 Good morning world! Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycling! We're here in the city of Olgi in the far west of Mongolia. Today's a really exciting day because we are heading to the Russian border for the second time. Let me show you guys the route for today. So after seven rides we are finally in the very very west of Mongolia here and today we are heading north to the Russian border. So yesterday we took a day off here. Yeah we needed it after two days falling off so many times. We fell over. Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! No no! So this day is just going from bad to worse. Oh no! No no no no no! Dammit! I think I've hurt my shoulder, my ribs I think they're bruised or maybe broken. I don't know we'll see how it goes. So we have one and a half hours now to the Russian border. We still have to pick up everything and it's already 9.40 so better hit the road. Let's go! Okay! Oh my ribs! Lavi's gonna be my little traffic manager. Yeah? Okay okay I'm going. I'm going up one. Oh hit the bash plate. Wow looks like a beautiful day to ride. Maybe I made a mistake putting my jumper on this morning. Yeah. Yeah it's time to leave Olgi. So where we were staying at this hotel Tavan Bogh hotel is basically in the very very centre of the city. This is like the main square nice statue of a man riding a horse there and I think there's some like little vehicles for kids to ride around on. Which is quite cool. There's a sheep there. Oh another horse. I think it's obvious to say that horses are incredibly important to the Mongolian people. Definitely. Look how many Russian vans here. Oh my goodness. I think they're on a tour. Wow yeah. Oh Jesus. I was looking at those vans and then I didn't realise there's a guy reversing into us. This city Olgi is actually famous not for horses but for eagles. So this is actually the place where they hold the annual Eagle Festival. It's like a competition. It draws a lot of people here to Mongolia. I think they do races where they basically they put a piece of meat like certain amount of meters away and then it's like a competition whose eagle can get the meat and get back and land on the guy's arm quickest. And actually on our way in to Olgi we passed by a guy who had a pet eagle. It's got an eagle here. That's insane. Oh it's beautiful. Which was absolutely awesome. Absolutely impressive. And you lifted it up right? You had it on your arm. How was it? It was cute. How bouncy it is again. Yeah unfortunately on the two days of dirt roading that we just did we seem to have broken our shock again. Yeah. Rolling along a really rough track and I just heard like a psssssh. It looks like there's a valve here and there's oil coming out of this valve. So we sent a message over to the guy at Suspension 101 in San Diego who actually repaired our shock a couple of months ago. His response to us was that shock is basically the end of its life. The gas chamber at the top of the shock the valve is basically blown out the o-ring so all the gas is gone because oil is also coming out the top it means that the separation between the oil reservoir and the gas reservoir inside the shock is probably also broken. So basically it just means that our suspension is very soft again. So he said basically just replace it when you can. So I think it's time for us to get in touch with Suzuki see if we can have a new shock sent out. It's a shame because it was bouncing all through like Central America and we were just waiting for San Diego to get it fixed then it was fixed and it was just amazing for the whole of USA, Canada, Korea, Siberia. Two days on a dirt road and toast. So yeah that's just another thing that we've got to deal with but we won't be able to do too much until we reach our big rest stop which is the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan. This is where we're going to be spending about 10 days resting and sorting out the bike getting it ready for the final leg. Currently we don't have the time to stop and do anything major because we have only eight days left on our Russian visa. We have about a four day ride to get through our Russian section and into Kazakhstan that's our last Russian section and this with the suspension is just another problem now but we can just pray and hope that the bike will make it. But anyway we have one hour 20 to get to the border so the first step on our mission is get into Russia and get on the road towards Kazakhstan. Let's do it! Epic Visa Head! Wow! It's gone into a dirt road now from a tarmac road with our shock the way it is it's just rattling around like crazy. Like absolutely crazy it's really really bad. Just bouncing bouncing bouncing on every single bump so it looks like we're basically going to have to crawl our way now to the border. Just take it really really easy. Yeah 30 35 miles to the border oh my god so let's have to bumble our way along hey. Yeah hello and I thought we were crazy just a little you're from France oh wow you're cycling from France here yes wow two years ago okay I started from France across Europe and Turkey but I have been stopped at the border in Georgia three months ago I moved back and I landed at Aktau yes and from Aktau I've been cycling up to here wow okay if you go to Russia be careful because you cannot use your yeah you need just cash hey yeah yeah yeah oh no how long were you in Russia for um I stayed only five days yeah we have to go now to Kazakhstan so to Barnaul and then I've been there okay I still have the map oh so this is the same way you did so I yes here Barnaul here and then exactly semi so it's about 1200 kilometers yeah a bit easier with this which border did you did you take this border or that border this one oh you took this one yes was uh was it paved road yes yeah everywhere everywhere good and this is extremely beautiful oh across Altai mountains yes yes oh that's nice yeah that's really cool so how was this border it was okay was okay because I had a two hours long interview wow two hours saying what are you believing yeah water agent okay so a lot of deep questions okay we arrived from Korea to Vladivostok we had also I think interview when we came in yeah and interview when we came out actually she was interviewed and um they came out they were all laughing and then they said they said to me we don't need to interview you we it's okay we interviewed her she told us everything and then we just yeah yeah Russia you already have your with a visa we have actually like a tourist visa because we got it last year it's valid for one year yeah but it expires in eight days okay so it's not like this all the way to the border okay that's good so you're gonna get to olgi today it's not yeah 30 miles or