 Good morning world, welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the town of Kharkhorin in Mongolia. Last night I went to bed feeling not too great. Yesterday I started taking antibiotics for a chest infection but after a cozy night in the gear I woke up this morning feeling already a lot better. So yeah let me show you guys where we're heading today. Okay so we are here and today we're gonna start by visiting a few spots around this area before taking this road up past Cesar Lake and continuing northwest up to finish the day at Turkin Sagan Lake also known as White Lake. So the lake where we aiming to camp tonight is about four hours from here it's already 10 30 and we still have to pick up everything so better hit the road let's go. The weather is not looking very good this morning I think we're gonna get very wet today. I'll just ride out of this area so you could jump just after. This is kind of exactly where the horn is so every time I do full lock this way it's like gonna beep. Oh there's a hole. There's a bit of a hole. Wait a second. Yeah I'm out I'm out. It's okay. Wait. Yeah I'm trying to turn as fast as possible. Wait a second. Whee! The front wheel went in a hole. I did not see that. Stick to the paths Ollie stick to the paths. Thank you. Very nice thank you. Thank you. Tire's good. Still there. Bye bye bye. Beautiful. Yeah that was a really cozy night hey. So so nice. So this is Khakhorin in front of us. It's sort of a very big place. Population is only 14 000 people but it is really really important historically for two main reasons. The first is that this was the site of the ancient city of Karakoram. It was actually the capital of the Mongol Empire between 1236 and 1260. So back then this place was booming. But not only that but Khakhorin is also home to the oldest surviving Buddhist monastery in Mongolia which is called Erdenzul Monastery and quite conveniently it's right in front of us. And this is our first stop for the day is to go and visit the oldest monastery in Mongolia. We just asked the lady as well if she has any places to recommend at the White Lake what we're going to sleep tonight and she said there are many many gears. So we were probably sleeping a little gear tonight. Yeah that would actually be really nice. I think it's such a good way to spend the night inside there it's just so cozy and like yeah I had a really good night. Yeah me too. Okay beautiful. We're here in Erdenzul Monastery. Erdenzul Monastery began construction in 1585. The ruler of the Kalkat Mongols Abtai Sayin Khan ordered the construction of this monastery after meeting with the Third Dalai Lama. This is the oldest surviving Buddhist monastery in Mongolia. It's pretty awesome. It's really nice the souvenir shop is inside a gear and this gear has beautiful painted patterns on the wooden slats. So nice. Camels. So now we are going to visit the Karakorum Museum which is actually not very far away it's just like point one of a mile in that direction. The sun is out. Kind of. 50-50 at the moment. We've put our rain gear on now as well but here it is the Karakorum Museum. It's actually quite a modern building. Looks really nice actually. Is it a good thing? Yeah. Ready to go. Hello. Hi. One hour later. So we're just having our lunch and we're hiding under this pagoda which is part of the museum grounds. It started raining like crazy. To be honest I'm kind of scared to hit the road. We haven't even got anywhere yet. It's already like one o'clock. It doesn't look very inviting today. No. No. So let's just enjoy an egg and cheese sandwich. Yes. And see if the weather improves. I just waterproof my boots. They have a lot of holes now. Olga and Sergey they gave me actually plastic bags and some tape because it gets quite cold here as well. That's a professional job right there. All right we had a break in the rain. Bye bye. So we are going to hit the road. Yeah actually it's looking a little bit blue skies over there isn't it? I think it's crossed it stays dry. So we weren't allowed to film inside the museum so we were just like oh it's okay we'll make some notes and I'll tell you guys what we learned on the inside. So we learned that Karakorum was declared the capital of the Mongol Empire by Genghis Khan in 1220 and this was a pretty crazy city at the time. 10 to 15,000 people living here. The city had 12 Buddhist temples, two mosques and a Christian church. So it was a totally like multi-religious place but not only multi-religious but also multi-ethnic. Apparently at the time there were people from Mongolia, Tibet, China, India, even Europeans living here in the 1200s. What happened after is that the grandson of Genghis Khan, the famous Kublai Khan, he actually moved the capital of the Mongol Empire from here from Karakorum to Beijing because they took over China and they even renamed the Great Mongol Empire the Great Yuan Dynasty. But then it all fell to pieces. In 1388 the Great Yuan Dynasty was overthrown by the Min dynasty of China and they basically came to Mongolia and completely destroyed the city and that was the end of Karakorum. That's crazy though. You would never imagine now looking at this small town which exists on this site it was at one time the great center of the Great Mongol Empire. But what's really interesting is that