Green Russian hills to Mongolian wilderness

200 miles of Russian Altai to ride before the Monglian border - the roads were wet, but the rain held off, but it was certainly chilly.





As we approached the Russian border, there several military establishments - one airfield, and a large radar base;


Nestling in the distance beyond the Altai hills were snow capped mountains, and scandinavian-esque rivers;




A relatively quick Russian border crossing of 1.5 hours and we were straight into 15 miles of no-mans land;
Russian side;


Mongolian side;


No-mans land ended at a small mongolian town;


After a couple of hours negotiating the border crossing (and avoiding customs officials trying to change roubles to mongolian Tenge (at very poor rates), we stopped off at the local cafe;





With nightfall a couple of hours away, we set up camp for the evening;