 I look really great so I'm still feeling a bit sick this morning to be honest but I also just realized that it's our last day on our temporary import for bumblebee in Russia we got 10 days when we arrived and today is the 10th day so doesn't matter how I feel we've got a ride to the border today but first free breakfast! We've got a beautiful breakfast this morning of eggs cheese bread pancakes some tea and all those are but anyway never seen in his life hey bon appetit! Good morning world welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle! We're here in the city of Olado day in far eastern Russia and yesterday we had a day off to try to recover because over the last week we both got head colds and unfortunately one day was not really enough because I still don't feel too great but we really got to get out of Russia today so let me show you guys where we're heading today okay so we've finally crossed all of Siberia and we are now here and today we are heading to the border which is here so we're gonna be heading down this road crossing over here and hopefully finding an accommodation somewhere around here or maybe here so we're not gonna push ourselves too hard today the aim is just to get across the border into Mongolia and then we'll pretty much find the first hotel we can find or a hotel within an hour of the border yes it's about 150 miles to the border which is about three hours it's already 9 o'clock so better hit the road let's go oh we are just getting rain proofed here just as we're about to leave as well it doesn't look good I also rain proofed my shoes with some tape and a plastic bag yeah ready to hit the road hey it will be a wet one unfortunately as well it means we have to take off the media mod so we won't be able to talk to you guys on the bike at least until the rain stops where your bin bag hey wow stylish and practical terrorist fashion show I'm coming just putting on another layer because it's really cold now cold and wet and also I had to have a nose-blowing break also I just saw on the odometer that we just hit 34,000 miles on the road okay let's continue in the rain we're just warming up with a nice coffee here we are just five minutes from the border now we removed our rear camera because we don't want to look too crazy when we arrived there let's hope that the process will be quite easy and nice all right coffee time is over it's time to take on this border hey ready to leave Russia and head into Mongolia yes I am ready oh yeah well anyway our temporary import permit finishes today so I don't care if you're ready we're doing it anyway we're crossing this border today yeah we have to really we have to I mean yesterday only was really casual checking our temporary import permit and it's like oh my god it expires actually tomorrow yeah yesterday we just had a day off recovering a bit and it was kind of like oh should we have another day off I looked at the temporary import permit I'm like no no we shouldn't all right anyway we're gonna turn off the cameras now because the border time is here one eternity later what time is it is it five o'clock oh my goodness it's taken us four hours to get to where we are now I think this is the last barrier is this the one I thought that's it well we can just go past it because we are on a bike I'm not sure let me see no I think we should wait because what is this office here no idea you have to jump off or not okay he wants me to park yeah okay I just go in a circle and park okay it's gonna turn me camera off I thought we were done we're not done all right now we are really really done for real we are the last barrier actually that last bit there was insurance so they actually make you buy the insurance before they even let you into the country which I guess which makes the process much much easier because we don't have to go and find it yeah and it was quite cheap as well I think it was seven pounds that was all we had to pay yeah no road tax no import permit costs no it was everything was for free yes all we had to pay was seven pounds for insurance but it did take a long long long time four hours in total to do all the process 99% of that was just waiting around first on the Russian side we were just waiting in a very long queue because they only allow like five or six cars into the gated search area per like at a time but then they had to search everything and they were searching all the cars yeah really you had to open every back and every car had to open everything like they were going around with mirrors to check underneath the cars they were going around like everything and you won't believe it but in the search area I left the keys to the bike on and the bike went flat the battery went flat which is absolutely ridiculous but yeah the battery went flat so then we had to jump start it from somebody else who was being searched move the bike over to them and be like oh whilst you're getting searched and your bond is already up could we just hook our jump starter cables so I don't know the batteries going dead more often recently yeah then it used to be yeah it's a little scary but anyway we've got the bike started and then on the Mongolian side we had to get our new temporary import permit and get our passport stamped but again it was like one window for the customs people and there was a huge queue of other Mongolian people coming in and I was kind of just waiting patiently like okay I've got to get my permit eventually but man that took ages to get to the front of this queue which wasn't really a queue but more of a crowd trying to get to one man at one window it was really messy on the Mongolian side wow anyway eventually we went through all the processes got the temporary import permit got our passport stamped and that's it we're in and look there's already some garrants that's so cool I'm so happy really I'm so happy because oh my god we forgot to tell you whilst waiting in the queue to exit Russia they already pulled us out and we had sort of a like an interview why we went to Russia and what is our plan of the trip and what is going on like pretty much what are you doing here and she asked us like loads of questions for like half an hour and I was just like shivering like oh my god like every country that we went to on the trip so far like the home address phone number in England phone number in Russia so many things like they really wanted to know everything and then kind of he was looking in the passport at every single stamp there's a little bit hairy hey I just can't deal with something like that you know I'm so scared but also whilst we're waiting in the queue a guy from Mongolia called Eva actually came up to us and started chatting to us yeah and so pretty much we're just following him now because he said okay if you want the SIM card follow me I will show you the place where you can get it and also if you don't have a place to stay for tonight I would like to invite you to my place so yeah it should be quite cool because he's a really really nice dude he speaks perfectly English he told me already that he spent some years in America while studying and yeah it would be really cool to arrive in Mongolia and already make friends the first actual small town coming up I can actually see up ahead so perhaps we're gonna stop there and get a SIM card first and then carry on to his city which I think is called Dhaka anyway it's