Departures (2008–…): Season 2, Episode 7 - Mongolia: Meals and Wheels - full transcript
The guys stay with the Tsatsaan Reindeer tribe for a couple more days before the long trek back to Ulaan Bator. Scott and Justin stop along the way at a complete strangers ger (traditional Mongolian tent) where the three are invited in for fermented yaks-milk and some mix of goat organ soup. Craving adventure of a different variety, they rent ATV's and drive freely into the Gobi desert. Camping at night, and driving by day, the trio discover the ultimate idea of freedom, before running into various trouble on the road.
(wheels locking)
(upbeat music)
- [Justin] We have tracked
our way through Mongolia
to be with the Tsaatan reindeer tribe.
- [Scott] To see the way these people live
is very inspirational.
They don't have things that
aren't an absolute necessity.
- [Justin] My lost luggage now
actually seems pretty trite in comparison,
and it's helped me to have
a bit of a new outlook.
(gentle music)
As we make our way to the Gobi Desert,
it's gonna be different pace
and we're gonna probably see
a lot more based on that.
(upbeat music)
After traveling the world for a year,
Justin and I were charged
with a whole new energy.
- [Justin] As I have furthered
away from my old life,
I started to realize that
this is where I need to be.
This is now my lifestyle.
(gentle music)
- [Scott] One day, I hope to
say that I've seen the world
but that day is not here yet.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music continues)
I don't really have any clothes
my bag never showed up.
Being here in Mongolia
for this amount of time,
it's impossible to not pick
up the way these people live
and how little you need to get by.
May not have a change of
clothes (water splashing),
but it doesn't mean I have to
live completely like a hobo.
(gentle music)
I can't bath down at the river down there
because it's against
kind of Shaman belief.
So in order to do any kind of bird bath,
I've got to fetch water and bath up here
which I don't really care at this point
I just need to get clean.
(water splashing)
(upbeat music)
- The kids have offered us a chance
to join them in a reindeer race
and the race is from here to the camp.
So all the kids are kind
of professionals at this.
I mean, it's kind of the rookies.
- My reindeer does not seem
like he's interested
in racing at all today.
(Justin imitates engine revving)
All of these kids have
slight weight advantage.
- Go, go, go, go, go, go!
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
Joe, fast,
Joe move!
- Come on!
(indistinct muttering)
(upbeat music)
I'm far too heavy for this poor guy.
At least to be racing.
- Plus these kids are professional.
- Yeah, it was definitely
a weight advantage.
- Oh now he wants to go (chuckles).
- Justin and I came in probably
a pretty close to a tie for last place.
I can't say who finished last.
- [Andre] I did, I finished last.
- Andre finished last (chuckles).
(upbeat music)
They just started to take
apart this teepee here.
I don't really know why,
but they're completely
disassembling this teepee
and they're loading everything
up onto the reindeer.
(gentle music)
- It's always easy taking things apart.
- You could break down this camp and move
in a matter of an hour and a half I think.
They've already got half
of this stuff lashed
onto the reindeer.
(gentle music)
- A month from now,
they will be moving to their winter camp.
And unfortunately, we're not gonna be here
in a month from now,
so they're just showing us
how fast they can take down
and set up one teepee.
If they are on a real move,
the whole camp will move together.
- So they're gonna take this stuff
and go across the river here
and come back to right here.
- Mhh.
(gentle music)
This reindeer over here is actually
like acting as a baby carriage.
It has baby supplies on it,
but also inside, there's a
wooden frame built as a cradle.
They move camp four times a year
but despite that, it seems like an awful
lot of trouble just to show
us how this stuff is done.
(upbeat music)
- So this is kind of like the caravan.
We got lead up front with the baby
and then they got me
with most of the tarps
then we have Scott behind
who's got the chimney and the oven.
(upbeat music)
- Well, this may be just a demonstration
since we really haven't traveled
more than about 500 meters from camp.
The thing is, is there
still is sort of a sense
of urgency here
'cause the weather is moving in.
So this thing better go off fast.
(upbeat music)
And that's that.
Aside from moving in the baby
and a couple of essentials
like food and blankets and stuff,
it looks pretty much the way
it did a few minutes ago.
So I mean-
(Justin clapping)
An incredible process.
- That is really, really impressive.
- [Scott] And I think we're
gonna actually put them
to the test pretty soon too.
- [Justin] We'll see
how waterproof they are.
(upbeat music)
(kid laughing)
- [Scott] There he is.
(upbeat music)
(rain pouring)
They got luck finally running with feet,
god of the sun and sky.
I'm sure they need a little bit of rain.
We've been really lucky up to this point
of having no rain at all.
So it has to come sometime.
(thunder revving)
(woman singing in Mongolian)
(all laughing and clapping)
- She is singing about one man,
who doesn't have any teeth,
he is very easy going man.
