 So these guys are basically going to cook the marmot meat inside the marmot skin. They're all looking at us, they've totally noticed us. Three, two, one, go! So we're just trying to figure out where to go from here. We were looking out for something on the left, some kind of road and all we saw was a dirt track. Do you think we should just try the dirt track? And then I think on the other side might be paved, but I'm not sure. We're looking at going across to this town Ulgi, but there's no main road to connect the two. So we're just going to try to go down to Ulgi, 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? It's just like, yeah, Ulgi, 70 kilometers this way. Go for it, guys. Oh my goodness. I don't know if this is going to be a mistake. So fast, not too bad. Oh, navigation! OK, let's take it nice and easy, hey? Yeah. Yeah, imagine a few years back Mongolia would have been just road like that, you know? Yeah, we're really lucky that we didn't do this circumnavigation like five years ago, really. We would have had no chance. No. Oh my goodness. Not too good, is it? It's not too good. Yeah. Mongolian Cous. Hi, guys. Well, they look so chilled. They do look chilled. Enjoy your day. Don't let us disturb you. Wow, beautiful. OK, so we seem to have lost the track a little bit, but we are heading in the right direction. But here is a sort of track, but it's more of like a trench than a track. So there is no way that I'm going to take that. Here's some sort of road. I think, yeah, I think follow this road. Follow this one? Yeah, I guess so. Oh my God, there's just tracks everywhere around here. OK, this one looks a little bit better. Yeah, just follow this road for now. I just try to follow maps me here, but I mean how funny is that, hey? Like that's not even a road, this is just a track. Yeah, the sign was like, oh, Uggie, 70 kilometers this way. Like if you can find the way. Yes. Oh my goodness. If you can find it. But so we're supposed to be joining up with a bit of a bigger road soon, right? I guess so. How far away is that? I don't know. Well, my map in front is going crazy. It's like, it doesn't really understand what we're doing now. Yeah. I don't know. We'll just keep going straight for now, shall we? Yeah, we sort of have to keep to the right, though, somehow. So we've just decided to forget all the tracks and we're just driving straight cross country because we can see that there's a bigger road right in front of us a couple of miles away. This way. This way? Yeah. OK. So we should hit a track in a minute. Can you already see something? Yeah, I can see some like dugout bits ahead. Let's see. Yeah, yeah, there's something coming up. What's this? Oh yeah, it's here. This one, this one. This one? Yeah. Oh wow, yeah, great. Careful. Yeah, it's this one. OK, so it's not really a bigger road at all then? No. It's like the same. Oh, I really thought we were heading to a tarmac road then. No. No, apparently not. OK, we're getting closer. Apparently there is a big road coming in one and a half k's just down this track. Or a bigger road. We don't know exactly how big. A little bit off-roading here. But we're starting to see more signs of life as well. We've got some gear set up around here. Really, I have such a big respect for these guys. Really such a big respect. Because there is no running water. There's no luxury. There's just the luxury of living with the nature and living with your livestock. Yeah, you've got a choice between camel milk, camel cheese, or camel meat. They know how to survive in a really harsh condition. Yeah, I cannot believe the guy this morning was like, I'm just going to wake up and go bow and arrow and marmot. He knows that. Wow. It's like one with nature. Yeah. One with their surroundings. Yeah. Unless you're a marmot. Anyway, apparently it should be there in a minute. There's some telephone poles. Ah, telephone poles. That's got to mean a bigger road. So moment of truth. I think this is probably, oh, there's like nothing. There's like nothing here. OK. Yeah, I really thought we were coming to something, but apparently not. According to this, I am like, I am here. This is it. I mean, we're like dead on the line now. So I'll just carry on straight, shall I? I guess so. Orgy is down this road 52 kilometers. OK. OK. So that's it. We reached the big, big highway. It's not too bad. Oh, no. How big is the stream? I don't think it's big. Wait, should I? No, no, I think it's OK. Yeah, it's fine. Look, I can see the depth. OK. OK. OK. Yeah, that's not the highway I was expecting. But OK. Looks like we're kind of coming to a riverbed here. OK. Yep, to the left. OK. Wow, yeah, there's really a river. OK. So then I've got to climb up there, yeah? Yeah, apparently so. OK, let me get a bit of width. OK, OK. It's a little bit rough, hey? Oh, my goodness. I don't know whether to go left or right here. We fell over. I went into a sandy bit in the middle, and then we just slid. Oh. Let's take the stuff off first, hey? OK. So let's just take off the pannier. Three, two, one. OK, there's this bit which seems to have ripped. OK, ready? Put the stand down. OK, three, two, one, go. OK, good. Yeah, this one on. The crash bar is bent, but it's OK. Bayitha. Bayitha. How did the Mosco Moto pannier do? It's got loads of dirt in it, but it seems to have survived. How does that look? Yeah. Thank you, Bayitha. The pedal's still on, which is good. Yeah. Really good news. And the brake bar, it looks cool. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it looks OK otherwise. Yeah, because it didn't seem so soft. And here, look. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, this still looks straight, relatively. Luckily, we are still in one piece. 15 minutes later. OK, everything's back on. And let's just see first if the bike is going to start. Here we go. Yeah. Thank you, Bumblebee. We are. Bumblebee is a real trooper, hey? Yeah. Nothing broken. I think we're good. Oh, you know, now I say nothing broken. I'm not sure this front brake is. The front brake didn't feel like it was working properly. Is it? Or am I just being paranoid? I thought it came in further, but maybe not. Maybe I'm just making it up. And we're back on the move. Back on a bumpy road. Yeah, that was our first fall in ages. Yeah. I can't even remember the last time we fell off. We were doing so well. I know. Months and months and months. It's really a pity here. Yeah. We have just to make sure that we get this bike to Kazakhstan, you know. Yeah. How many days now until our visa expires for Russia? 