Heceventure

27209 - 28065 865 km After the disastrous day with the rear tire problems we headed to hot springs in Zetzerleg. As Marius had come there a day earlier we already knew we have to cross a river to get there. At this point I was traveling with Janine and Natalia. We drove pretty fast because we started a bit too late – again. On the way a young Mongolian stopped us due lack of fuel in his motorcycle. He was very drunk. While Natalie took some fuel to a bottle for him from her tank the guy draw his phone number in the dust of my windshield and gestured that I have to call him as soon as I get to UB and we shall have a wild party. I think that will never happen. It was already getting darker when we found the river. I just tried to look at the most shallow place to cross it and succeeded. I probably drove a bit too fast because my feet got a little wet. Janine and Natalia stopped on the other side to look for a place to cross. Janine chose wrong route. The river was way too deep for...

This must have been the shitiest day of my trip so far. It seemed everything went wrong from the beginning. After waking up I went to my bike to do the normal morning check. Oil, chain, bolts and nuts. I found out I have a flat tire. I put some air in it with my little compressor. In like 15 minutes it was flat again. Marius had decided to take the off-road route to the hot springs and I was about to go with Janine by the paved route, which was 2,5 times longer. A janitor showed me a direction to a guy who could fix the tire. After asking from half a dozen people we finally found the place. There was a great local munch who helped us with the tire and showed us the way out of town. I paid for the gasoline to fill up his motorcycle and off we went. We saw an old couple with a motorcycle along the road. They had run out of fuel. Janine poured the fuel from the stove canister to their tank but it didn't help. We managed to stop a car that took the lady to villa...

26152 - 26995 1121 km I have to admit that these last three days have been quite hard. Well, actually after my latest adventures in the darkness and without fuel we had a well earned day off in Khovd. We slept late, ate breakfast in the kind doctor's private hospital, did some maintenance for the bikes and even took a nap during the day. In the evening we found a karaoke pub which served absolutely delicious food. We started in the morning towards Altay in a perfect weather. The whole road was paved and riding was easy. We crossed the northern part of Gobi desert. In the evening we arrived Altay, which is a city in the middle of mountains in over 2000m altitude. Appeared there was some sort of medical conference going on and all the hotels were fully booked. Actually we got the last room: a presidential suite. After Altay begun another adventurous part. First 110 km was easy, paved road, but then this again… We made it to the v...

25594 - 26152 558 km These two days must have been the most adventurous, craziest and memorable days so far. I ride together with the Swiss couple (www.offf.ch) Janine and Marius who have been traveling since June via Turkey, the Stans and Russia to Mongolia. We have had a lot of fun on our couple of days together and we are planning to continue together a while still. We left Aktash in the morning with the most beautiful sunshine. We had about 170 km to the border and there was no point in trying to get there too early. So we took our time in the travel. After only couple of kilometers we saw the first snow topped mountains. We stopped for a lunch in some village and got to the Russian border at around 1 PM. Crossing the border was easy. "Drugs? Guns? Alcohol?" When the answer was "No" one can go on. 22 km later we came across the actual border fence. "Where Mongolia begins, the road ends". Couple of kilometers on a "road" w...