Cycling Mongolia - A bikepacking journey through the wildest country on earth

[@StarEssences]

Mongolia is a beautiful country because it is not over cluttered with people and buildings; One can begin to see the natural REAL beauty in what God created in its' raw form.

[@weridebikesplaces]

🙏

[@jamesmckenna5993]

Amazing I love Mongolia 🇲🇳 would love to be able visit that country and camp

[@weridebikesplaces]

It's some of the best camping we've experienced in the whole world! Such an awesome place 😁

[@user-riverjoljil]

저의 꿈입니다. ^^

[@weridebikesplaces]

​@@user-riverjoljilit's an amazing place, I hope you will make it there 😊

[@teachemwell4961]

so beautyful ...keep on filming

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you! It's such an amazing country

[@derekskinner6255]

What a great video!! I find this kind of thing - touring remote, wild places - fascinating. I don't think that it will be something I shall do, but well done to those, like yourselves, who do. Thanks for sharing your story, safe travelling in the future.

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks so much! We love sharing our adventures, and glad you enjoyed watching.

[@shaftsoflight9161]

Just before even watching it I would like to thank people like you who reminds us what we are here for! Cheers!

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you! It's our pleasure to share these types of adventures with people. Hope you enjoyed it and are planning an adventure of your own 🙂

[@jonashubalekwhiskyandthewild]

Brilliant, what an adventure! It looks like a beautiful country with nice and hospitable people. Food looks delicious too and wild camps... amazing! Well done!

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you! It was such an epic adventure. The most beautiful country with the best wild camping we've riden through for sure 😊

[@massimolombardi1569]

Fantastica avventura, un viaggio indimenticabile,una natura meravigliosa e incontaminata, un luogo dove l'ospitalità è speciale.In spazi sconfinati e spettacolari,in panorami, orizzonti, e visioni sconvolgenti il sogno della vita diventa sorriso.Bellissima la vostra passione,stupenda la Mongolia,con fiumi, laghi, cavalli,e persone sincere il tempo si è fermato....Max da Sora ciociaria

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks so much, 😊. Glad you enjoyed watching, it really is a an incredible place

[@narmandakhtumur3349]

Thank you 😊 💓 ❤😊❤😊.

[@massimolombardi1569]

@@narmandakhtumur3349 Grazie infinite

[@NomadLifeKiwi]

We've loved watching this series, and you've inspired us to try cycling back to NZ from England next year!

[@weridebikesplaces]

So happy to hear that! It's been such a good adventure, and I'm sure you'll love it if you make the trip too. This is our first big cycling trip, and we weren't sure we'd make it across Europe when we started, but now we don't ever want to stop

[@JamesRobinson-vd4bt]

Great stuff guys!

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks James!

[@Jar4Jack]

Absolutely amazing, the wide open range of pure bliss. Safe travels and God bless.

[@weridebikesplaces]

Pure bliss describes it perfectly!

[@Panos835]

That must have been an amazing trip - thanks for sharing

[@weridebikesplaces]

It really was, somewhere we'll be back to for sure. Thanks for watching

[@colinwellman9480]

Just found this video and after watching it all I can say is ; Brilliant! Beautiful scenery and nicely filmed with a decent commentary. I've subscribed and will take a look at any other videos you've got on your channel. Thanks for sharing your adventure it was very entertaining.

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks Colin! It was such an amazing place to explore. Appreciate the kind words on the video, we are still new to making them and always trying to improve, looking forward to sharing more of our adventures as we continue.

[@NiteshSharma-dj3kr]

Woww! Wonderfully video all along 😍 I loved it. The landscapes were very beautiful and heavenly. Very well shot and edited. You deserve a lot more audience. Good luck for your next adventures 🎉 You both are Goals 😊 I am planning to do the same in my country INDIA. I will be travelling all over India from March 2024 onwards. You guys should also come to India for the best unique memorable experience of your life. It's a different world in terms of diversity, landscapes, culture, religion and tradition. Please come to India. Your channel will grow exponentially very fast too. Thanks!

