We continued our journey through Mongolia from the beautiful lake in our last post.

Our destination was the famous Khuvsgul Lake, one of the biggest lakes on earth.

On the way, we made interesting discoveries. On every mountain pass, there were religious sites like these.

And of course, there were Mongolians making their way on the off-road tracks with all kinds of vehicles. This one was transporting a whole yurt with the complete household of the family, …

… and some calves tied on top of it all.

This was my favorite beer in Mongolia.

On our way, we made it to another big, big lake, and Marcel took some shots and videos with his drone.

We split up and went a bit faster ahead because we had a date at Khuvsgul Lake.

The roads were… interesting. The paved roads were often very nice and we could get along faster on them, but all of a sudden there were very deep potholes you really, really want to avoid. Axle-breaker level.

We found a nice spot by another lake on the way and met some more friendly Mongolians. These bikes and of course the Toyota Prius are everywhere in Mongolia.

A beautiful sunset at that small lake. And we were still impressed by how green it was in that part of Mongolia.

And the beautiful birds. Especially the vultures were impressive and huge! I’d say standing like this, they measured about 80 centimeters. And once they took off, you could see their enormous wings.

This lake was so beautiful as well. And Racki especially loved that there were proper trees around.

This is the ordinary Mongolian countryside off-road track. Plenty of opportunities to break your car. But there were never crazy off-road obstacles. It was more like a marathon: hundreds of off-road track kilometers, millions of impacts on the car. We liked driving these off-road tracks through what felt to us like nowhere, but they were tiring as well.

From further away, these tracks often look like that. Plenty of opportunities…

This spot we absolutely loved as well. A river, trees, green. Racki and I loved it, and it showed us that Mongolia is not only steppe.