CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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The stops in between: Gol Mod II, Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a and back through Gol Mod II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The deer here are made of stone and are about three thousand years old. Across the grasslands of northern Mongolia stand granite pillars carved with leaping deer, their long antlers streaming back like flames or birds' wings, with sometimes a belt, a knife or a pair of earrings scratched below. These are deer stones, raised by Bronze Age herders in the second and early first millennium BC, and Mongolia has more than a thousand of them, most in the northern provinces. Nobody is sure what they meant. One theory says they were memorials to dead warriors, another that they were altars where the soul was carried to the sky by the deer. Around them are rings and rectangles of stone and low mounds called khirigsuur, burials of the same people.
Read the complete Bronze Age complex Site with Deer Stones a write-up.
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Bronze Age complex Site with Deer Stones a is where the day begins. Next is Gol Mod II.
Gol Mod II lies in the open valleys of central Mongolia, and the first thing to know is that there is no road to it in the sense most riders mean. You reach it on tracks across the steppe, past herders' gers and grazing horses, and then the tombs appear: a field of low mounds and earthworks, and at its heart a huge square structure with a long ramp, the grave of a member of the Xiongnu elite.
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Gol Mod II comes up 29 km in. Next is Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a.
Out on the steppe of central Mongolia, there are stone monuments that have stood for around three thousand years. Deer stones are tall granite slabs, sometimes taller than a man, carved with images of flying deer, their long antlers sweeping back along the stone, along with belts, tools, and a sun and moon. They were erected in the Late Bronze Age, roughly between the fifteenth and seventh centuries BC, by nomadic herders who also built stone mounds and square fenced burials known as khirigsuur. The stones seem to mark graves of important people, and the deer motif has been interpreted as a vehicle for the soul to travel to the sky, though nobody knows exactly.
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59 km in you reach Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a. Next is back through Gol Mod II.
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Read the complete Gol Mod II write-up.
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back through Gol Mod II, late in the day. Next is Bronze Age complex Site with Deer Stones a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bronze Age complex Site with Deer Stones a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bronze Age complex Site with Deer Stones a. That is the ride.
Bronze Age complex Site with Deer Stones a → Gol Mod II is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gol Mod II → Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a → back through Gol Mod II is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gol Mod II → Bronze Age complex Site with Deer Stones a is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.