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you so much! We have actually been to India, we rode down the west coast and ha E a video from there too! We would definitely love to come back and see more though as we absolutely loved it there, it was so beautiful and the people were amazing to us 🤩

[@bvcs2632]

We enjoyed your great post. You are a great, friendly couple. Thank you for visiting my beautiful home and sharing it with us

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you so much for inviting us into your beautiful home! It was such a pleasure to meet you and your family 😊

[@bvcs2632]

@@weridebikesplaces ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lonefemaleadventure]

Wow, what an incredible place! The camping looks amazing. Kudos to you for keeping your camera and drone etc charged up enough to make the vid :)

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks for watching! It really is incredible, best camping from any country we've been for sure. Battery was the hardest thing to manage, when we go back we will take a solar charger

[@NomadLifeKiwi]

We took sunsaver fold-up solar panels on our tour last year. Kept all our things including drone charged up on sunny days. @@weridebikesplaces

[@schoenackerlaurent]

beautiful video, thanks !!

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@Laldinqadir]

Thanks for the amazing, video

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it 😀

[@batsaihanbaasanjav]

What a great video.

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you 😊

[@timothyvanpelt_cyclist]

Looks amazing! Gotta go there too one day...

[@weridebikesplaces]

Our favourite place to ride and camp by far. Looking forward to getting back there ourselves 😉

[@tonypaddler]

Great video and very well done, Mongolia is a place I've always wanted to cycle in. I was surprised to hear about the drunken gang though 🙁 Cheers and safe travels 🚴‍♂️👍

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you! It's for sure the best place we've cycled. Unfortunately alcohol is a problem throughout the country in the small towns, but the town's aren't what you go there for.

[@user-zm9gc1kt8b]

Wow! What a mind-blowing journey. Respect guys, thanks for this amazing video

[@weridebikesplaces]

Cheers! Its such an epic place. Glad you enjoyed the vid 👍

[@fiets_en_verwonder]

Amazing!

[@weridebikesplaces]

It's the most amazing place we've been 😊

[@Himalayan_mysteries]

wonderful ❤

[@weridebikesplaces]

😊

[@LordBikealot]

That looked bliss

[@weridebikesplaces]

It really was. We will be back for sure

[@chtsog]

Great!

[@weridebikesplaces]

Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@ridhuanuniversal1737]

This is good job.iam the fruit guys from malaysia..god bless u guys..waiting malaysia and indonesia trip vlog.❤ love u guys😊

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you so much, was so nice to meet you! Hope you enjoy the Malaysia vid when it comes out, your bananas are the best 😀 ❤️

[@ridhuanuniversal1737]

@@weridebikesplaces thanks guys👍😆

[@andrewharris1837]

Amazing countryside and seems you chose great summer weather.shame U not introduce your travelling companion with just shots of her back on bike😮

[@weridebikesplaces]

Its the most amazing countryside we've seen. As much as I try get my beautiful travelling companion to talk to the camera, she is too shy to do it

[@MrAzizme888]

منغوليا بلد مدهش احب فيه السهول المفتوحه و خيام الرعاه

[@weridebikesplaces]

Such a beautiful country 🙌

[@narmandakhtumur3349]

Thank you 😊 💓 ☺️ 💗

[@batka6255]

Welcome to our beautiful country! You guys should`ve tried Khorkhog! Subscribed.

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you! We will definitely be back! It's been our favourite country, so we're looking forward to coming back and exploring some more 😃

[@tadjinker]

OH ! you spent a night in Uubulan ! I have family that lives there !

[@weridebikesplaces]

Oh cool. It's such a wild and awesome place. We will be returning for sure!

[@pstolee]

I am super jealous. Great stories. I hope to be going there sometime soon. Just to give you a little bit of unsolicited help, I noticed that your videos quality is too over exposed. much like mine were when I first bought my gopro. You may be using something else but I quickly learned that the ''factory presets'' were presets and must be changed. If you have GoPro, you might want to go to EV Comp and change it to -0.5 and play with the white balance between 5500 and 6500. I put colour as FLAT to be able to manipulate it in Post processing . I also sharpness at low. Anyhow, you might want to play with settings as the factory presets on my camera produced some awful images. As you get better (and I am a beginner), sun, cloud, snow and rain will require changes in the presets. It is worth it to play around with it. All that to say that I have really enjoyed your video and can't wait to go.

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you! Other than the drone, this was all filmed on my phone, which is why it's not great quality. And I know the drone stuff could have been better, direct sun made it worse for sure, and I was just learning to use it. Thanks for the tips though. The drone went for a swim in Vietnam, and now we just film with a GoPro (videos from Malaysia onwards..) cheers

[@pstolee]

@@weridebikesplaces The drone shots were great! So I guess it was the phone. And again, they are the factory settings on the phone and not your fault but those settings actually distort ''the perception '' of what we see . That is why I do post production: to capture what I felt. Great job guys!

