This orange one? Okay, thank you. Look how quiet it is here. Why are you running away? I came here for you. Assalam Alaikum everyone and welcome back to the channel I hope you all are fine. I am absolutely fine.
We spent the night in this hotel yesterday. It was a somewhat difficult night for us. But...
What can we do? At times you find hotels where it is difficult to spend the night. There were some drunkards here. They were making noise all night. I tried to get some sleep though because today we are going to reach Altai, a city here, while taking southern route. According to Google, it is about 450 km from here.
The city we are in right now is called Hofd. Let's see. It is an asphalt road from here. I hope to have a comfortable ride. And reach there before evening.
There are some interesting lakes on the way. We will visit them. Let's see how beautiful the south route is. Let's leave from here. Everything is ready.
There was no breakfast facility here. I have taken yogurt from the supermarket. And ate it with the cereal that I had with me. I am ready to leave now. Bismillah... In the name of Allah
Prayer for the journey Ya Allah... May we have a good day today. Let's see. I am very excited to explore this route. It is very lively early in the morning. At night, the whole city was closed at 9 or 9.30 am.
This is the main plaza of the city. The kids are playing. I think they have school holidays. I think there is a statue of Genghis Khan in the middle.
Let's leave from here. The weather is so nice that after 10 days we are wearing our summer gloves again- Since I entered Altai, Russia and that whole region. And the days we have spent here in Mongolia. We still have to refuel Rangeeli. We are down to almost 2 bars. Are those the shoes of Genghis Khan? I think this whole area will give us a desert-like feel.
Altai, where we'll reach today, Altai, is the beginning of Gobi Desert. Gobi Desert is huge. We will go there.
But those will be our last rides here in Mongolia. What's the difference? This one is 92 red and that one is 92 green. We did 250 km yesterday. Let's see how many liters we can fill.
8 liters. That means we covered 250 km in 8 liters yesterday. Yes, this is 500 and that is 5000. Almost 1 liter for $1.
We have taken this off-road route from asphalt so that we can go towards this beautiful lake. This orange one? Thank you. This is a small village. And this is the orange cafe.
It's called Darby. Let's see if we can get something to eat here. If there is a supermarket, we can get something from there. Looks like we are gonna have a nice meal here. I was not expecting to get Halal food here. But as soon as I entered, there was a board in front of me.
So I thought why not take advantage of it. It is very difficult on the road. Especially when you travel in such countries.
Where the food is difficult. There are still chances in cities. It was very difficult for me to find anything to eat there. But we are lucky here. We have such beautiful looking rice and meat. Plus fries.
But I have seen that people eat cold fries here. In other places, it would have been slightly heated. But here it is completely cold. As if you took it out of the freezer. This is the local tea.
It is a little different tea. I got some water from here. Let's enjoy our meal. It is good.
We paid 15,000 for it. That is about $5. The tea cost us 1000. $0.30 Water is about $0.70. I mean dollar cents.
It is good. What an empty country... It's like you are riding in a deserted place. No one is there to be seen.
You just keep driving for kilometers and kilometers. You don't see anything. I think we have done almost 325 kilometers on the way.
We passed by a couple of villages and 3 petrol stations. where we have mostly stopped. There is nothing else than that.
Every now and then you get to see a yurt. More than people, I have seen horses, cows, buffaloes, sheep and goats have been seen here. Nevertheless, this is the main highway here. And it is deserted. I mean, look how silent it is here. And we don't know how many more kilometers we need to cover, in order to reach a petrol station.
So we have to manage our petrol a little. I was going a little fast, but now I need to slow down a bit. Because, we have to drive at least another 100-125 km any way. And we are down to half the tank. That's why, need to go slow.
Why do you run away? I came here for you. The sun has set very early here. And as we are about to reach the city, we have come across a mountain pass here.
I am shivering with cold. We were enjoying the warm weather back there. I think the city is in front of us. And it will be a maximum of 10 kilometers.
We are starting to see the colors of the city. I think this is the airport here. And the city is further ahead. I'd like to take a look at the navigation as we reach a petrol station.
This city is at an altitude like Olgi. That's why it is quite cold here. I think there is a Buddhist stupa in front of us.
So this could be a Buddhist city. We are slowly moving towards the Buddhist cities from the Muslim cities. There is also a restaurant with it. There are big cars here too.
We might not be able to get this one. Let's ask first. Otherwise, we will have to see.
This is the problem of coming here late. And there are too many tours as well. Hello. How are you? Do you have a room available? No room? Is there any other hotel nearby? I don't want any problems this late in the evening. There are many cars here. It seems to be a very popular hotel.
Mostly tourists come here. There is another biker here. Actually, these small cities are not visible on booking.com or other websites. If they have a room or not...
There were 1-2 hotels in Olgi. There are many options in Ulaanbaatar. Hello. Do you have a room available? For one person? How much is it? Check-in is done in the hotel. And this is our room.
It is very clean and open. There are two beds here. There is a kettle in the middle.
We are gonna need it. There is an attached washroom. There is hot water..
We will sleep comfortably here. I asked her for a single bed room. But she told me it was not available. She was asking 1,20,000 for this room.
But then reduced it to 1,00,000. If you convert it, it will be 33-34 USD. If we had searched a little more, it would have been $5-7 cheaper. But I was too tired for that.
And decided to stay here for the night. We have to go out to eat. It will be a big struggle. Let's see where we get food. I am in the main street of the city for dinner.
I hope we will find something here. I keep searching on Google Maps for a restaurant. The restaurant next to the hotel we went to earlier was closed. Let's see where we get food. Earlier I was talking about the kettle. I got happy to see that because ...
If we don't get a restaurant, I have noodles. I will make that at least. This is the main plaza of the city center. Just like we saw in the last city. It is very beautiful. Kids are playing here.
It is 8.20 pm here. It is not too late. Our navigation is telling us that there should be a restaurant after this corner. There are a few bakeries here. I think we will have a good breakfast.
Let's go to the restaurant. I think it is closed. Let's try.
The supermarket next to it, is open though. The door is open. This is the restaurant. I was very hungry yesterday.
I walked all over the city. That's why I brought my camera today. Normally I don't make videos like this. It is easy to find restaurants in cities.
But it is difficult for me here. I haven't faced such issues in this tour yet. Let's go back now. There are a few cafes and restaurants on the other side. If they are not open, we will go back to the room, after grabbing something from the supermarket.
All the cafes and restaurants that Google is showing me are on this road. It is deserted. There is no one here. There is a coffee and food shop. Let's see. Drunk people are standing outside.
It looks like a bar. You must be wondering what I am showing you. I have experienced this in some places. I didn't record it before.
But I thought I should do it as an experiment. At least you have an idea. How much you have to struggle in some places, even for food.
There is another restaurant in front of me. But this a restaurant and karaoke bar. I am not sure if we are going to get anything here. But we will try anyway.
So finally we got food here. And you can see the noodles in front of us. And there is tomato sauce with it. And there are some vegetables in it.
It was not on the menu. But I requested them through Google Translate. They said okay, you will get it.
So this cost us approximately $5. But I hope it will be good to eat. Whatever it is, we will eat it.
We are hungry. I hope you liked the vlog. And if you do, don't forget to Like, Subscribe and Share. Remember us in your prayers.
See you in the next vlog. Allah Hafiz.
2025-01-15 17:08