so cool to be here in country number 25 on our trip around the world this is definitely another milestone to have reached Mongolia because you know with what is going on in the world at the moment is always like this this border crossing was scary a lot of people were apprehensive for us going into Russia and we didn't really know what the situation was gonna be to go in what the situation was gonna be to go out you know just what might happen to us being from the UK and Germany riding through Russia ten days later after leaving Vladivostok here we are yeah into Mongolia exactly and I must say as well that everyone is actually really really friendly to us especially in Russia everyone was really welcoming I've been blown away by our first experience of the Russian people really everyone that we met so far they've always been like that's amazing and then we show them the trip and they're just like wow that's so good and they're just so interested in the bike and the journey let's see how the Mongolian people are but we've already been invited to a guy's place and we already just come into the border that's a good start to Mongolia no Mongolian cow Mongolian cow on the road yeah so we're just coming into the first town of Mongolia and no they do not all live in Yurts there are real buildings in Mongolia real multi-story apartments yeah they look actually quite modern and nice yeah hopefully we will actually get to stay in a Yurts or as they call them in Mongolia a gear that would actually be really nice yeah well no the SIM card place was closed unfortunately Mubikom is the name so we'll have to get a SIM card tomorrow but now we just said to Eba that we were really really hungry and he's like yeah we're really hungry too so in this town before we continue any further we're going to go and get something to eat so we're here with this amazing massive pizza and we're here with Eba and Yana hello they've taken us to this place that has pizza it has kebabs it has chicken it has everything here it's amazing and we were really really hungry after a long border crossing so it's time to dig in English, French, French, French, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, South Korea, Latvian, Mongolia, I'll have this one and then see how it goes if like you have like worst condition ever then you can't eat this, otherwise don't take it but he's a man, it's always worse to eat this food, it's always worse oh my god look at this there's a whole herd of goats crossing the road huge herd of goats oh my god we're just riding along here and it gets nicer and nicer and nicer I'm so impressed with Mongolia already and it's been just like 30 minutes you know beautiful mountains yeah wow look at this mountain vista up ahead all the way along here amazing mountains, welcome to Mongolia, another roadblock don't worry that's crazy you see fences are quite important sometimes because otherwise look what happens, fences are boring, the herd of cows just decided hey let's go across the road now it's the perfect time thanks guys hello that's nice so we've had a herd of cows we've had a herd of goats what's next what's next the herd of camels and it's really nice you can see here on the left the nomadic gears, cool that's so cool yeah and there's gears kind of all over this valley here so you can really see that the people here really are living semi-nomadic lives packing these gears up and actually moving around the landscape setting up their home as they go along oh it's happening here I think somebody's got stuck okay it's like you're having your mind what Mongolia is all about and then you come in and within like an hour of being in Mongolia it's like yep that's exactly what I imagined herds of cattle herds of goats mountains in the background grassland gears amazing incredible yep ticked all the boxes Mongolia you did it yes so we've just arrived here in Dahan which is Evers hometown and we're actually going to be staying with these guys tonight which is super cool because actually Evers is working for a YouTube channel which has something to do with Mongolian culture we haven't checked out the channel yet but it's gonna be really interesting to see what that's all about hopefully he can give us some good pointers on where to go and what to see and how to experience Mongolia in the best way but yes so far it's been such an incredibly nice ride like we had so many horses passing us and yeah it just looks like an animal park here a lot of it I couldn't record with my GoPro because the camera battery died and we only just changed it where we got into town but we passed massive massive herds of horses and goats and cattle and I couldn't believe it but on the top of the hill at one point we saw a group of camels which absolutely insane we've already seen a group of camels we've only been here for like half a day incredible man Mongolia is really really incredible I can't wait to get out there and explore more of the wilderness of Mongolia and camp out there as well it's gonna be so cool yeah and we had already so many people coming up to our bike and jumping on our bike and taking pictures with us and waving oh man the people here seems so nice and open-minded wow we didn't even get into the country and we were already invited to stay with someone yeah we're off to a really good start okay so a little bit of off-road to get to Iba's house yeah Iba told us that he used to live in Ulaanbaatar he moved there from here to there but then he said he moved back because it was just too busy too polluted and he just really liked it in his hometown and I can understand why I mean look around you all the mountains surrounding you it's a beautiful look at this way wow that's wild no way look at this he has like the most modern and beautiful house ever wow this is your place no way are you a designer that looks so cool welcome home good evening guys we made it happy and alive this is where we'll be sleeping tonight amazing I like the wall color a lot especially with this light if you guys can see but it's got like crystals on it and it makes a really nice pattern all over the walls getting really dark but I want to show you guys the view from this property look at this but it's just open fields and hills in the background at the end of Iba's garden how cool is that we will sleep here Iba and Yana sleeping next to us look at this bedroom cool we're doing like a tour of the house it's not fully done yet but you can look around I really really like this wall like carpet mural that's that's that's Genghis Khan yes it is and how do you say Genghis Khan Genghis Khan Genghis Khan yes and then you've got like rabbit and a dragon twelve years you're percent twelve years by the animal so we call it rat I see and it keeps going like this is it the same as the Chinese yeah it is it is how long ago did you build this for year and a half I guess the frame was built by like professionals okay like everything is like everything was made by myself you know the feeling when you like build something and it's finished and you're like yes I did this you know it's like it's so nice I kind of we put a bed into a camper van and that was as much as we did but we were it was just like a board yeah that was basically it yeah awesome bravo bravo and 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 we'll see you next time Mongolia thank you thank you bye bye bye bye