[@weridebikesplaces]

@@pstolee cheers. In reality I'd love to have a proper editing setup, I do it all on my phone, and am hoping it's getting better each video. Thanks for the tips and for watching

[@rowdave10]

Thank you for an inspiring story. Just one question: where do you find the wood for campfires??😀

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks for watching 🙏 it's always just from sticks that we'd find around the ground, sometimes washed up on the river banks. It was nice being able to have fires in Mongolia because most places we camp we try to keep a low profile

[@eagleleap_97]

Do you sleep in Tent or hotels . I'm curious to know

[@weridebikesplaces]

We sleep in the tent that you see in the video, almost all of the time.. and about once a week we sleep in a hotel

[@lvesilva]

Mongolia is completely bare, without forests! 😮

[@weridebikesplaces]

A lot of it is yeah! Such an awesome place, we'd love to go back and explore more

[@Bikepacking]

Very well filmed .. is there a reason you decided on a traditional cycle touring setup than a bikepacking setup for those dirt trails

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you! We are on a world tour, so have the touring setup because of that. But also, due to the distances between towns, and cold nights, we needed every pannier to carry all the kit we needed to survive. I'd love to go back with a lighter setup for a shorter amount of time though

[@Bikepacking]

@@weridebikesplaces how many days food you carry and how many liters of water you carry i guess you carry all your camera gear and editing equipment too what temp rating is your sleeping sorry so many question but dailing in my world tour setup as i type

[@weridebikesplaces]

No worries happy to answer any questions 😊 In Mongolia we'd carry 5-6 days worth of food at a time, and about 15L water between us, as well as a water filter. Our sleeping bags are 5 degree Celsius, but were not warm enough in Mongolia. We've been around Asia for all this year, and usually only carry 2 days food max, as there is food everywhere, and usually around 8L water as also places to fill up everywhere. All my filming and editing is done on my phone, but we also have the drone, and tablet computer, as well as kindles, cables, and with spare tubes and parts everything just adds up.. We're thinking of putting out a gear list video soon, but if you've got any other questions don't hesitate to ask

[@Bikepacking]

@@weridebikesplaces "I appreciate your intriguing setup, and I'm definitely interested in seeing your gear list video. I've managed to streamline my equipment to carry 9 liters of water, 2 liters of fuel for the multi-fuel stove, a 4-season sleeping bag rated for temperatures as low as 0°F (-18°C), enough food to sustain me for about 7 days before resupply, camera gear for editing on my iPad Pro with LumaFusion, a couple of external hard drives, two cameras (one for primary footage and another for B-roll), and a drone. For power, I rely on a 60-watt solar panel and battery banks with a total capacity of 40,000 mAh. I've also packed appropriate 4-season clothing, essential tools, spare parts, and, of course, a comprehensive first aid kit. The challenging part was fitting all this gear on my bike without traditional panniers, opting for more of a bikepacking setup to explore single-track trails. I'm just putting the finishing touches on it now."

[@weridebikesplaces]

Wow that's impressive to get all that in without panniers! I think it should be you doing the packing video!! I do make sure to have a bit of spare room in my panniers for times we'd like to carry pre cooked meals we've bought, or bulky packs of chips etc. And we've got too many clothes, but you live and learn..

[@sharmahz]

Super hero

[@weridebikesplaces]

🙌

[@sandercohen5543]

Looking at this landscape, you can start to see why the steppe peoples of central asia never were much for the sedentary lifestyle XD

[@weridebikesplaces]

It's an awesome landscape to explore

[@dotadojardiner8893]

Beautiful trip, stunning landscape, with amazingly friendly and welcoming people. So I was surprised to see that you had locked your bikes together at 21:36 when you seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. Why is that?

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thank you. Yes it's an absolutely amazing place, and the people we met were extremely friendly. But we just always lock our bikes no matter where we are out of habit, just for that one in a million possibility that something could happen. We've got the lock so might as well.. thanks for watching so closely!

