July 11-12 heading Ulaangom

Passing 2 strange lakes , heavy rains again, nice mountains tracks with no one.first experience to lose one of us and seeking him for couples of hours.
no mobile phone coverage.
Strange 30 km tar stretch from ulangom to Russian border with 0 traffic...
Stop over in the wild by nice hills 30 km before the village
Other puncture.. Thierry s bike.
Nice people on the road with motorbikes amazed by our strange machines.
Broken bridges and destroyed tracks.
A good restaurant in Ulaangom
Other tire puncture ..
Super camping spot in hills and a dry river bed where we make a small "mini-fuego"

Mongolia, Altai mountains June 6-10

My friends arrived last night, from Ulaan baator, driving 2000 on hard pistes, with a old ... Ambulance - 3 days do do that, and they are tired.
1.5 days to prepare their bikes , change my 2 tires for proper knobby off road ones ( and by the way to throw away the old ones which are completely dead)small 250 yamaha, just to make them working as the guy who rented them didn't prepare anything.
I plan 4 days north West of olgii , for a first off road stretch of 800 km.
Absolutely fantastic - average altitude 2500/ 3000 m, and difficult terrain, from deep rivers crossing , hard rocky goat tracks, and muddy patches
We spend 4 days in the area and camp in amazing spots - first tyre puncture on one bike , and a lot of bolts and nuts lost..
Mosquitos ( who likes Alvaro a lot.)are quite thirsty
And ..
I m happy they will stay with me all the month as it allows me to go off beaten tracks that I will not do if I was alone - I don't want to die here.
Their cuisine is absolutely better than mine -!
I plan 4000/5000 km off road here, just hope the bike will make it - as after I will still have 8000 km to ride to Korea.

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July 4th and 5th , Mongolia , waiting in olgy

This is super rustic tented camp with rain passing thru the roof,.. Pseudo-Internet and generator powered electricity..the weather is quite cold here.

this is the time for the bike service, 2d oil and filters change, and bolts and nuts tightening !
I plan to ride between 3500 and 5000 km in Mongolia , out of beaten tracks , from the high mountains and the alpine lakes to the Gobi desert and it's heat and sands.
So I spend quite a lot of planning and prepare my navigation tools . After my trip last year in the area, I ve a good idea of the remoteness and difficulties - like sands and deep river crossings. Just hope my Ktm will make it.
I have news from stefano, my Italian biker friend I met in uzbekistan . It seems he had 2 successive break Down with his fuel pump, and he didn't manage to fix it- seems he sold the bike and went back - by the way I don't remember If I noticed that stefano had only .. One leg.
So he was moving his almost 300 kg Honda Africa twin with a single leg.
My friends coming from Ulaan bataar (UB), should have tough time to drive the 2000 km of terrible piste. I plan to hit the road tomorrow- looking forward to it !

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