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From the border with Russia I had about 9000 km to get back home to Germany and 2 to 2.5 weeks to do it.... The route through Ukraine was a bit too dicey for me so I planned a northern trajectory through the Baltics. On average the plan was to do 400...

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UB is the local (traveller) slang for Ulaan Batar, the capitol of Mongolia. Inevitably every traveller ends up here sooner or later, be it for visa extensions or otherbuerocratic tasks or stocking up on food or just having a short city blast after all...

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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...

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So now I continue here with a bit of a delay as internet in Mongolia and Russia was scarce and/or so slow that uploading images was not an option.... When entering Mongolia in the far Northwest corner in the Altai mountains we actually did not get very...

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We had about 4 days to cover the 1000 km form the Kazakh to the Mongolian border due to Rachael’s visa expiry date. From the border suddenly the Kazakh steppe changed into fully tended wheat fields as long as the eye could look across the Siberian plains......

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In order to get to Mongolia we have to drive 1500+ km along the East of Kazachzstan to southern Siberia in Russia… It was a long drive on pretty annoying roads… Road conditions were sometimes ok but mostly 70 km/h was the max one could drive. A couple...

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As the the title suspects our attempt to enter Kazakhstan turned out to be one of the toughest border crossings so far.... Bureaucracy is right up there with Iran but they are by far not as friendly and helpful as the Iranians... We were at the Koray...

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Royalty arrived in Kyrgyzstan :-). and got a tour of Issyk Kul lake and some mountains ... tripod on steroids.... actually this was the Kyrgyz-German-French graffity festival in Bishkek.. the international crew stayed in our guesthouse and we were invited...

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Entering Kyrgyzstan was still a mountainous high altitude affair… After three different stations on the Tajik side on the pass (typically bureaucratic but friendly and no hassle) the Kyrgyz border appeared almost like a miracle… 5 minutes, small stamp...

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From Murghab to the border of Kyrgyzstan. Offroading in the backcountry over 4300m passes without snow in this area of the Pamir plat Rankul lakes just could not stop taking pictures :-) subtle play of colours and light more lakes :-) further to the...

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