MONGOLEI EXPEDITION – The online diaries year 2011 – Tanja und Denis Katzer – Expedition & Adventure

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Twelfth summary – Our horse family finds a new home

Eleventh summary – Wild Freedom

Tenth summary – different than planned

Ninth summary – Adventurous march to Tsagaan Nuur, Khatgal and Mörön

Eighth summary – Shock at the spring camp of the Tuvan nomads

Seventh summary – At the limit – Wintering with the Tuvan nomads

Sixth summary – Survival on the white lake

Fifth summary – setting off into Mongolia’s Arctic winter

Fourth summary – Complex preparations for wintering

Third summary – The first adventurous 400 kilometers of riding

Second summary – The first weeks in a yurt

First summary – How it all began

White and black shaman

Farewell to Mogi – Apartment

Back in civilization

Decide to demolish our warehouse

Saying goodbye to Sar makes me sad

Sharga and Bor find new owners

Naraa and Tuya in the best possible hands

A miracle must happen

A year like a human life

I think my ankle is splintered

As if I had sat on a fire jellyfish

Silent birthday

Tenger has survived his colic

Horse meat, a bloody nose and a nocturnal visitor

Hospitality to the point of unconsciousness

Plague and jackpot

Further on to the Selenge River

Dream camp on the Selenge River

Setting off on the last stage

The secret of happiness is freedom

Positive thinking generates positivity

If you think so negatively, you may have to wait even longer for your visa

Unexpected – night-time visit

The last bastion of honesty – Wilder Tenger – I am next to myself

Maggots eat into the wounds

True friends are worth more than all the money in the world – Victims of the flames – Sattelbau

Bilgee’s bizarre ideas

Bilgee arrives eight days later

Lustful stallion – Storm

Naadam, the festival of festivals

Tanja in Mörön

Bitten by a dog – Flooded

As if a vampire had sucked in my life energy

Peaceful island life

At the end of Lake Khuvsgul

The first day alone

Pearl of Mongolia

No photos – Naraa sinks into a bog hole

Only after the loss do we know what we care about him

Storm fronts and wet conditions

All horses gone

Mongolian hospitality

Left out in the rain

Have we hired a moron?

Painted against theft – The only source of light in the village

Stallion attack

I would love to turn his collar upside down

The greatest hunter of all time despite the muzzle

Packing and blowing

Farewell – At windy heights

Last days at Tuwacamp – Called to be a shaman

Organized crime – soon to be civil war? – Bilgee’s low

Land of rapidly changing opinions

Itchy lichen and other reasons why we are visited

Successful mission

Lonely – Blizzard

Forest fires – lost passes – Alone

Bilgee’s plan

Do you miss the old days?

Tribal elder talks about her life

Deeply saddened

Arrival and bad news

Terrible hygiene and thieves

Alone at spring camp

Setting off for the Tuwa spring camp

Dramatic misfortune

Tuya has chosen the world

Abrupt departure? – NGO is against visa extension

Violent kick, blue ice

Massive snowfall – Epileptic seizure

Packing for departure

Unexpected yurt dismantling

Sudden death of the reindeer

Feast of gratitude

Police lining their own pockets – Riches under historical tombs – Spiritual powers punish with death

Successful hunters

Judicial visit to the Tuva camp

Glasses for the hunters – Lost horses

Bilgee’s helping hands

Risky cross-country ride – Eerie-looking taiga

Mental agility and unconditional flexibility

Bilgee’s arrival – Half starved

Back with Ajush

A lifetime of medication? – Reorganization – Mogi the acrobatic high diver – Bilgee’s Tuwa bed

Bilgee’s bumpy start

Monkoo’s favorite toy

Shamanic ritual

Tsaya has to go into intensive care

You are good people – Further travel planning

Mongolian New Year’s Day

Drunk people terrify us

Warming up before the party / Missing the eye by a centimeter / Tsaya suffers from myocarditis

Preparing for Tsagaan Sar – New Year / Mogi misbehaves again / Dangerous trip to the toilet

The path of the jade

After 18 days of arctic cold

An extraordinary birthday

Reindeer caravan

Katzer’s coffee yurt

Origin and escape

Broken taboos, wolves and how to ride a reindeer

Tipi visits or glimpses into the past

Rules of conduct

Violent kick, blue ice

Moving into the tipi – One million

Coughing masonry drill

Into the New Year with a starry sky and sparklers

Cursed by the shaman

Which help is the right one?

Missing reindeer, the bear’s paw and earthquakes

First day with the reindeer nomads

Off to the Tuwa

Give him five minutes to smile

No money no truck

Travel costs suddenly more than twice as high

Wood supply, broken chainsaw and donation

No wood for heating

Is Mogi losing an eye?

There is no time at Tsagaan Nuur

The Tuwa Council votes

Technical super disaster

Visit to the Tuwa

Bewitched by shamans

Two mayors don’t make it easy for us

Not even time for a conversation

He is a good person at heart

Wandan, chainsaw and wood supply

Bitten by a dog

Farewell to our horses

The first day in Tsagaan Nuur

The way over the ice and arrival at the White Lake

Trapped in the labyrinth of ice lakes

Tracks in the snow

Risky river crossings and breaking ice floes

Is the rock cut a gateway to another world?

Mourning for Mogi

Embraced by the taiga

Arrival in the land of wolves

At rocky heights

The icy messenger from Khovsgol Nuur and the divine order

Bitten and kicked

Were the planned daily stages a miscalculation?

Setting off for the coldest region of Mongolia

Bilgee is delirious

Bilgee’s bad mood and sudden death of the cab driver

Prison camp and Bilgee changes his mind

Millions for horse feed and conversations with Mother Earth

How does the equipment and food get to Tsagaan Nuur?

Preparation marathon and exotic TV appearance

From now on, reporting will continue at regular intervals

Are welcomed by the mayor and visit the town’s prison

Complex and highly difficult preparation for wintering in the taiga

Waiting for Bilgee and the horses

Ulzii wants his money

Reach our first stage destination

Ulzii gets too cold

Storm, snow and carried by the energy of the land

Long drinks and a cigar for your birthday

Happy days on the Selenge River

Doubters have little chance of survival in the wilderness

There are no horse thieves at five o’clock in the morning

Difficult pass crossing

Bite of the cold

The reliability of constant change

Ulzii, a spiritual challenge?

Mogi the sheep killer

Mogi’s hunting instinct and traveling with the time machine

Plagued by diarrhea

Onset of winter

Crossed to be shod

Traveling through a fairytale forest

Mogi is happy about his new freedom

Normal in Mongolian

Unexpected birthday surprise

The time in Bilgee’s yurt camp comes to an end

Got away with a bruise

Odor symbiosis for which we Western Europeans are not made

The revenge of the little brook

Killed the Mongolian way

Insight into the path to your own self

Another technical failure and storm

Aching limbs and heat

Taagii our translator has to go

Fraud and the hussar play

Some never get their collar full

Everything revolves around money

Expensive work ethic

Expensive work ethic

Horror in the slaughterhouse

Hooray we have our visa

Missing cables and software that drive you crazy

Visas, parcels, begging children and Mormons

Tsam dance, shamanistic traditions, masks and gods

Dusty air, no hot water, crock pot to help

Important signature and collection of documents

Set up our mobile satellite transmission

Meet our future companion Ulzii

A journey supported by helping hands

The most elaborate preparation of our travel life so far

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