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| We are now finaly in the charity-rally. Today we went in Ulan Ude in a internet cofe to print out the costum paper. (the costum wanted the stamp in red, but with a b/w laser it's not that easy. After 6h waiting we had a second stamp in red, and we could go in. Met some the first others teams. |
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big Lenin head
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bridge not finished
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so we took this one
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noisy bugger
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snake at the border
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jurt
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bit loaded
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Mongolian landscape
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rascal shadow
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landscape
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cowboy
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arrive in Ulaan Baatr |
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| Today we've arrived in UB. Everything went well. We never thought we were going to make it here, but we did. Now we are planning the way home. One possibility is to take the train to Beijing and fly home from there, but for that we first need the chinese visa, we will check this out on friday, when the embassy is open.
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landscape
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irish guys
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more landscape
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landscape
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yaks
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arrived
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handover the car
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lazy day |
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| Today we had a lazy day with some shopping and sight seeing |
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typical mongolian vehicle ?!?
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local hats
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our guides from the charity
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local waitress
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into the outback |
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| We went off quite lately. And we got lost. But we followed the GPS wich brought us back to the mainroad. Inbetween we had to return from a pass, because the rocks where a bit to big |
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he`s coming back
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endless Mongolian landscape
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good old gps
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pass
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religion?
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100 km from nowhere
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Touring Mongolia |
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Position : More than 113deg E.
We went through the savana and ended up towing a Mongolian SUV with 8 to 10 people inside (we couldn't count them because they were moving around so much).
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new bridge is not finnished
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so we took the old one
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main road to Baruum Urt
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Lost Mongolians
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wild camels
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rental car from CDPF
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crossing the desert I |
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| Today we've crossed a part of the desert. We saw a lot of dead animals. The nigth we've spent next to a jurt. We've been invited in, and they gave us something to drink, they called it chai, (tea), we think it was warm sheep or horse milk, certainly not tea. |
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water crossing
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dead camel
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first dunes
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RR with spirit of extasy
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oasis
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again infinite landscape
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sunset at the jurt
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Mongolian Savana |
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Back from our 3 day tour through the Gobi Desert. We hired a 4x4 for the journey and it was great fun. We will fly back to Zurich via Berlin on Aug 1.
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cranes
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12 lanes to choose from,
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transsib in a straight line
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Arthurs yurt
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deep blue sky
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a rock in the desert
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crane
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flying home |
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| Today we've flown home. Met some dutch in the aircraft. Got some troubles with the german customs, and nearly missed the connection flight to Zürich. |
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