Mongol Rally Day 46 (part 2)

Altai Mountains (RUS)- Somewhere in Bayan-Ölgii aimag (MGL)

August 28, 2014

(continue from part 1)

We finally arrived at the Russian/ Mongolia border around 11am. We are super excited for our 20th Mongol Rally countries!

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Russia border crossing time: 11am to 12:00pm
Mongolia border crossing time: 12:30pm- 12:55pm

Our paperworks are all done by 12:55pm. We though that we can leave the border zone but all the Mongolian officers went to lunch at 1pm. Therefore, we have to wait until 2:15pm so that our car can be freed.

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Graham found out that our tire is totally bent. Fortunately we bought a brand new wheel in Barnaul!

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While waiting Young and I went for lunch at the small village. We had lamb dumplings absolutely delicious! You can see in the kitchen they use the dried yak dung as fuel for the stove.

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Finally we were released by this cute Mongolian border female soldier.

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There’s no paved road in Western Mongolia.

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Mongolian Yak welcome us!

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Once we arrived in Ölgii we took a different byway than other Mongol Ralliers did.

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No road! We found a cow skull and strapped it on Takhi Butter! Now the skull is proudly displayed in my living room!

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We drove till nightfall, passed by nomadic families and their herds and settle down for the night.

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Posted on January 12, 2015 in Mongol Rally

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