Since our plans for the next year(s) are not yet certain and I am not able to sell the car in Mongolia without paying a huge amount of customs duties, I decided to find someone to take it back home. I wrote a post in a globetrotter Facebook group and was overwhelmed by the number of responses. Within a day or so I had around 10 offers to take the car back to Europe. Finally I decided to entrust the car to Mark’s and Walter’s care, two adventurists I know from my African trips. They have just arrived in Ulanbaator and found the car in good condition. I hope to see it again in around 2 months, the trip back is not on the shortest path either. Mark has taken his family, his wife and two sons 1.5 and 6, on the trip, Walter a friend of his. Full house!
You can follow the trip back (in Hungarian with rather poor automatic translation to English by Facebook) on Mark’s facebook page.

It was tougher than expected, but an unforgettable adventure. We are heading to the airport.

We drank fresh horse milk (tastes like sweet cream)

saw a Mongolian family moving, the yurt:

and the horses:

In the afternoon we visited Chinggis Khan’s statue in the East of Ulanbaatar, the worlds biggest equestrian statue:

Walking out of Chinggis Khan’s crotch was a worthy conclusion of our trip:

In the evening I took the car to the family of a colleague of mine, they will take care of it until we decide what to do next.

The taxi ride back to the hotel was the funniest taxi rides I ever had. In Mongolia there are no taxis, you flag down regular cars, agree on the price and jump on the back seat. I had the pleasure to ride with two ladies who were singing Mongolian songs all the way.