 good morning we actually had to blow up our mattress and put it on top fitted perfectly like a glove just preparing our lunch and we had already our host coming in and making us a nice cozy fire this morning good morning world welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle we're here in the small village of songino in the west of mongolia and it's our third night sleeping in a traditional mongolian gear but as cozy as it sounds there was a huge rainstorm for the whole night and normally it's fine you know we are inside it's nice and cozy but check that out there's no window also we have some bugs crawling around here and i found this morning already tons of them underneath all these shoes oh a little bug invasion oh he's upside down oh luckily they're not disgusting or anything like that they're actually quite cute in the night i was like sleeping and then suddenly i felt something on my on my cheek and i was like grabbing and throwing i did the same thing like something was on my neck and grabbed it i threw it then i realized just a second later that it was my earplug a one or two o'clock in the night we decided actually to blow up our mattress because if you see here but despite all the challenges during the night we're ready for another exciting day heading further west into mongolia so let me show you guys where we're heading today by the way look how beautiful this table is so after five days riding in mongolia we are now here and today we are going to be continuing on this road past the massive kargas nor lake then we're going to be hooking up with this road and finding a place to camp somewhere in this area here we are going to ride at least five hours today so we don't know exactly where we're going to end up tonight or where we're going to sleep tonight hopefully we have a nice space where we can pitch up our tent but we still have to pick up everything and it's already 750 so better hit the road let's go i'm supposed to be packing up but i'm just playing with the dog yes i know it's putting his paw on my paw i think it is paw on my paw what is it on 35.5 and bring it up to 38 so quick i love this machine easy as the lexin tire pump the best attire can get but guys oh my god mongolia is the country of eagles hello what are you guys cooking oh it's a marmot you shot shot the marmot this guy he shot the marmot with a bow and arrow that's crazy can i see so these guys are basically going to cook the marmot meat inside the marmot skin by putting hot rocks inside and then dropping all the meat inside wow this is not a vegetarian meal that's for sure so here you've got all the marmot entrails all the meat pieces and uh salt wow give it a smell barbecue yeah nice hey all the meat gets stuffed in there wow you can still see his like little toe yes from here it's like an alive marmot and then you come up and these guys don't know that we're mostly vegetarian so then tying the top of the marmot with a wire wow wow good job good job good job that is raw mongolian cuisine i can't believe you just went out and shot that marmot this morning with a bow and arrow i mean that's insane thank you very much thank you thank you very nice we start in england and then all the way north africa north america korea vladivostok russia mongolia kazakhstan yes back in england yeah finish now i've just got to deal with the challenge of getting back to the road through this look at this i mean this is basically a beach here so i think i'm going to go round here and along the bottom here okay thank you 456 okay i'll let you know if i get stuck but i think it's okay got that traction by dunlop wow bye bye first petrol station let's get some petrol yeah because after this town songino i think there is no more towns for quite a while i think i don't know when we're going to see the next town good morning good morning yes so the price here for 92 is 2,980 mongolian you know what i never learnt the name for the mongolian currency anyway 2,980 which is about 70 75 okay i'm going to practice my mongolian thank you okay we learned yesterday from the kids i don't think she understood she didn't understand it i'll try one more time before we leave thank you bye bye yeah i can tell you the mongolian language is not easy that word is really hard to pronounce like i try it so many times and they just look at you they have no no idea what i'm trying to say all right all fueled up and ready to hit the road west hey yes let's do it we've just stopped on the side of the road because we saw a small herd of camels over here how cool is that i'll never get tired of seeing camels that's for sure look look look camel poop i remember that from marocco this all looks like stones but actually this is all camel poop this is a bit of camel poop i think they noticed us they're all looking at us they've totally noticed us what a scene hey amazing it is you just want to lie down on the ground and just i don't know just be yeah hopefully tonight we can just find a place like this