About to depart on the morning of the 2nd day on the bikes.

Mike and Steve in sand dunes of northern Gobi

Swapping bikes for camels - but only for a short time.

Countryside family at Erdene Zuu monastery in Kharkhorin 

Mongolian contorsionist

Break at the top of a pass looking back over Naiman Nuur

Riverside stop with some ger families while Rachael's puncture fixed

Baby yak in the river

We arrived back in New Zealand on Sunday 21 July after a very successful Mongolia Tour for 2013.  Everything went quite smoothly this year, amazing!  No drowned or rolled support vehicles - not knowing what has happened to our crew.  There were still a few self-inflicted rider injuries, broken bones among the list.  Fortunately none of it was life-threatening just a few weeks of healing required.
Rather than write a whole lot about the tour I'm just going to put up a few photos today and a few more in the following days.
Angela