Sorry for the late response.
Well, there are some reports about some bugs on the road tying to get you to sleep at their house. And you will be robbed...
Those people are Kazakhs living in that area.
They really tried hard to push me off the road with their car in the town of Olgi while I was looking for the blue wulf ger camp (which is a perfectly safe place).
They try to invite you, they are standing on the raod side waving for petrol, they drive aside you in their car an try to stop you, and for putting up confidence they are often accompagnied by children. Do not trust them, don´t stop until you are safe in the ger camp.
We waved nicely and rode on. In Olgi it was quite agressive, and I had to keep all my senses on my bike and pace, that was really scary. Once I stopped in front of blue wulf, they vanished. But just to give way to the next scammers in a car, A guy with a woman and a small child. And it was obviously the guy who tried to rob a swiss pushbiker, who knocked the front teeth out of this guy mouth, he still had no front teeth. Itold him that I knew who he was, and if he didn´t want to lose the rest of his teeth, he should move the f...k on. Which he did with a burn out.
As soon as you are on the road out of Olgi towards the east, all is good: nice people (although they tend to come really close and have no feeling for "mine and yours". But on a very adorable level. I recommend to take some food and camp as much as possible, we were always safe and welcome to set up camp whereever we wanted (out of sight we thought, but there were alway horseback riders showing up for looking who we were, share a cup of tea or some other stuff with them, you´re probably camping on their ground ;-))
I really had no better campspots than in Mongolia, not to camp would mean to miss the point ;-)
cheers
Herbert
P.S.: we were observed by some greedy guys in two cars when we started out of Olgi, we had to shop in the supermarket, just two of us went in. On the way out, I missed the right way due to a malfunction of my GPS, which was a big luck, because we ended up in some suburbs with only small paths for pedestrians and bikes! They couldn´t follow an lost us. That was scary too.
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