Unsere "Instrumente": Ein "Schlagzeug" und ein "Kontrabass" Our "Instruments": One "drumset" and one "contrabass" |
Unser Gepäckhaufen Our pile of luggage |
Einblick in unser Abteil Insight in our cabin |
Typische mongolische Landschaft zieht vorbei Typical mongolian landscape passes by |
"Auf Wiedersehen" zu den Schweizer Radfahrern "Good bye" to the cyclists from Switzerland |
Unser einelner Waggon an einer riesen Diesellok in Nauschki Our single waggon attached to a big diesel locomotive in Nauschki |
Wir
halten in Nauschki, dem Grenzort auf der russischen Seite. Dort
können wir erst einmal für 2 Stunden den Zug verlassen und
schlendern durch das kleine Örtchen. In Nauschki steigen auch 2
schweizer Radfahrer aus, die (fast) jeden Kilometer seit ihrem Start
in Basel mit dem Rad zurückgelegt haben – Ziel Tokio. Dagegen
fühlen wir uns wie Freizeitradler. Zurück am Bahnsteig ist unser
Waggon mittlerweile von allen anderen Wagen abgekoppelt, wir lungern
herum und machen Fotos. Leider wird Steffi mit ernster Miene von
einem Offiziellen aufgefordert die soeben gemachten Bilder vom Zug
wieder zu löschen. Jetzt freut sie sich erst recht, Russland, das
Land der unfreundlichsten Uniformierten wieder zu verlassen. Wir
steigen alle wieder ein und warten auf die Grenzpolizei und den Zoll.
Die Kontrolle verläuft in militärischer Manier aber ohne Probleme.
An unseren einzelnen Wagen wird jetzt eine große Diesellock
angekoppelt die uns die 40 Kilometer über die Grenze in die Mongolei
nach Sukhbaatar zieht. Dort eine ähnliche, wenn auch etwas
freundlichere Prozedur mit den mongolischen Grenzbeamten. Wieder
mussten wir aussteigen und hatten nochmals 1 Stunde Aufenthalt (in
der der Waggon an einen langen mongolischen Zug angehangen wurde)
bevor es endlich weiter in Richtung Ulaan Baatar geht. Die Fahrt geht
durch die Nacht und am frühen Morgen kommen wir in der Hauptstadt
der Mongolei an.
Ankunft mit Morgensonne in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolei Arrival in the morning sun in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia |
98.
Tag (26.08.): Irkutsk - Sljudjanka
99.Tag
(27.08.): Ulan-Ude- Zagustaj - Gusinoe ozero - Nauschki-
Suchbataar (Mongolei)
100.Tag
(28.08.): Ulaan Baatar
At the next day we
clean our bicycles in front of the hostels door (for the first time
on the travel) – urgently needed and triggered by the mud tour we
had in the beginning of this week. We again pack everything together,
are buying food, cook and prepare for our train travel to Ulaan
Baatar, Mongolia.
In the afternoon we
go to buy a new digital camera for Steffi – we finally decided for
a nice small megazoom (10x optical) camera from Sony. Later we pick up all our luggage and leave the Nerpa hostel finally. It is
only one kilometer downhill to reach the train station. There we meet
the spanish family we know and Christian and Carsten from Cologne
that we know from our Olchon tour too. By chance we all booked the same train,
even the same waggon, to Mongolia. Altogether they want to help that
we get all our bike panniers and the bicycles on the train. Together
with Steffi and Maniolo I disassemble the bicycles to make them as
small as possible that they fit without problems into the cabin. In
the end we wrap them in bed linen – now they look completely
different. In fun we say that one is a “drum set” and the other
is a “contrabass” and we're musicians! All our 5 friends take
some bike panniers with them so that it does not appear so much for
us. In the end getting on the train was very easy – the conductor
let us pass with a smile. The “contrabass” and a view bike
panniers find place in the cabin of Maniolo and Maribel, the
“drumset” and the rest in our cabin. We are very happy being on
the train and celebrate that with a beer – cheers!
In the middle of
the night the train drives along the shore of lake baikal and later
through Ulaan Ude and finally we arrive at the Russian-Mongolian
border (Naushki) in the morning. There we have 2 hours to spend
outside while our car get's disconnected from the rest of the train. Two swiss cyclists are leaving the train here. They have been cycling
almost every kilometer from Basel to this point – destination
Tokio, Japan. Compared to them we feel like “leisure cyclists”.
We do a short walk in the village and back at the platform we hang
around and take some pictures. Unfortunately Steffi is asked from an
official with an angry face to delete her lately done pictures of the
train. Now she is even more happy that we leave the country with the
most unfriendly officials we have been in so far. Everybody has to
get back into the waggon, now the boarder police and the customs do
their check. The check is executed in a military style but without
any trouble for us and our bulky luggage. Now a big diesel locomotive
get's connected to the single waggon and pulls it the 40 km over the
border to the first mongolian settlement Sukhbaatar. Arrived there we
have an equal although friendlier border check to pass. Afterwards we
have to leave the train again and our car get's connected to a long
mongolian train. The ride goes on trough the night to Ulaan Baatar
where we arrive in the early morning.
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