the unintended diversion from Baranturun down to Jargalant (everywhere in mongolia is called jargalant) and over the hills to altanbulag - utterly amazing! See my blog....

Petrol no problem in baranturun (though we had to wait an hour for the dude with the keys to turn up), ulanngom, etc.

Moron is pretty well equipped with fuel, hotels, internet cafes, supermarkets.

Really it's a doddle food, water, petrol wise, much easier than I thought it would be. Never went more than 150 miles without finding petrol, even when getting lost.

Some of the tracks are brilliant, but it's very easy to see how incredibly hard it would be if it rained. Everything would turn to mud and there are lots of river crossings that are easy when fairly dry but could be much harder in the rain. Don't want to put you off, it was the best ride of my life, but we got lucky with weather. Be prepared!

Al

:oops2: missed that one - sorry
pls p.m as cannot attach an excel file here

10 litre tank is all you need
 

fuel seems to be a doddle in Mongolia these days. Recently did a route from UB - Kharkhorin - Tsetserleg - Tosontsengel- Uliastay, - Altai - Hovd - Olgiy - Tsagaannuur Border and did it solely on my tiny 10 litre tank.

I carried a container with 3 litres reserve, but never got round to using it.

So 41 litres / 26 litres is pretty much overkill. I would not bother filling up more than 20 liters as you definately dont need more and the extra weight will slow you down.

I bought the same road atlas maximondo mentioned at the post office. Decent detail including locations of petrol, and information was surprisingly reliable. I relied on it for locatiobs of fuel and was not let down. when i get home, i may be able to scan some pages for people coming innfrom the west, but for those entering from the north and stopping in UB i recommend you buy one at the post office

Could you scan and post the front cover of the Mongolian Atlas that you mentioned. :mchappy:

JB

Its a local/mongolian edition, post office UB seems to be the only place (?) to get it, its in the glass boxes in the vistors centre part (where they sell postcards and all) and it says: Road Map (in english) on it. Has a spiral. Got one published 2009. Its a translation of original one in mongolian.

Unfortunately mine is now floating in Mongolian Nature somewhere near a particularly nasty river crossing near Olgii .
(it was..'or drop the bike in the river and grab the atlas' or vv)

Yea,some scans from west border could be lovely!! Thanks :mchappy::mchappy:

Google map Mongolia fuel stations
 

Hi Michael

See this Google map with over 100 gas stations in Mongolia country side precisely marked.
Zoom in on satellite mode to see the exact station location.
You can download the map as KML to export to your navigation system.

Dan

great stuff .cheers!! bier

Also in OSM you find a lot of gas stations.

From Olgii to Ulaangom is about 300km and there is a gas station in between, but with 80.

And from Ulaangom to Moron and further you find gas stations in every village