Ulaan Bataar to Oelgi on Northern Route
 

Hello out there!

We are currently in Ulaan Bataar. We drove here from Oelgi following the 'Southern Route'. It was a very nice ride, with a couple of breakdowns, but no major problems.
We are looking into travelling back to Oelgi on the 'Northern Route'. We heard that it has been raining a lot in Mongolia this summer so we were wondering if this route is doeable this year. Has anyone done it latley and have some infos for us? This would be greatly appreciated.

Take care and happy trails

Cecilia+Khim

Northern Route
 

Hi

We near the Northern enterance to Mongolia in mid June and we met up with a couple riding into Mongolia on the heaviest BMW 1100 GS that you have ever seen. Note that attached photo. It was raining heavily at the time and we decided that it was too wet, however they went on. We met them a week later when we entering Mongolia, they were exiting. They managed and had more problems with sand, they did go down to the Gobe however, so if they could do it perhaps you could.

He's his Blog http://mototour.cz/cesty.html

Ken

Noerthern Route UB - Oelgi
 

Thanks Ken for the picture!

We did end up doing the Northern Route too and I have to say I am very glad we did it. Compared to the South way around, it is a lot more scenic, there is nice valleys and lakes for camping and the tracks are a lot better up North, at least for bikes. Plenty of mountain passes and less of the corrugations that you find in the South.