Fowlers Motorcycle Tours

Bike Holidays!
We have arranged 3 great bike touring holidays with Off The Map Tours. Touring Mongolia's Gobi Desert and Mongolia's White Lake and Khorgo Volcano.

You can book either of these tours with www.mongolia.co.uk

Genghis Khan was born in Dadal near to the Siberian border in the north east corner of Mongolia. This is a beautiful area of mountains, forest, lakes and wide rivers. It is also of immense historical significance and we will visit the places where Genghis Khan lived until he became leader of his people and moved his capital to Kharkhorin in Central Mongolia. The first and last days of the trip are on a good new black topped road, but for the rest of the tour we follow rough jeep tracks on packed mud or rock. There may be some river crossings (depends on recent weather conditions), although we travel out of our way to find bridges to cross the big rivers. All nights on tour are spent in the wild, camping in tents.

 

Highlights:

• 1300 km riding, mainly off road in Eastern Mongolia
• Ride to birthplace of Genghis Khan
• Visit the place where Genghis Khan was crowned in the thirteenth century
• Drink from the same spring as Genghis Khan
• See bronze age rock paintings

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You can book either of these tours with www.mongolia.co.uk

 

The Gobi Desert straddling the border between Mongolia and China, is a wild and dramatic place, entirely suitable for motorcycling. Our Yamaha WR bikes are an exciting bike to ride, having plenty of torque, good grip and being lightweight so riding long distances on tricky roads is not too exhausting. We ride on all sorts of roads: asphalt as well as packed mud or gravel tracks with washouts and potholes. All pretty much free of traffic and through some spectacular scenery.

The famous Gobi Desert is not all vast flat steppe under a deep blue sky. There are bizarre rock formations, canyons, the Gurvansaikhan mountain range and sand dunes 100km long, as well as forests of small saxaul trees and other desert vegetation. Apart from a few villages and small towns that we pass through on the way, most of the population have a nomadic lifestyle, frequently moving with their round white felt yurts (“gers”) and herds of camels, goats and horses. This trip is a fascinating cultural experience as well as an off-road bike tour across Mongolia of over one and a half thousand kilometres.

Every night will be spent at ger camps where traditional ger tents have been set up for travellers and have facilities including a ger restaurant, bar, showers and toilet. These will be very welcome at the end of each day, since the Gobi Desert is usually a hot, dusty and windy place.

 

Highlights:

• The Gobi Desert's biggest sand dunes,  100km long and 80 meters high
• Yolyn Am  "Vulture's Mouth Canyon"  in the mountains above the Gobi Desert
• Meeting local nomadic families with herds of camels and horses
• Accommodation in traditional Mongolian gers  (yurts)
• Bizarre granite mountains on the steppe of Middle Gobi

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You can book either of these tours with www.mongolia.co.uk

 

This exciting 1400km trail through the Central Mongolian provinces passes through beautiful and unusual scenery as well as offering the opportunity to observe Mongolia’s nomadic lifestyle and ancient culture. Riding through the small town of Kharkhorin, once the hub of Genghis Khan’s great Mongol Empire, you will visit Erdene Zuu monastery, the former centre of Buddhism in Mongolia.

Dramatic geographical formations such as the volcanic area in Khorgo National Park,  the sandy shores of the White Lake, the river canyon at Chuluut and the massive granite mountain at Khogno Khan are quite spectacular. The ancient sculptures dotted around the countryside are also noteworthy, as is the Taikhir rock at Ikh Tamir, located in the middle of a flat river plain.

Travelling on our Yamaha WR250 trail bikes, sometimes on asphalt roads but usually on rough rocky tracks, you can enjoy the vast open space, big sky and wild landscapes, unspoiled by modern developments. We ride from one ger camp to the next, each camp being located in a place of particular beauty or importance and stay in authentic traditional round felt tents, having facilities on site for your comfort and convenience.

 

Highlights:

• Kharkhorin town where Genghis Khan ruled the Mongol Empire
• Khorgo volcano (extinct)
• White Lake in the Khorgo & Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur National Park
• Accommodation in traditional Mongolia gers  (yurts)
• Erdene Zuu Buddhist monastery

You can download an itinerary of the White Lake - Khorgo Volcano Tour

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You can book either of these tours with www.mongolia.co.uk