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Alex Mumzhui with his Brompton on Silk Route to China.

Silk Road

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-20 17:44:21

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to share with you, my subscribers, all my findings. These ones are from Mongolia. Ulan Bator, Mongolia is the most convenient crossing point between the Europe and South East Asia.This is why it is good place to meet the great travelers of nowadays, These guys who survived somehow from the times of the Great Geographical Discoveries. Two Englishman spot my Brompton bike in Ulan Bator Internet Cafe, and started talking with me. They were in a middle of their trip from London to Singapore on bikes. They biked from London through the all European Russia and Siberia to Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Their Internet site is: www.multimediamark.co.uk/cycleoverland . I am so sorry I met them just before my departure to China. Another guy stayed in the same 5 bed both sexes dormitory room as I in guesthouse "Nassan" in Ulan Bator for $4 per night. He and his team of two Australian and two Canadian started from the source of Selenga river in Mongolia on canoe and rubber raft. They sail to Baikal lake, cross it,and continue along Angara river to Yenisey. At some point they change the vehicle.They found an abandoned wooden rowboat, and to amusement of Russian villagers fixed it and continue their trip till they reach Dudinka where Yenisey fell into the Arctic Ocean. They had several interesting moments. At white water in the beginning of Selenga river one guy was separated from the rest of the team and arrived few days later at the border crossing point to Russia at Naushki with canoe, but without passport, food, any documents and shirt. Border guards gave him their formal uniform. The same team last year sail Amazon from source to delta.Their site is www.raftyenisey.com. I met German couple which traveled from Germany to Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tyrkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgystan, Kazakstan to Russia and then to Mongol border where I met them. Their Internet site is: http://www.tourdeasia.de/. My Russian friends told me that it is too dangerous to go to these Mid Asian ...