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Photo by Alessio Corradini, on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, of two locals

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Photo by Alessio Corradini,
on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia,
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Planning a solo trip TSH to Mongolia 2015

I am in detailed planning for a solo trip next may to Mongolia. Plan is to take the Trans Siberian Highway from Pskov all the way to Ulan-Ude and then down to Mongolia itself

I am guessing that most of the way is Tarmac but what about the road to UB?

Also planning on wild camping as much as possible or tarping behind lorry stops. Yep nuts

Return is via Ufa down to Tbilisi and across Turkey and into Europe.

I have no interest in cities. I do love looking at mountains and forests. So will avoid cities where possible
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We've just driven across Russia, entering from Kiev, Ukraine. Drove as far as Ulan Ude and then down i to Mongolia.

There are tarmac roads all the way to UB. The condition of some of the road in Russia is very bad and other stretches are very good. There's a short video clip of one of the rough sections on my blog at this link - [url=http://bermudarover.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2227&action=edit]Bermuda Rover
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Thanks will look at that. I am a little OCD with the planning at the moment.
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We've just driven across Russia, entering from Kiev, Ukraine. Drove as far as Ulan Ude and then down i to Mongolia.

There are tarmac roads all the way to UB. The condition of some of the road in Russia is very bad and other stretches are very good. There's a short video clip of one of the rough sections on my blog at this link - [url=http://bermudarover.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2227&action=edit]Bermuda Rover
You can drive from the Western most Russia border all the way to UB on tarmac roads?

That doesn't sound like much fun, I thought it was still rough tracks and some unmade roads.
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