the population of the town is 14,500 people which is actually nearly the same population that it was at that time. The amount of people here hasn't really changed in like a thousand years. So that was a really cool museum. It was 10,000 entry to the monastery and to the museum per person which is about £2.50 per person. So in total we've paid out only £10 this morning for all of those amazing things that we saw. Just hoping that this road is okay but it seems all right. So we have one more site to visit here before we hit the road properly and that is just up here on the hill and that is the monument for the Mongol states and apparently you get a really nice view of this whole area. This entire area which is called the Orchon Valley is actually a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of the natural beauty of this valley but also the historical significance. Oh hold on where am I going? Gotta go down here. I can see the monument up on the hill actually. It's just up there. Let's see how the road is to actually get up the hill though. See if it's all right for us to ride. Yeah. Anyway a really good point when we drop the bike we can quick relief our Moscow motorpanias so it would be easier to pick up the bike. But anyway we haven't dropped bumblebee in a long time now. Oh no don't say that. Oh my god. Now you've said that I can feel everything is going wobbly. I'm kidding I'm kidding. Is this the road? No this is not the road. Maybe there is no road. Okay this is like here like a roundabout. Okay wait one second just trying to figure out what to do. Okay I mean there was a road over there but no no. Ah yeah he's pointing to go round. Okay we just try and walk it through this bit. Yeah okay yep I'm good good good. Oh my god. Yeah this looks more like it. I think we might get there. Oh my god is this really the parking place? What is going on here? Okay at least this bit is concreted. Oh my god. Oh my god. That was a bit dodgy but hey look there it is. Wow. The town of Harkhorin. Beautiful. The colourful roofs. Yeah really really cool. Really cool. Wow yeah you can see here the map of Asia and the gold part is representing the fullest extent of the Mongol Empire under Kublai Khan. Hey look at that eh. He nearly got the whole world. Yay that's a lot of territory. Wow and the blue part is Mongolia. Cool. Yeah it's like this typical Buddhism sculptures we see along the road as well they're always putting like rocks on top of each other. Yeah but this is a big one look at this. Yeah okay let me just have a look here what's going on. Holy moly. Yep yep yep yep yep okay okay okay bit of an adventure obstacle course on the way down. So that was the great Mongol monument and that is it for our sightseeing in Harkhorin but it's been actually a very very very cool town to explore. So many cool things to see. So much history here it's just an amazing place but now it is time for us to get a move on and try and make some distance today. So far we've clocked up a total of 3.7 miles. Oh my god look at this I think I didn't take this road last time did I? No I don't think that you did. Oh my goodness okay it's okay it's okay. Oh sliding a little bit. So it is time to make some progress now. So we're aiming to make it four hours now down the road and finish the day at a lake called White Lake. Wow look at this dog. Is it a bear? Is it a wolf? No it's a Mongolian sheepdog look at them. Wow. Oh they are impressive. Beautiful. We've got to try to get back to the tarmac. Yeah. It all looks just as bad as each other. All right I'll go this way then. Yeah yeah I think that's a good choice. Yeah. So now we just have to somehow get up there. Oh here to the left. Yes there we go back to tarmac. Okay so this road definitely has its challenges. Look at the amount of potholes in this road it's absolutely crazy. I mean it's like potholes but then they've actually been cut out into squares like they're kind of ready to be filled in but then there's just no one filling them in. If we go into that at 60 miles an hour that's our rear shock gone again. It will be quite painful for Bambili for sure. I just can't believe how many there are you know. Yeah quite a lot of obstacles in Mongolia that's for sure. Yeah. Oh that's nice. Oh it looks so cozy. It does. She's like marking the horse I think. No way. Yes I think they drink horse mug. Yeah I guess they do yeah because like if you're a horse herder you have to get everything that you need to survive from the horse right. True. Look at this crazy view. Just one massive grassy valley after the next day. Yeah endless. The world's largest petting zoo. Guys we just had to stop here because either these are some really hairy cows or this is our first yak herd. I'm pretty sure it's our first yak herd but I want to go check out this fella because he's got some big horns. Cool. Oh and he's doing this with his legs. Okay I'm gonna not go too close. That means we've now seen herds of cows, goats, sheep, horses, camels and yaks. And humans. Herds of traffic. This traffic just is barely moving. Wow what a country. Hey what a country. That's amazing. So we just stopped here in the town of Cecelech and look at the mountains in the background of this town. It's a spectacular view. Yes definitely. Anyway I was super thirsty so I thought