Howdy. Back on the bikes again. Left UB yesterday and the traffic was actually not too bad out of the city. Most likely because of the Naadam festival that goes on now. But the roads were horrible. Everything calmed down and the roads got better after we had been riding for about 45 minutes. Fun but still abit frustrating, as soon as we stop to drink some water or just stretch our legs we get surrounded by people that wants to take pics, sit on the bikes or check out every technical detail there are on the bikes. Always very happy and friendly but extremely interested in us and the bikes. And it´s not only ordinary people doing this. The police too. Eva and I stopped at this place for lunch yesterday and as we sat inside this little small restaurant we could see 6 or 7 mongolian motorcycle police officers walk up to our bikes, climbed on them, tried to open my tank bag and one of them took my gloves (I always leave everything on my bike) and put them on his own hands. Eva got really mad, walked out of the restaurant and gave them a lesson that they´ll not very soon forget! She pulled my glove off the hands from the police that had tried them on, yelled at them and told them in a angry tone that this was indeed not a accepted behavior. I don´t think that they expected a rather tall swedish biker girl to come out and give them shit and they backed away saying: “Sorry, sorry, sorry…..” and all 6 or 7 of them went to hide behind the small restaurant building. And they stayed there until we had left some 30 minutes later. I and everyone in the restaurant laughed our arses off when we saw this through the window and Eva got big smiles and laughs from everyone when she got back inside again…..! Doesn’t seem like people yell at the police here very often. Good fun! 😉
Otherwise it was a very fine day on the bikes. Decent roads and beautiful views for most of the days. Very straight roads….. 🙂
We stayed the night at a ger camp last night. Beautiful place.
Our ger, the bikes and the beautiful rocks behind…..
Animals are always fun and another animal that they have here is that jak. Mongolian cows….. Fantastic animals that I´ve not even seen on a zoo in Sweden.
Another curious creature that we laughed at several times today was goats……
We have plenty of goats back home in old Sweden too but people most often don´t lets them climb on top of their cars….. 🙂
Eva carrying a BIG bird! Don´t know if it´s an eagle or a big falcon but it was heavy.
Grand thing indeed.
Eva talking with a girl that worked at one of the stands outside the monastery in Kharkhorin. She too works as a school teacher usually.
Eva and I out in the middle of nowhere.
Fantastic views. More so in real than in a pic…..
We´ve stayed in Tsetserleg for the night. We´ll try to reach the White Lake tomorrow. More later!
Cheers!//Jan
Great to hear and see more pics. What is the temperature like? Nice? Hot? Besides, hope the goats didn’t try to climb your bikes when the were done with the car 🙂
Take care!
//Tina
Hi and thanks. 🙂
Temp is great. Not too hot or too warm. As close to perfect as it could be. 20 – 25 C. It often rains in the afternoon tho. And we left before the goats had a chance to climb ontop of our bikes….. 😉
If im not mistaken there is a nice little gercamp across the White Lake!
There are several. 5 or 6 at least. The White Lake is considered to be a tourist trap these days but compared to Visby or Tylösand…… Not really…… 😀 Beautiful place and we arrived on the last day of the Nadaam-festival and most people had left. We were basically the only foreigners there and the mongolians are indeed fantastic so we had a great time. If you go back in the future, do not take the northern route around the lake. There were some very rough parts with hill climbs that I don´t want to do again on a loaded GS Adv-bike. Scary shit. Eva impressed the hell out of me tho. That girl can ride off road.
Cheers//Jan
haha, bra skäl ut poliserna.
Jan, is that a pink bow tied to your beard? Also, what is a ger? Are they those white yurt-like round semi-permanent tents? And is a tarmack a paved road? Eva seems like a great travel companion. Looks like you’re both having the time of your lives.
Kelly
Kelly! Yes, it´s a pink bow tied to my beard. Eva has decorated me. A ger is the same thing as a yurt. Tarmac, asphalt and pavement is the same thing. As is petrol and gasoline…… 😉 Might be that they say tarmac in UK and pavement over on your side of the pond. We are having a GREAT time but it´s hard work at the same time. Sand and mud is a nightmare on our big bikes. We miss tarmac/pavement….! A few more days and things will get easier….. 😉
//Jan