CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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105 km from Dashbalbar to Dashbalbar, about 1 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Landscapes of Dauria, Forest steppe part of Daursky SNBR and back through Landscapes of Dauria. It crosses from Mongolia into Russia - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Open steppe, a few shallow lakes and a very large sky: that is the landscape of Dauria, the borderland where eastern Mongolia meets Russia and China. The Chuh-Nuur lakes lie in the Mongolian part of it, a region of rolling grassland dotted with salt-edged basins that fill and shrink with the rains. UNESCO lists the Landscapes of Dauria as a transboundary site, because it is the migration crossroads that matters, not the border drawn across it.
Read the complete Chuh-Nuur Lake cluster write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Chuh-Nuur Lake cluster is where the day begins. Next is Landscapes of Dauria.
Dauria is the great steppe that straddles the border between Russia's Zabaykalsky region and northeastern Mongolia, and it is one of the last places on earth where you can see a grassland ecosystem working on its own terms. UNESCO listed the landscapes of Dauria in 2017 as a joint Russian and Mongolian site, recognising the importance of its steppe, wetlands and wildlife. The scale is vast: rolling grasslands stretching to the horizon, dotted with lakes, under a sky that seems to go on forever.
Read the complete Landscapes of Dauria write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Landscapes of Dauria comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Forest steppe part of Daursky SNBR.
Dauria is the name for the open steppe where Siberia runs into Mongolia and China, and it is one of the last great undisturbed grasslands in Asia. The reserve called Daursky protects a slice of it in the far south of Zabaykalsky Krai, in an area of rolling hills, shallow salt lakes, and a sky that feels twice as large as normal. Forest steppe is the term for the zone where patches of larch and birch push out into the grass, and here the mixture is dry, windy and bright, with long winters of fierce cold and short summers that can be surprisingly hot.
Read the complete Forest steppe part of Daursky SNBR write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Forest steppe part of Daursky SNBR. Next is back through Landscapes of Dauria.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Landscapes of Dauria write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Landscapes of Dauria, late in the day. Next is Chuh-Nuur Lake cluster.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chuh-Nuur Lake cluster write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Chuh-Nuur Lake cluster. That is the ride.
Chuh-Nuur Lake cluster → Landscapes of Dauria is 31 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Landscapes of Dauria → Forest steppe part of Daursky SNBR is 21 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Forest steppe part of Daursky SNBR → back through Landscapes of Dauria is 21 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Landscapes of Dauria → Chuh-Nuur Lake cluster is 31 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.