we'd stop off at the mini market and get ourselves a nice juice or something. And also I can show you guys what it looks like on the inside of a Mongolian convenience store in the middle of the mountains. Hello. Hello. This is what they got going on. Oh what's this? Some little short breads. Those look pretty good to be honest. Okay I'll see how much they are. Look they've got all the regular stuff. They've got Oreos. They look a ton of different chocolate bars. They even got Milka. Milka, Nestle, Haribo. It's pretty cool. What was I going to get? Oh yeah juice. Juice juice juice. Vodka vodka vodka vodka vodka vodka vodka. All vodka here. All vodka. In fact this is all vodka all the way to here. That's like a whole massive corner dedicated to vodka. Look it's like a brown vodka with like pine in it. What I would like is a nice pineapple juice. Hello. How are you? Good? Good? This one five thousand five hundred. Yes okay and this one. Perfect eight thousand five hundred. Thank you. I'm from England. Yes thank you thank you. I got some good old pineapple juice and I got like a whole thing of something. It looked really tasty. Okay so I thought I thought I'd just go for it. And the whole thing came to eight thousand five hundred which is like two pounds. They're good. Very tasty. Look at this crazy mountain. Yeah super cool here. Yeah there's a toll booth here but I think I think it's probably ah it's free. Cool. Well here we go. We're going up into the mountains now that's cool. Oh some bottles here. Hello. Hello. Oh with a baby. Oh that's a big one. Yeah it's a little bit slalom here. Yeah not too easy. So what a stunning location hey wow. Yeah wow amazing what a view hey what a view. Oh yeah back on tarmac back on the open roads. Look at this hairy fella running across the road. Oh my god it's a yak and it looks like he's quite angry with that dog. That's the nice thing about this country if you just stop anywhere you want on the side of the road go and lie on the grass. That's nice. That's like the modern way to hurt hey. Just driving the car behind the hurt try to push them in one direction. There we go. Oh we're gonna get a close yak encounter now. Oh they're all running. Sorry guys. Where are you going? Oh hey. Oh I love yaks look at them they're so they're so fluffy. Yeah they look cool. They're so cool. Hello. They're a bit like Highland Cougs. Yeah. Yeah look at this guy. Hello. Amazing. Yeah as we're getting a bit further north into the mountain region definitely seeing a lot more yaks. Yeah wow beautiful animals. An upgraded cuter fluffier version of a cow. Anyway we're bouncing along here. The road is not very good anymore. No no we've got some sections of road missing. Some parts they thought no this is just too many potholes we're just going to take away the entire road. Anyway we've got 26 miles more until we reach the lake. GPS tells us it should take us about 40 minutes. We've arrived. We're here. We're going to be looking to cap basically any of these gear caps. So maybe we should just check out these guys here. Oh Jesus do you think I can get down here? I don't know. Can you? No why not. Give it a go eh? Yeah. Give it a go. Hello. Hello. Do you speak English? A little bit. A little bit okay. Do you have space for two people? Yeah okay. Okay. Yes around there yeah. The last one. Thank you okay. Okay all right. Perfect. I think she met this one. So so cool right next to the lake. Unbelievable. I'm so excited. Cool. That looks nice. Hey it looks cozy. Yes and we will really enjoy tonight here. Yeah this is going to be really really really nice. I'll bring the bike over and then we can unload. Okay. Okay so we just want to show you guys how convenient and amazing these Moscow Moto Panyas are. So we want to bring our stuff into the gear. So just pull on this little tab. Wake it up. Could you do yours? You can do it. You got it. Yes and then boom the entire panya. We can just bring it in. Look at that. It's so quick. And then the box and then the tank bag and that's it. So we went from like seven different items to bring in to just like five easy clip-on items. That's so good hey. Wow that fire is cranking. That is putting out some kind of heat I can tell you. It's so cozy because we were getting cold already and then the owner here she brought in a lot of firewood and we were like jackpot. But then I tried lighting it with some paper and it was like absolutely not happening. So then we went and asked her and she brought over like this gas canister with like a blowtorch end on it. She was just like you on fire. So it's a cozy end to a super interesting morning and a spectacular ride. Yeah I can't believe how beautiful Mongolia is. I'm so super surprised. It's really one of the top countries I think we have visited so far on our trip because it's just so different. The way how the people living here so far away from our reality that it feels so alien but at the same time we are totally in love like we were talking about already getting a gear for ourselves you know because it's so cozy and nice I love it. So we really can't wait to go back on the bike tomorrow and explore more and see more about this beautiful country and that's it from us today. We hope you enjoyed the video. 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