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The northern route
Published on September 9 2014
Although everybody was warning us that it had rained recently and roads are muddy and rivers are high which makes the Northern route to cross Mongolia very difficult we did not intend to explore mosquito heaven (we were told) and 800 km of washboard on the central/southern routes. So the choice was easy, I got an Unimog after all ;-).
The northern route it was....
beautifully changing landscapes
we had only a few scattered showers but I couldn't detect any difficulty so far....
finding nice camp spots required some searching as we were entering the large plains around Lake Uvs, the largest Mongolian lake....no wind-no kiting as on all the other lakes we passed...
hmmm the water does not seem so healthy either...
slowly some green again, however in the distance you can see the most Northern sand dune desert in the world...
Here we are right at the edge of the desert, which actually is quite green....
we hit a few towns, mostly characterised by abandoned industrial Installations where Russians tried to introduce large scale Kolchose type organisation of agriculture... well that did not go down so well with the very strongly nomadic Mongolians and now all this is falling apart...
colorful sceneries ;-)
thats the way one drives here sometimes....just following your nose cross country
Approaching another touristic highlight, Khovsgol lake, but first a good coffee and cake in this "American run"! coffeeshop
found nice spot on the lake which has very clear and cold water, could not resist though :-)
did some horse riding as every tourist here (there are many, mostly Mongolians themselves though)
cozy hut we stayed at and the truck will be found in their guest book forever now...
You know that little flower? Edelweiss highly protected in the Alps and here you can't help it to crush a few...
"deer stones" near Moron.
The typical image of a modern village home...wooden shack, commonly a yurt and an outhouse within the fenced area and a big V8 Landcruiser parked in front... Now we are heading South towards the capital...