something more yeah yeah nice to meet you nice to meet you what's your name Christopher thank you so we're getting pretty close to the border now so we're just going to take off the rear pole just to be safe all right we've arrived at the Mongolian side of the border but the barrier is currently down I don't know I guess we'll just wait for the barrier to open and then yeah start the process yeah but I wonder if we um already have to do something here with our passport hmm I mean there's a big sign restricted area where the guys are walking I would say we just stick with the bike I can see a building over there uh-huh probably the barrier will open we'll go through to the building and then we'll do everything in that building I reckon okay so we wait much much much later all right passport stamped out of Mongolia everything is done it's time to head to the Russian side so they sent us back to Mongolia yeah they didn't want to let us in only joking welcome to Russia okay let's jump on cameras are back on cameras back on we are ready to rock and roll oh yes so that is it we're here in Russia for the second time we made it through the border incredible really incredible it still took actually nearly four hours in total yeah to get through both sides of the border I mean that was a pretty crazy crazy weight that we had to do on the Russian side totally crazy they're always just let like 10 cars in and then they process the 10 cars and the 10 cars can leave but you know all the other cars they have to wait in front of a gate for ages because the queue was long there were at least like 30 cars with trucks and everything wow so the Mongolian side was relatively easy to be honest we were through in about one hour and then it was about a half an hour ride actually from one side of the border to the other through no man's land we were just riding riding riding like where's the border and then on the Russian side passport control was pretty straightforward but it was the customs that really took us like I think it took us maybe an hour and a half maybe two hours just to do the customs process there's like only two customs officials and there's a huge crowd of people around just trying to give their documents and oh my god it is ruthless at that window so there's no queue there's nothing everybody's just holding their papers and trying to get as close to the window as possible there's no etiquette there's nothing it's just like people leaning up against people I had a woman with her face like two inches from my face and she didn't care she had her papers ready when that window opens and the customs guy gets his hand for the next paper she was going to be there she was going to be ready so I gave the papers to Lavi and she was just like hand through all everybody like yes get the papers to the front oh my god it was absolutely mad it was mad that's really unique here on the Mongolian border no rules when you are in the crowd but it is now 4 p.m and we have arrived in Russia now we can finally make it through to the Kazakhstan border before our visa expires so for today we're not going to do too much more riding we've got 90 miles to get to a hostel which we have found on Iovlanda I read it's 500 rubles per person so 1000 rubles before both of us this is about 10 pounds which would be absolutely perfect because at the moment here in Russia we have just cash and we have to be quite careful yeah once we run out of cash that's it basically yeah but anyway it looks like that the road is really really nice and smooth which makes me really really happy hopefully the road won't be bumpy because otherwise we are screwed it stays like this all the way through Russia I'm gonna be so happy yeah me too me too so anyway let's enjoy Russia we stopped here on the side of the road it's super super beautiful but we are both really exhausted I just crave for like a comfortable bed you know and an early night so we're having a little snack break I made us some bread this morning and we have some crisps so it's not long to go anymore and we're just chilling out here a little bit and just relaxing and enjoying the view look at these rock colors yeah beautiful hey are we here in Argentina yeah it looks like Burma Marca wow it's so beautiful here what a cool road just so peaceful hey knowing that the road is at the moment really good that I can't feel the suspension yeah after yesterday or the day before lots of negatives then today a few positives yes exactly so the state we entered into Russia is called Altai Republic and is named after this mountain range that we are going to be going through which is called the Altai Mountains yeah it's really crazy because every traveler told us oh my god the Altai area is so beautiful and wow we are just like 10 miles into this journey here and it's just incredible we've only like ridden for an hour and it's already just it's absolutely picturesque here really impressive wow that is a crazy mountain vista ahead look at that unbelievable yeah wow that's a lot of snowy mountains hello nice little things to stay in yeah unfortunately we can't stay in any of these chalet cabin type things they're probably out of our price range yeah but to see how Alton to hostel is yeah okay yeah I think this is the one yep Alton to okay cool perfect we made it happy in the life so we're already in bed it's like seven o'clock wow this day was really nerve wrecking especially crossing borders is always nerve wrecking but especially crossing this border it was like whoa okay so this was our first time coming across the Russian border completely alone but it went really well so I'm really happy about that apparently our Guinness World Record plan might actually work which is kind of crazy to be honest because I didn't really think that we could get all the way here before the visa expired I can't believe that in just a few days we are going to be past this stage into Kazakhstan and then it's just like free sailing from then on and as well we will have a little bit of a break we will catch up with all the editing and we will just rest our bodies and make a nice plan that we can see all the amazing sights along the way and we take our time but on a side note my rib was super painful for the whole of today so I just really need a rest so for today we will just rest and relax and try to sleep very early because tomorrow we have a really exciting day ahead so that's it from us today we hope you enjoyed the video if so please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel share the video with your friends and family comment below and if you really really really like our videos you can join us on patreon the link is in the description below we will see you next time