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Arrive
Ulaanbaatar and transfer to hotel. Evening meet crew and allocate motorbikes. |
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Day 2 |
Set off eastwards towards Khentii Province. Leave the main black topped road before the village of Tsenkhermandal and ride over the mountains to arrive at the small Khukh Nuur.
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Day 3 |
Ride on rough jeep tracks through silver birch forest and open rocky hilltops to arrive at Baldan Baraivan Hid, which used to be one of the most important Buddhist monasteries in the country before being destroyed by Communists. Continue on to Binder district to an ancient King’s graveyard in the mountains. |
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Day 4 |
Not far from our campsite are some bronze-age rock paintings which we stop to see before riding on to Bayan Adraga village beside the wide Onon river. We cross this river later near the entrance to Onon-Balj National Park where there is a good bridge. |
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Day 5 |
Ride north a short distance to Dadal village where Genghis Khan was born in 1162. Where his mother’s ger once stood there is now a small lake, and we can drink from a spring nearby, the water from which the great man himself must surely have tasted. Drive to Norovliin district to camp. |
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Day 6 |
Drive across the fertile open hills of Batnorov district and through the village to reach Underkhan, the capital of Khentii province located beside the Kherlen river. Overnight camping on a mountainside outside the town. |
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Day 7 |
Return to Ulaanbaatar on the good new black paved road, stopping for a picnic lunch along the way. |
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Day 8 |
Transfer to airport for departure. |
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Price: US$ 2295 (includes motorbike hire) |
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Think Environment ! 
