Ulaan Baatar!!!        Mongolia, 1st of june 2005

We wake up with the “ Please fasten your seat belt, we are heading down towards Ulaan Baatar”.  The endless steppe is unraveling itself and here and there, we can see yurts and herds of yaks. Where are we going? It seems that there is no cities, no sign of urban life at all…

Rapidly, we take possession of what will be our homes for the next months: everything is there, and seems to be fine. New smells, new faces, we just opened a door to a new world; we needed this for a long time.  With conviction, we talk about this gene for adventure, which has created a real addiction for us!

The kindness the curiosity and the determination of the Mongols impressed us since the first moment. Taxi! Taxi! No thanks; we have our own mean of transportation! First pedal push, first look at the immensity of the steppe, first smile to a child in the street. Of course, from the sky, we could not see how this city is changing, how modernity seems to hardly cohabit with tradition.    One pedal push, two and here we go!