and just pitch up our tent and just enjoy the landscape is that a view or is that a view that is a view this is the absolutely massive chiargas lake and we've been riding past it for like the last i don't know 20 miles already i mean it is just it's just vast yeah it's absolutely huge there's a point of the road where we're going to reach pretty close to the lake the closest point coming up in a few miles so we're going to stop there and have a lunch break next to this massive and beautiful lake a little bit sandy looks really sandy okay then i'll just stop where these rocks are yeah let's just maybe just stop here okay so we couldn't really get down to the lake to be honest i thought it was a little bit easier the material here is like not the easiest to ride on so oh that'll do that's as close as we're gonna get i made some sandwiches this morning but we run out of marmite so back to just bread and cheese anyway i was super hungry so this break we did really good so far we did 130 miles already and it's just 12 o'clock good progress today honestly it's like spotting on the camera on the lens cannot see him you know what i was above his head the whole time yeah now i see him i ah now i've got him hello okay my first task is to get back to the road so lavie's just walked up to get a good view of me falling over okay let's avoid these prickly bushes okay where am i going to go okay back this way oh that's a little bit slidey okay i might need a push okay ready three two one go yeah yeah yeah come on traction by dunlop yes i'm getting closer getting closer come on yes oh my lord how did there happen to be a car coming right as i was about to go up seriously this road is not busy at all and just as i was about to come up the bank i think we have to walk it up the bank together i'm gonna go on one side you go on the other i'm gonna rev it up because if i try and go up this bank on my own it's gonna dig in and i'm gonna be stuck halfway yeah i didn't realize how soft the ground would be okay ready here just slowly we're gonna walk it up okay nearly there okay ready three two one ready three two maybe he's gonna help push hello nearly there oh thank you three two one go yeah thank you thank you very much nice to meet you nice to meet you bye bye nice okay yeah that bank was a little bit bigger than i anticipated oh man and a little bit softer yeah i mean rolling down is easier than riding up hey yeah i would have certainly fallen over if i tried to do that on my own yeah all right anyway cool all good back on the road so let's continue making our way west then first stop petrol station oh yeah how he's getting fuel as well hi uh night heat uh full thank you perfect uh ugly ugly ugly yes ugly uh sanga nor uh russia russian russian yeah yeah yeah and you olangom olangom okay off snore oh okay off snore off snore okay off snore off snore oh man uh off snore is the biggest lake in mongolia we should have stopped for lunch here would have been much easier yeah wow look at these guys amazing hello guys hello guys oh i love them so we're just trying to figure out where to go from here because the main road that we're on now goes all the way up to a town called olangom which is about 50 kilometers north but then the road that we want turns south from there and basically just runs along there like it's probably on the other side of this river valley but i can see on maps me there's a little cut through and the cut through looks like it goes sort of along here it's like exactly here going across to those mountains over there but we were looking out for something on the left some kind of road and all we saw was a dirt track so i don't know do you think we should just try the dirt track and cut through and then see it's around 20 kilometers to get through and then i think on the other side this road the a1701 might be paved but i'm not sure there's a town down here called olgi and i think that's where we need to go because ultimately we're looking at going across to this town olgi but there's no main road to connect the two so we're just going to try to go down to olgi across and find our way this way just give it a go hey as long as it's not sandy well that's what we're going to have to see isn't it i mean it is pretty much a desert here so let's see how it is okay yeah i think it's this road here yeah this kind of track going this way right yeah i mean look there's a sign it is actually a sign oh what is it saying olgi 70 kilometers perfect that's where we go in perfect i love how they have a sign and then like this is the turn off like this is the turn oh my goodness okay i'm going to go down straight i think is the easiest yeah perhaps okay it's just like yeah olgi 70 kilometers this way go for it guys oh my goodness i don't know if this is going to be a mistake okay so we seem to have lost the track yeah i think follow this road follow this one looks like we're kind of coming to a riverbed here it's a little bit rough hey oh my goodness we fell over