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We arrive to a small river, which cars cross without problems... https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t...2/DSCN1298.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h...2/DSCN1299.JPG Since there is a bridge a few meters, I prefere not to get my feet wet... https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-O...2/DSCN1305.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...2/DSCN1308.JPG 11/8/2014 Bayankhongor https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...2/DSCN1310.JPG We can't say it's a beautiful city https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H...2/DSCN1314.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-C...2/DSCN1320.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...2/DSCN1323.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5...2/DSCN1326.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f...2/DSCF4196.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u...2/DSCF4198.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-q...2/DSCF4199.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4...2/DSCF4200.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-B...2/DSCF4201.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-o...2/DSCN1329.JPG |
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We arrive at Oasis Guesthouse https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-k...2/DSCN1408.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...2/DSCN1411.JPG 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 https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e...2/DSCN1413.JPG Austrian food in mongolian capital... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...2013.34.50.jpg 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) 14/8/2014 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u...2/DSCF1057.JPG With Sukhe, who will organize the shipping https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-s...2/DSCN1419.JPG It's going to stay here for a while https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D...2/DSCN1426.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7...2/DSCN1435.JPG In good company https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-K...2/DSCN1445.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...2/DSCN1452.JPG Then we walk back at the Oasis visiting some of the city: you can't say it is nice... https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M...2/DSCN1454.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...2/DSCN1456.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-E...2/DSCN1458.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-f...2/DSCN1472.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i...2/DSCN1484.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-R...2/DSCN1489.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c...2/DSCN1497.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-W...2/DSCN1504.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-s...2/DSCN1508.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-t...2/DSCN1510.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-o...2/DSCN1511.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-K...2/DSCN1512.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-K...2/DSCN1515.JPG 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:-) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w...2/DSCN1524.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6...2/DSCN1527.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...2/DSCN1528.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Y...2/DSCN1529.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2/DSCN1533.JPG And then it's time to leave also for us https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--...2/DSCN1537.JPG |
WOW, a picture or two from this trip of mine, will be on the Izi Meeting calendar!
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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 https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-e...2/DSC_0197.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3...2/DSC_0204.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H...2/DSC_0308.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-r...2/DSC_0531.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2...2/DSC_0556.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2/DSC_0584.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-F...2/DSCF4492.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-4...2/DSC_0673.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k...2/DSC_0717.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e...2/DSC_0722.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P...2/DSC_0731.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-y...2/DSC_0763.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V...2/DSC_0770.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-o...2/DSC_0771.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P...2/DSC_0783.JPG And this time, the holiday is really over... |
thx for bringing us along
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