We are almost ready for departure, but the weather is not promising...
Only few kilometres south of Saynshand, and the windspeed is increasing.
Sigbjørn needs more pressure in his tyre
Sigbjørn and Jardar in a sandstorm. The fierce wind made it difficult to bike.
The railway workers have given us shelter in a classroom. Lyngve (left) and Maider (centre).
The railway workers
The daughter of a railway worker
Maider and Lyngve, the latter one could need a shower....
Eric and the girl
Sigbjørn and Jardar in Pizza Hut????
Momos for dinner
This is not prisoners of Al-Qaida, but rather three dirty Norwegians in the apartment of Maider. From left: Jardar, Sigbjørn and Eric.
A railroad worker and a baby-camel
A scared camel, meets some strange foreigners
A dog in the Gobi desert
In the crammed truck heading for Saynshand. From left: Lyngve, Sigbjørn, Maider and Eric.
Maider invites us to his favourite restaurant in Saynshand
Eric, Sigbjørn and Jardar eat their best meal in weeks...
A camel in Saynshand. Lyngve tries to keep it calm.
Eric, Jardar and Maider in a museum in Saynshand
Clothing from the age of Djengis Khan?
Jeep safari
Lyngve and Maider want to fly
Camel and a nomad settlement
Nomads and their livestock
A Mongolian Ger, the home of the nomads.
Camels in the Gobi desert
Jardar takes a ride
Jardar managed to ride the camel on his own, but he needed some assistance from the nomad to get it down
Eric, Lyngve and Baga inside the Ger
Jardar drinks butter-tea
Dumplings are steamed in the fireplace in the middle of the tent.
Inside the ger/tent where we got dumplings/momos served. From left: Lyngve, driver Baga, Maider and Sigbjørn.
The nomad settlement
The nomads had a large number of goats
Dog relaxing in front of the Ger
A chinese jeep is not as reliable as a russian jeep, according to Maider
Sigbjørn, Lyngve and Eric eat momos/dumplings, the best we have ever tasted
A water well in the desert. Without water no life would be possible in the desert
We parked the Russian Jeep next to the sand dunes
Maider and Baga guide us to the top of a sand dune
A childish Maider
Real Gobi Sand Dunes
Reservoir Dogs: Mr. Red, Mr. Gray, Mr. Green and Mr. Blue.
A pleasant walk in the sand dunes
The sand-dune rises 10-20 metres from the sump on the left hand side
Sandy Mountains, Gobi
Sandy Mountains, rock formations
Sandy Mountains
Sandy mountains, Mongolia's Grand Canyon
Jardar at Sandy Mountains
Lyngve enjoys the tour to Sandy Mountains
Lyngve admires the scenic landscape at Sandy Mountains
Lyngve in Sandy Mountains, Gobi
Eric, Lyngve, Sigbjørn and Jardar in Sandy Mountains, Gobi
Heading for Senj (Orgon)
A local kid with Jardar's helmet
School girl in Senj (Orgon)
Jardar has a non-paying passenger. This is one of the boys that clearly was not in the tough gang. Behind in the bike cart we still have our fuel bottles.
The noisy gang of boys we met in the village of Senj. We suspect one of them of stealing one of our fuel bottles.
3 girls in Senj
Jardar leafs through the Mongolian dictionary in an attempt to converse with his new Mongolian acquaintances. On the right, Lyngve sits and waits impatiently for the bottles of petrol that have vanished.
Sigbjørn with the young girl who helped us to get our bottles back. Sigbjørn was given a hand-embroidered picture by her. Around his neck and on his head are the necklace and scarf he was given by the boy we suspect took one of our bottles.
The young girl invites us to dinner together with her parents, but we politely reject the offer due to lack of time.
Early morning in the desert
A truck in the Gobi Desert
The village of Ulan Uul in the background. Sigbjørn and Eric are visible as small dots in the middle of the picture. They're on the road that turned out to be heading in a little different direction than the one in which we wanted to go.
Lyngve struggles in the deep sand
Down 150 metres and then up 150 metres. In the foreground, Lyngve struggles upwards with the Bob-cart. In reality, it was steeper than it looks here.
Lyngve with the map and GPS. He discovers that we're on a road that isn't on the map, which was drawn on the basis of 15 year old aerial photographs.
Lyngve on the last day in the Gobi desert
Jardar's bike in the foreground. Here he drinks the last drops of water from his bottle and then bikes the last 2-3 km into Samod, the last Mongolian town on the border with China.
Finally we're riding on a paved road in the town of Samod. This is the first pavement since Saynhand, 200 km to the north.
Eric in the hotelroom in Samod
Jardar and Lyngve in Samod
In the background, the railway station in Samod can be seen. Men, young and old, play billiards outdoors in the foreground. They did this in several of the villages in the Gobi Desert.
