Butterflies and Flat Tyres

The Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) runs north and parallel to the Siberian railway and the road running alongside it just referred to as the BAM road is one of the hardest adventure motorcycling roads in the world and it’s estimated that only fewer than 50 motorcyclists have completed it. Although the…

Everyone who knows me well will know that I have a real complex about only one part of my body and that is my big butt. However my posterior has taken a seriously beating on this trip and I do feel very sorry for it. Anyone who rides bikes will…

Butterflies: The first thing that struck me after entering east Siberia was the number of butterflies one sees. I have never seen so many in one place, and as you ride down the road you just see hundreds of them as they cluster together on the side of the road,…

Of course being so close to the Russian border our campsite is infested with Russian Mozzies, but this time we came prepared wiht face nets and extra strong mozzie spreay.       So not being impressed with someone breaking my bike we all break camp and get ready to…

Finally we leave for Russia for the 3rd time. This time from Mongolia we will take the BAM (Baikal-Amur-Mainline) road and Road of Bones to Magadan. Coms will probably be less frequent but I’ll try updating the blog when I can and since my SPOT is working I can be…

We are making the most of our time here in UB while we wait for one of the guys to get his Russian Visa sorted (what a nightmare, if we didn’t know better we’d assume the Russians did not want tourists, the process is a nightmare and completely illogical) We…

  Since I am no speed freak and also hate bad traffic since it freaks me out a little I really did love the “off-road” in Mongolia and was a little disappointed on the way to Ulaanbaatar when we finally hit the tarmac. The best thing about the final stretch to…

So what can I say about Mongolia. I think the pictures will say a whole lot more. This place is so vast and beautiful the landscape changes a lot more than it did in Kazakhstan. I just love it, it’s so beautiful and the people are fantastic so friendly. The…

Having reached Mongolia we are spending a free day in Olgiy before the 5 day off road stretch to Ulaanbaatar over the Northern Road. We had the most interesting fun day ever. We visited an Eagle hunter in his Ger camp. The eagle hunter is really good and has received…

So we’ve finally made it to Mongolia. I thought Kaz was vast but nothing prepared me for how wild, vast, desolate and stunning Mongolia is. This is like arriving on another planet. The area we arrived in from Russia is quite hilly with huge mountains in the distance. The terrain…