Posts in Mongolia

Mongolia in the Heart

Having cycled across Mongolia meant having made a long-time dream come true. 55 days that felt like leaving the time and space in which one is used to live in.

MongoliaNicolás Marino4 October 2013adventure, beauty, bicycle, cycling, desert, gobi, mongolia, mongolian, nomads, people, photography, photos, steppe, touring

Stardust

The more I travel the more I understand that idyll doesn't come in one but multiple forms. As time passed by, I discovered that the beaches of turquoise crystal-clear waters are as idyllic as the snowed peaks of the mountain ranges or the infinite grasslands of the steppe.

MongoliaNicolás Marino25 September 2013adventure, bicycle, cycling, desert, gers, gobi, horse, mongolia, nomads, sand, sky, stars

Lake after Lake

The journey to Lake Hövsgöl left us completely exhausted. We spent 12 days and cycled 648 km riding at an average of 35 to 45 km per day, through trails of sand, mud, r

MongoliaNicolás Marino12 September 2013adventure, bicycle, cycling, ger, grass, grassland, horses, hovsgol, lake, mongolia, nomad, remote, riders, shepherds, stars, steppe, sunset, taming, tent, terkhiin tsagaan nuur

Problems and No Problems

In terms of physical rigor, the entire journey to Erdenet had passed almost unnoticed. Having just passed 10,000 km and 6 months in the tropics cycling steep

MongoliaNicolás Marino4 September 2013adventure, asia, bicycle, cycling, forest, grassland, hovsgol, lake, mongolia, river, siberia, steppe, touring, woods

Nomadic Life

Mongolia is a massive and sparsely populated country. With an area of 1.564.115 km2 and just 2,800,000 inhabitants, the density of the country is reduced to less than 2 persons per km2.

MongoliaNicolás Marino27 August 2013adventure, animals, architecture, bicycle, cycling, ger, mongolia, nomad, steppe, tent, touring, vernacular

The Magic of the Steppe

To depart from Ulaanbaatar was much more than getting out an ugly city. Departing Ulaanbaatar was to get out of what we, urban dwellers, know as the very same "world". It was a relocation to a space and time that for us and for those who grew up and still live in cities, it is only part of a faraway imaginary planted in oneself through storybook reading or described images in the books of history of some distant time.

MongoliaNicolás Marino17 August 2013adventure, bicycle, bulgan, cycling, erdenet, grass, green, magic, mongolia, steppe, sunset, touring, traveling, twilight, Erdenet

Entering the Tale

There are moments in life that are slow in coming. Moments, that perhaps, one has been looking forward and even yearning for days, months or years.

MongoliaNicolás Marino7 August 2013adventure, alcoholism, beijing, bicycle, china, cycling, drunk, mongolia, steppe, touring, train, traveling, ulaanbaatar, ulan bator