The day starts with thundery rain again but soon clears. A great breakfast in our semi posh "Nine" hotel in Ulaanbaatar. Garry and John have agreed to oversee the packing of the bikes back at the Oasis hostel, whilst Steve and I hire a taxi for the day to go and visit the Genghis Khann statue, memorial and visitor centre. Mongol leader Genghis Khan (1162-1227) rose from humble beginnings to establish the largest land empire in history. After uniting the nomad...

Another thundery night sleeping in the yurt at the Oasis cafe, Ulaatabaar. We all take a taxi down to the bike shippers and get all the paperwork in place for getting our bikes back to the UK. This includes getting our identities verified through a legal Notary. We get back to the Oasis cafe hoping guys from the bike freighters have started building boxes for our bikes, but there is confusion and delay and don't have any straps to tie bikes down properly. Will...

A lovely night's sleep in our yurt, the odd times I did wake it was pouring down with rain, quite cozy really! We get up at 9am and it seems strange that we are not putting the gear on to ride the bikes. Still, we are all ready for a well deserved rest! Breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon in the Oasis cafe with lashings of coffee goes down well. My stomach is still feeling tender however, so do not want to risk eating too much. The rest of the day is spent re...

We set off from Bayankhongor for the last leg of our journey to Ullaabaatar, Mongolia without any breakfast. The weather is cool and cloudy. It is nearly a 400 mile journey as we are a bit behind from yesterday but it is all tarmac. (So we are told). After paying a toll to go out of the town over the river bridge it is a joy to ride on tarmac. I shall never complain about the state of the roads in the UK again. However, within a few miles we are diverted back o...

We rise with the sun and take down our tents and repack everything back on the bike. Not a bads night sleep, once I got to sleep! Back to the off road, it seems to be getting better, a bit more of a solid surface but still plenty of soft sand and corrigations to deal with. We manage to find a stopping place for our mid morning chia, but nothing to eat. Soon after we set off, disaster my bike over heated, we initially thought it was the cooling fan as there wa...