Hello again,

It’s time again to say hello before heading off into the void. It’s now 3 weeks ago since we arrived in Ulaanbaatar and the organisation of the Russian visa, a new Chinese visa (just to go back for 1 day to obtain a new Mongolian visa) and necessary border permits (we plan  trekking and mountaineering in the border region of China/Mongolia/Russia) took most of our time. Not shocking anymore are some political unrests along with burning buildings and (like a deja vue) troops in the streets: somehow these things seem to attract me Although we haven’t been affected too much (except that they stopped selling alcohol for 5 days) it came as a big surprise.

During the next weeks we will ride towards the west and after the long break in the city we are very keen getting back onto the bicycle. With good maps and tons of GPS data we shouldn’t get lost during the next 2000km.

After the serious database mess I was able to restore all data and most sections of the homepage have been updated too:

• Statistics: new entries of the last 100 days and China (complete)
• Multimedia: restructured and some movies included
• Photographs: China (06 Jangsunglhomo Trekking, 07 Lhasa II, 08 Kalurong Trekking, 09 Pulha Ri Trekking, 10 Commuting to Beijing, 11 Beijing - Border) and Mongolia ( 01 Border - Ulaanbaatar, 02 Ulaanbaatar Round Trips)  have been published as well.

Enjoy the new input and until later

Bambitee and Boris