CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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It goes by way of Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a, Gol Mod I and back through Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 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.
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Bronze Age complex Site with Deer Stones a is where the day begins. Next is Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a.
The grassland north of the Khangai range does not look like a museum, and that is its quality. Rolling green hills run off to the horizon under a vast sky, herds of horses and yaks drift across the slopes, and here and there a lone grey stone rises from the grass. A Bronze Age complex of this kind, with deer stones and burial mounds, belonged to the nomadic herders who lived on the steppe in the second and first millennia BC. Their world was horses, bows and open sky, and their monuments are simple, bold and without any written record.
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Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a comes up 76 km in. Next is Gol Mod I.
Gol Mod sits in the open grass country of central Mongolia, where the land rolls away in long folds beneath an enormous sky and the only landmarks are herders' white felt tents, gers, and the occasional lonely mountain. The place is known to archaeologists for its cemeteries of the Xiongnu, the nomadic confederation that dominated the steppe two thousand years ago and rivalled Han China, and the graves of their elite are found in valleys like this.
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151 km in you reach Gol Mod I. Next is back through Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a.
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Read the complete Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a write-up.
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back through Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a, 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 → Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a → Gol Mod I is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Gol Mod I → back through Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a → Bronze Age complex Site with Deer Stones a is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.