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Northern Route
I just finished the Northern route from UB to Altai. (sorry I can't post a link right now, Google maps is not working correct for me)
"It is to muddy" they said. "you won't make it" they said. I had dry,dusty,rocky, desert like riding the whole way. With the exception of of a few small river crossings and this one just south of Moron. N49.5844 E100.1513 The bridge is down. Not bad.. maybe 30cm deep.
There is no place to cross the Boh Moron River here. N49.7369 E90.2087
I went north until I was 20km from the russian border. There were some place where it looked like people in 4x4 crossed but I was not about to try on the KTM.. alone.
You have to go south of Achit Nuur Lake. There is a small river crossing on the east side of the lake also.
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Thanks, i will be at the border in 3 days, and the get slowly to Ulanbataar
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We are in Olgi at the moment and there are some problems, first there is quarantaine in the moment, so they wont people get up the northern route, but this might change in a few days.
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We met people, they are traveling here in Mongolia since mire then 10 Years and realy know the country ( know them personally)
They are around with a big Unimog 4x4 and they dont do the northern route at the moment, because the weather this year iss unusual, there was a lot of rain the last days, and the snow is melting ( prety long unusual snow season this year ) so itn is hard to pass northern route at the moment.
We decided to go a little bit the southern route and then go up to the center route to Tsertseleg ond on....
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We just arived in UB after taking the northern route.
We meet Snoah for grilling at Blue wolf in olgie and followed his advise. The route was no problem at all. It was very dry, and we only had a small river crossing. The water barrely reach the axels of the wheels.
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I'm back in Astrakhan with a broken rear rim, the bad road between Dossor and Aktobe is to blame...
I have a replacement in Barcelona that will ship out on Monday, and then depending on how much time and money I have left, I'll weigh my options.
I can't risk breaking another rim on really bad roads, and I can not enter Kazakhstan again because my tourist visa only allowed one entry, so I'm considering riding to Irkutsk through Russia and then down to Ulaanbaator, but I fear that route might be too boring, any advise?
My other option is to go north to Moscow and then Saint Petesbourg and keep going to the Nordkapp.
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Originally Posted by Snoah
I just finished the Northern route from UB to Altai. (sorry I can't post a link right now, Google maps is not working correct for me)
"It is to muddy" they said. "you won't make it" they said. I had dry,dusty,rocky, desert like riding the whole way. With the exception of of a few small river crossings and this one just south of Moron. N49.5844 E100.1513 The bridge is down. Not bad.. maybe 30cm deep.
There is no place to cross the Boh Moron River here. N49.7369 E90.2087
I went north until I was 20km from the russian border. There were some place where it looked like people in 4x4 crossed but I was not about to try on the KTM.. alone.
You have to go south of Achit Nuur Lake. There is a small river crossing on the east side of the lake also.
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You do.t need to go south so far, just to take the old track and cross here:
N49 42.409 E90 13.694
Locals sign it with wooden sticks in the water.
Groetjes,
Jeroen
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