11 days. 11 days. So I think I'll take it a little bit easier on this road from now on. Anyway, probably have another 10 miles until we get to the first town, which is called Ulgi. And then from there, we're going to have another look at the map and see which way to go. Yeah. Wow, there's really a town in the middle of nowhere. We'll look for a petrol station first. There should be one in town somewhere. I think I can see a red bit over there. I think that's the petrol station. Oh my god, look. That's Tarmac. Yes. Tarmac in the town. Oh my god, that's cool. Oh, nice. Yeah. Hello. Hello. Really cute. Oh, there's a petrol station. Oh, is that it? Perhaps that's it, yeah. I think that's it. Careful. Careful, careful. Oh, it's OK. OK, cool. Oh, no, oh, no, no, no. What are you eating? OK, thank you. OK, how's the foot pedal now? Still all right? Still good. OK. Bye-bye. So the look of. Oh, that's a shop. That was a shop now. OK, so we're just having a look at the map. We are currently, I think, in here somewhere, although it doesn't actually show this town. So we are currently here. And actually, where we're trying to get to is here, Tsanganur, which is the border town before crossing back into Russia here. Now, normally our plan was to go this way and then head up to this lake, Ashidnur, like this, and then across to Olgi and then up to Tsanganur. But judging by the fact that what we just did over the last 70 kilometers is considered a main road. And if you go this way, it goes from main road to secondary road. Secondary road to literally, I don't even know what those are, like tiny red line roads. So like even way smaller than what we've just taken to get here. The other option is to head down, continuing on this main road, main road. And that reaches the town of Hovd. And then from there, this green road is a tarmac road that can take us up through Olgi and up to Tsanganur. It's a bit of a detour, it's a bit of a longer way, but it actually has the least amount of dirt road before we actually hit another big road. But for today, we're just gonna do like another 30 minutes, get out of this town, and then we'll go find a place to camp, eh? So I am pretty much done for the day. Two drops is enough for one day. So this day is just going from bad to worse. So look at this sand. I look at Bumblebee. And we barely got out of town. You can still see the town in the background. We've got like 10 minutes out of town and Bumblebee's on the ground again. Wow, it got really sandy, really fast here. It's just really bad, bad road conditions. Okay, ready? Three, two, one. Okay, ready? Three, two, one. Let's try again, because I thought we nearly had that. Three, two, one. Oh wow, gotta take off the tank bag. Also, I did hurt my rib a bit, so I'm not at full strength. Okay, right, let's try again. Ready? Three, two, one. Okay. Nothing broken. At least sand is soft, eh? Might need to push up my back. It's more like it. Can we lift this up together? Okay, ready? Three, two, one. Three, two, one. Okay, let's find a place to camp before we fall over again. Okay, well, our first long dirt road in a long time is not going very well. Absolutely terrible. It's been a real challenge, and it's been not very nice. Luckily, we have our Mosco Motors panniers, which we can slide off very easily. Yeah, it did make it a little bit quicker to sort it out, didn't it? Totally, but as well, these roads here are just terrible. You think you're on the main track? It turns out that there's a more main track that just popped up next to you and then you're on the sandy track. Yeah, exactly. So it's really hard to know when you're on the main one or if there even is a main one. I don't think there really is a main one, to be honest. Yeah, you don't even know like what's the main road anymore. It's like really hard to know. It's hard to know. Anyway, I think we will do like 15 minutes more and then we'll find a place to camp. Yeah, let's go over there, shall we? Okay. That looks like it's sheltered a little bit. All right, you can jump off. I think if we go down there behind that hill. Okay, shall I just follow you? Okay. So would you recommend for just like pitching the tent here? The surrounding is spectacular, absolutely spectacular. It is amazing. I'm very exhausted. I'm ready for bed. Yeah, let's pitch up the tent. I don't know if you remember our beetle friends from this morning. Oh, a little bug invasion. Oh, he's upside down. Oh, they actually came with us. I don't know how, but they made it into our pannier. What an amazing location. We've got our climate tent and our climate chairs to make for the most scenic and most comfortable camp. Wow. The ride was absolutely a disaster. It was a disaster. I just think we went probably, we just went too long. We should have just stopped earlier to be honest. I mean, we already did like 200 miles of paved road before we even turned off onto the dirt road. So I just think I wasn't like, I don't know. I just wasn't ready for it. We dropped the bike three times, three times in the past two hours. We're really testing our luck. Dropping bumblebee three times. You know, we can't afford to take the time to do repairs. We have just 10 days left to get in and out of Russia. So yeah. It's now about 90 miles dirt road and then we will hit a paved road and from there on it should be fine. So fingers crossed tomorrow, the 90 miles will be durable somehow. I don't know. I'm not looking forward to it. I think I might have hurt my rib when we fell off. Maybe the first time, maybe the second time, maybe a combination of both, but combined with the fact that I have like a chest infection now when I cough, it hurts. So it's like compound now. Today I'm just going to write off today and say a bit of a disaster, but tomorrow is going to be better. Yes. 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 and we will see you next time. Our leftovers from yesterday and I mixed two eggs in there. So it's like a sheep and egg mess basically. I don't even know what that is, but it's got good fats, good proteins, and it should give us some energy to take on this dirt road tomorrow. Ready to start the day? Just about.