
Road to the Gobi
Chapter I: cycling trip origins and the ride from Ulaanbaatar to Dalanzadgad.
Claire and Harrison’s first long journey together in marriage! Two months with bicycles in Mongolia, down to the Gobi Desert and up to the Khangai Mountains.

Chapter I: cycling trip origins and the ride from Ulaanbaatar to Dalanzadgad.

Part 2 of Mongolia Honeymoon starts (and ends?) in Dalanzadgad, the provincial capital of Ömnögovi Aimag, where we took a rest after riding the cold highway down from Ulaanbaatar in the country’s center. We had some audacious plans for our Gobi section of the trip. After idling a few days and route planning at a […]

Chapter 3: from Ulaanbaatar with a broken bike into the Khangai mountains

A two week stretch of mountain crossings through the Khangai

Claire and Harrison’s final stop was the storied and mightily scenic Lake Khovsgol, Mongolia’s most famous lake.