Trans Siberian Explorer

 

Day 1: Your Ulaan Baatar airport transfer will take you directly to our joining hotel, ready for an early start tomorrow. Today you will meet your crew for your tour briefing and welcome dinner.
Day 2: Receiving our bikes, it’s a short ride today out to the towering Chinggis Khan statue before returning to Ulaan Baatar.
Day 3: Leaving the Mongolian capital, we ride due north, towards the Russian border and stay overnight at Darkhan.
Day 4: We cross into Siberia, Russia today and the landscape immediately becomes forested until reaching tonight’s destination of the once closed city of Ulan Ude on the Trans-Siberian Highway.
Day 5: Riding the Trans-Siberian Highway west we will get our first glimpses of the mighty Lake Baikal as we hug the shoreline for some time until we reach the beautiful Irkutsk, the de-facto capital of Siberia.
Day 6: Today we take an excursion to UNESCO listed Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest freshwater lake on earth. We can spend the warm evening twilight hours exploring the bars restaurants of Irkutsk, a wonderful Siberian city full of 19th-century buildings
Day 7:Leaving Irkutsk, we ride north-west and into wild, rural Russia. We will be among the handful of people who travel the Trans-Siberian here, everyone else is on the train! We overnight at a small Russian community of Tulun, this is the real Russia.
Day 8: Back on the Trans-Siberian we continue west through rolling hills, farmlands and forests until we reach the halfway point of this ride at Krasnoyarsk, but also the Trans-Siberian Highway, that stretches from Vladivostok to Moscow.
Day 9: Today we cross the beautiful Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains on our way to the old coal mining city of Kemerovo with its stunning ploschad, or square, with many beautiful museums, theatres and parks.
Day 10: We leave the Trans- Siberian Highway and ride south-west via the lonely back roads of the southwestern region of Siberia. We arrive at Barnaul, scenically located on the banks of the Ob River.
Day 11: Today we leave the big lights behind and ride into an absolutely stunning Altay region of Russia, a region of pine covered mountains and vast valleys. We spend the next two nights at the 5-star Altay Resort.
Day 12: Today is a day off the bikes but if you are desperate for your motoring fix, quad bikes and ATVs are available to explore the beautiful region. Perhaps a massage, spa, fishing or trekking, the options are endless.
Day 13: Departing the Altay Resort, we enter the incredible Altay Mountains, a landscape of towering snow-capped peaks, turquoise rivers and glaciers that come up to the roadside. We ride the Chuysky Trakt, named as one of the 10 best road trips on earth!
Day 14: Continuing through the mighty Altay, along the Chuysky Trakt, we are surprised to enter a landscape of Savannah covered plateau, bordered by snow-capped peaks in the distance for our last night in Russia in Kosh Agach
Day 15: We cross back into Mongolia today and ride onto Bayan – Olgii in the shadow of the might Altay which we have just crossed, staying overnight at a wonderful traditional Mongolian ger camp.
Day 16: Leaving our bikes in Bayan Olgii we board a plane to take an included flight back to the Mongolian capital of Ulaan Baatar for our final night of this epic ride.
Departure day: Spend some time in Ulaan Baatar or fly home, the choice is yours.