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Deepest lake in the world at 1642 Meters
Holds 20% of the unfrozen fresh water in the world
636 Km Long and 79 Km Wide
Is a Rift Lake hence the depth, ( like lake Tanganyika in Tanzania)
Water Volume is 26 615 cubic KILOMETERS, (yes not a spelling mistake, not cubic metres but kilometers)
Average depth 745 meters
Largest lake by volume in the world
Deepest lake in the world
Oldest lake in the world 25 000 000 years old
Holds more water than all of the Great Lakes Combined
2500 animals and fish species, two thirds endemic to the lake
1700 plant species, two thirds endemic to the area
150 types of snails found in lake… Read More

We always try to het to know the people of the country we are traveling through, getting to know their culture, eating the food they eat at the local places they eat. We went to see a show with traditional music played on traditional instruments, dancing as well as throat singing and contortionists.

We went out for dinner with all the paragliging guys in Ulan Bator and ate in a private dinning room, these guys arranged a place for us to lock-up our bikes.… Read More

We rode into the capital of Mongolia with the rainstorm that has been chasing us the entire day finally catching up and the wind whipped-up a huge dust cloud and for the tenth time today I tasted sand and wiped the dust out of my eyes.

The days ride was a lonely one as I spent most of the day at the back of the pack, I stopped for photos several times before I realised I had no memory card in my camera, then the wind started blowing sand storms and for an hour the visibility was so bad it reminded me of riding in the mist.… Read More

Lots of re-arranging and packing.

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Yesterday while Tex won a trip to the local pannelbeater to have his pannier bracket welded we visited the church in Ulan-ude which was the only Anti Religion Centre which was opperated from within a church during the time religion was banned during the Soviet era, (we are told that during that time different religions would help one another by hiding the other church’ religios items, so how I understood the person telling us, Buddha Temples whould hide Christian Crosses for the christian churches and they will in return hide symbols of other religions.… Read More