Kurgan -Omsk - Novosibirsk

 

Near Kurgan, our CS hosts showed us a horse farm : there Elios had is first ride ever on a poney. After one whole day of driving, we arrived to Omsk, where we spent a night in the datcha (small country house) of Evgeniy, a VW bus lover who drives a... T4. Next day, he guided Filip to a market and a welder : now we are ready to attack Mogolia, equipped with 70L, torsion arm welded one more time in order to keep the gearbox free, and we still have time left. Omsk is bigger and more interesting than Kurgan, the second morning we walked around with a young engineer eager to improve her English and her French. From Omsk to Novosibirsk, the road is new at the beginning. The weather is now very hot and there are aggressive mosquitoes everywhere. We were overtaken by 2 off roaders driven by 4 Poles going to Mongolia : they  gave us the Mongolian roadmap we had been desperately looking for ! 250 km after Omsk, we made a stop in Karachi lakes, one is salty, people float and cover themselves with mud, then go rince in the sweet lake in front. Now, in Novosibirsk, we went to visit old dear Ikea, with its free WiFi and nice playground for children. Here is the last big city before Ulan-Bator, or even until Beijing. We have 8 days left to get slowly to tha Mongolian border.