Dropped plan to go Max East to Magadan

... mainly due to re-export / transport issues - and turned back ....

Mission #1 completed: Made it to the 2nd Ulan. The Ude.

Mongolian - Russian boarder took 7hrs. according to customs officers this is normal case. Oh, glad to hear.

Now heading for mission #2: Magadan.

Met some Ex Mongolists in 2nd Revolution Bar in 1st Ulan

Strolled downtown, saw a pub called Revolution, thought: it's time for revolution, baby. Had some beers and excellent food. Met Ex Mongolists and other nice people. Should go there when in Ulan the first one - it's next to the State Department Store downtown.

Now we take the Ude.

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The first Ulan: Check!

Arrived at Ulan Batoor after a leg mainly tarmacadam.

We deeply admire Mr. MacAdam for his invention.

The Ulaans are waiting for us. First we take the Batoor then we take the Ude.

After a decent bonfire for our National Birthday celebration camp (1st of August in Switzerland) with a near-miss in steppe fire due the the trial to exstinguish fire with our pet bottle gaz reserve, we hitted another strange Mongolian city named Arvikheer - what?!

Took the South route in Mongolia which is considered to be easier than the Northern one, but still very demanding in terms of offroad and crossing rivers. Good luck to all teams coming ...

The Ulaans are waiting for us. **First we take the Batoor then we take the Ude. **

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Made it out of the hot tub and into Novosibirsk ....

... now in a hotel formerly been a soviet system apartement called Hotel Avenu ... scary ... we hope we get out here with our kidneys ...[gallery] Drag and drop images you wish to upload within these gallery tags. [/gallery]

Hit Omsk after taking a detour to Kasachian boarder

Spotted other team at the hotel

Crossed Ural ... now in Kurgan

Found a hotel obviously formerly been red light... but whirlpool is good

Touchdown in Ufa

Bought additional and still lacking equipment in Kazan and now ready to hit Ural and in some days Mongolia

Still in Kazan, Tatarstan

Good place to have a rest and to fix the exhaust ...