We arrive to a small river, which cars cross without problems...





Since there is a bridge a few meters, I prefere not to get my feet wet...





11/8/2014

Bayankhongor



We can't say it's a beautiful city

Today the road is easy, on the other hand it is pretty cold ...



And we must also try to avoid these cute little creatures, who cross the road every few meters



We meet for the first time a foreign rider in Mongolia: his name is Levent, a Turkish around the world without a very precise destination





Did I wrote this guys are curious too?



Once in Kharkhorin we rent a ger in a camp set up for tourists (the city is one of the country's most turistic and ger camps are almost everywhere)

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Erdene Zuu monastery

Also "phallic rock" is here

13/8/2014



Mongol Els

























Entering Ulaanbaatar: there's traffic, but I don't think it's so different from other asian cities I visited

We arrive at Oasis Guesthouse





There are a few guests: the Swiss who helped us in Charyn Canyon, Ken and Chip, two americans round the world, who are travelling with Mark, a british going home, from Australia, Beth and Shalom, she from California, he from Israel, round the world, some other Swiss in 4WD, some Australians going to Vladivostok and Lukas, who is building his Ktm in Ulaanbaatar



Austrian food in mongolian capital...



My bike has run bad all day, it probably has a very dirty air filter but I carefully deceided not to touch it. The goal was to reach Ulaanbaatar and we made it. The next day I have to ship it, I'm not worried. At one point, now "safe", at the Oasis, I realize that the bike does not start anymore: aaaahhh!
The next day I have to ride a few km to reach the dispatcher: not now, no!
With the help of Ken, we decide that it's probably the spark plug, then, even though it is already getting dark, we put ourselves at work and change it: nothing.
Mark joins us, we dismantle the filter, emptied the carburetor, it's 22.00 and the bike is not starting. At one point, Ken opens the tank, looks inside, and looks at me, "try to switch on reserve?" .... Bruuum
Okay: laughter for everyone and we can go to drink and spend a pleasant evening with new friends
(For the record: I had not thought about the gas because I had refilled not so many kms before, almost certainly the problem is just the dirty filter and fuel consumption had grown)

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With Sukhe, who will organize the shipping



It's going to stay here for a while





In good company





Then we walk back at the Oasis visiting some of the city: you can't say it is nice...



























15/8/2014

After another nice evening at the Oasis, on the morning of the 15th, Ken, Chip and Mark leave to continue their trip: we'll meet two of them a few weeks later:-)











And then it's time to leave also for us

WOW, a picture or two from this trip of mine, will be on the Izi Meeting calendar!

The motorcycle journey ends here, but the holiday is not yet done:
in evaluating the available flights from Ulaanbaatar to Milan we noticed that most of them go through Moscow or Beijing.
The Moscow stops was almost always very long, and we had to get a Russian double entry visa to go out of the airport.
When we discovered that, coming from a different country (Mongolia in our case) to China into Terminal 3 of Beijing and departing on a direct flight to another country (Italy) from the same terminal, it was possible for Italians to enter China without a visa and stay for 72 hours in the Beijing region, the decision was easy.

So 3 nights / 2 full days in Beijing.

Only a few photos, since no bike involved































And this time, the holiday is really over...

thx for bringing us along