of stunning vistas following a circular
route that took us east toward China
then north to within a 100kms of Rus-
sia before riding west then due south
to return to Ulaan Baatar.
I was not alone in my concerns, ev-
eryone it seems was talking about the
“once in a century” floods that had hit
all of Mongolia, tragically, sweeping
over fifty people to their deaths, bridg-
es swept away and isolated countless
remote communities across the coun-
try, even the great Gobi Desert was wa-
terlogged.
We collected our motley assortment
of motorbikes consisting of Teneres,
XTs, KTMs and Transalps, along with
4 mechanics and three support vehi-
cles and made our way out past Sukh
Baatar Square, with a giant statue of
a stern looking Chinngis Khan stand-
ing guard over Parliament House,
that bordered the northern end of the
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