Mineral-rich Mongolia is awakening and the time is right to experience that magnificent vast and silent land as it is, rather than what it will be in the not-too-distant future. Michael Burton and Mid Life Adventures took a group to ride across the empire of Genghis Khan.
The world has changed significantly since I started adventure riding nearly 22 years ago. But preparing for this trip across Mongolia and the experience gained would be exactly as it was when Genghis Khan ruled that nation. I had little doubt, if we were to make the same journey in 20 years, the difference would be that the showers would work and the toilet wouldn’t be a hole in the ground in the middle of the steppes…and we’d be riding electric bikes, not fire-breathing KTMs and Huskies.