[@dotadojardiner8893]

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I completely understand, after all if you loose your bikes then you are (to put it as politely as I can) screwed. It just made me wonder if things were not as safe as they seemed on the surface. Can I ask if there has been any place/country where you haven't felt safe or comfortable? I would also like to say, great filming and editing, it's a difficult and time consuming thing to do well like you have. You have a new subscriber. @@weridebikesplaces

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks for your kind words! Still learning the filming and editing, so any encouragement is always welcome 😁 Unfortunately in Mongolia there is a bit of an alcohol problem in some of the rural town's, so when we were near them we would take a bit of extra care with our things. We've never felt truly unsafe anywhere I don't think, but are always most cautious when on the outskirts of towns, and try to camp as far from them as possible

[@toocooltobecruel]

I saw a Ted talk from a woman who walked around the world and in Mongolia someone came in her tent and r*ped her. Can happen anywhere though. Especially if you’re a solo female traveler.

[@BBQPeanut]

1 month for 700km, was it purposefully slow, lots of mini hiking trips on the side, poor weather, medical issues, mech issues? Would 2 weeks be too rushed?

[@weridebikesplaces]

Ha yeah it was purposefully slow. We decided to do less km's each day, to enjoy relaxed mornings and long afternoons at all the amazing camp spots. Time spent fishing in the rivers and sitting by the fire was often just as good as the riding. 2 weeks would be a great time, any amount of time exploring Mongolia would be great. We plan on spending more than a month next time

[@davidhudson2209]

Hello looking at doing 4 weeks next august, very inspired now. How did you get back to ulaanbaatar? Happy to ride slow or would riding back be easy in that time. What gas for cooking and where purchased, readily available or limit hot cooking? Do you have a route or map by any chance, at least putting the towns on the video really helps see where you went. Thank you in advance, it looks so amazing!

[@Danil.Kashapov]

Hi, tell me how is the mobile connection in this country? Is the coverage good?

[@weridebikesplaces]

It's not very good. Most areas don't have it, but we expected this. It is sometimes surprising the areas you do get service in though, like sometimes just in the middle of nowhere.. we save maps for offline to use for navigation

[@Danil.Kashapov]

@@weridebikesplaces Thx bro!

[@bikepackingg]

Hello friend, I don't know the language. In which season should I tour Mongolia? I am thinking of going 1000 km south of Ulaanbaatar next year.

[@weridebikesplaces]

Hi! We were there in August, and this is the best time to travel there. Other months it can be extremely cold.

[@ivandimitrovivanov7584]

Were there dogs?? With all this herds.. how you dealt with the dogs?

[@weridebikesplaces]

There were some Sheppard dogs, but they would just run over to us barking, then stop 10 meters away, never really threatening, just wanted us to know they were in charge of that area so we kept riding 👍

[@ivandimitrovivanov7584]

@@weridebikesplaces thank you

[@Tysonnayak]

New Subscriber 🙋‍♂️. How many mile would you travel per a day?

[@weridebikesplaces]

Hi! In Mongolia we would only travel around 30miles per day, and would enjoy long mornings and afternoons at our camp spots. In other countries we usually travel 40-50 miles per day. We like to take it slow and enjoy every bit of the countries we are riding through

[@pgpagaia]

Amazing. So calming. You guys do it thr right way. Not obsessing about expensive gear or covering miles. Just ride your bikes and enjoy thr experience. Really nice that those people invited you in their homes. Looks so nice having a nice camp by the fire and with a clear river. Even aome company from animals. Thank you so much dor the video. Really enjoyable to watch.

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks so much! Really glad you enjoyed the video. It was an unbelievable experience there, and yeah so good to be able to have a campfire by the river with animals wandering around, and all the friendly people. It's somewhere we will be going back to for sure

[@eagleleap_97]

Make video on bagpacking also

[@weridebikesplaces]

Will do soon

[@MariusMustermann-rk2lb]

🦦

[@kazisharif95]

send me your route plan please

[@weridebikesplaces]

Hi, there is a link to our route in the video description 👍

[@BasicStealthcamping]

fantastic journey guys, glad you had the opportunity to experience such a landscape and culture!

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks! It was an awesome trip, favourite country to ride through for sure

[@gonebikeabout]

You're giving us ideas. Thanks for sharing 😊and happy travels. Kurt and Darina

[@weridebikesplaces]

Thanks for watching! Enjoy your trip 😁

[@mooseknuckle8334]

How does this have less than 5k views?

[@weridebikesplaces]

😂 thank you! We're hoping it gets more! It was an unbelievable trip

[@mooseknuckle8334]

@@weridebikesplaces One of a lifetime I'm sure

[@weridebikesplaces]

It was so good we are hoping to get back there again one day 🤞