(all laughing)
- The surrounding families have come in
and have been singing for us
and it's been something special.
- And it was nice that
for once they came here
we didn't have to go around
or go searching for it
they brought the party to us.
(children singing in Mongolian)
(all laughing and clapping)
(man singing in Mongolian)
This style of singing apparently
is only heard in the Taiga
like where we are in Northern Mongolia.
So, unique to hear.
Another unique experience
out here (chuckles).
- That's-
- Something you're not
gonna hear anywhere else.
- No, that's amazing, man.
- I could probably do that too
if I had a few more of
those newspaper cigarettes.
(indistinct muttering)
(woman speaking in Mongolian)
- [Justin] They came in with a storm
and they left with a storm.
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
(woman speaking in Mongolian)
(Sara laughs)
It is very rude of us not to offer
the older woman here some vodka.
(woman speaking in Mongolian)
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
- [Sara] She said it's
very delicious, it's sweet.
(speaking in Mongolian)
- It's Chinggis.
- [Justin] Chinggis has
rarely disappointed.
(woman speaking in Mongolian)
- She said that she's very happy
and she wishes you all
the best in your life.
- Could you tell her
that she was very, very, very good singer.
(woman speaking in Mongolian)
- [Sara] She took bronze medal,
- Oh!
(Sara muttering)
- [Both] Oh, Wow!
- [Scott] So we are looking
at the bronze medalist.
(all laughs)
- [Justin] Good day, show's over.
- Yes, and she's happy.
- The 73 year old woman outshine,
and outdrink the best of women
this little town they have here.
- She's the last one to leave the party.
- Yeah, she was rock and roll all the way
all the way.
(gentle music)
- Today, we'll start the
long trek out of here.
And I'm glad that it's
such a trek to get out here
and see the sunshine,
because if it were any easier
this could all very easily get spoiled.
(gentle music)
- Goodbye, thank you-
- Bye.
- For everything.
(upbeat music)
- The nomadic way of life
is so beautifully simple.
And they're happy, and
they have loving families
and they have all those aspects
of life that we all seem to
ultimately want to get to.
(gentle music)
We talk about freedoms in other countries
and living in a free world.
Mongolia I think exemplifies that so well
because it's a country built
to explore a country built
with awe boundaries, free
to roam wherever you want
and everyone does.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
As a token of bugs for guiding
us all the way back here
we've decided to give a couple
of these tribes on a ride
into a nearby village.
(upbeat music)
Most of these ridges and
fairy crossing this far North
are actually privately owned and operated.
And if your are all alone at a weird hour
then you'll have to wake up
the owner who lives in this
case, in the little house
on the other side of the river.
So we'll see how it goes.
- Well, the nature is angry right now.
(upbeat music)
(indistinct muttering)
(car engine revving)
(upbeat music)
(Justin groaning)
- Mongolia!
Mongolia!
(man laughing)
(car engine revving)
(indistinct muttering)
(car engine revving)
Mother nature, (indistinct) today I think.
(indistinct muttering)
I wanna get in there like I
understand what they're saying
they're working as a team, right?
And they're speaking Mongolian.
So like, I'll get in there
and I'm playing like fingers chopped up.
- They're wedging the whole ramp closer.
- There you go, push!
(upbeat music)
- Good thing we brought these guys along
in our ride back to town
because if not-
- Yeah.
- We would sit over there
(humming) what do we do now?
(car engine revving)
(upbeat music)
(group laughing)
(upbeat music)
(both men groaning)
(all laughing)
Okay, that's enough, he is next.
(upbeat music)
(group laughing and cheering)
- I guess as a success, you
make it across the bridge
and you have a little wrestle.
- Yes.
- It's called Mongolian.
- Mongolian style, right there.
- Yeah (laughs).
(indistinct muttering)
- [Scott] Excuse me.
(door bangs)
(upbeat music)
Tell them, thank you
so much for allowing us
into their property and
showing us how they live.
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
(men speaking in Mongolian)
- They're happy to meet you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
(upbeat music)
(car engine revving)
(gentle music)
We just stopped for lunch
at Sara's cousins ger.
The ger is like the more
traditional Mongolian style
tent house that you see dotted
all over the countryside.
(gentle music)
So what do they do?
Are they taking the tripe from the goat?
- Yeah, now we are preparing,
after this day is put on pot,
make a fire, and it will be waited.
- Now that they've slaughtered this goat
they're preparing different parts of it.
And they have a lot of their organs laid
out on this one tray
and they have a kettle
of some of the blood,
which they're filling part
of the stomach and intestine with.
Now they use everything
which everybody seems to do
around the world, except us back home.
(upbeat music)
- Most of the times when we eat something
is best off we don't
see how it was prepared.
We just see the final product.
But luckily enough, we
came in a little bit early
and we're seeing how they're preparing it.
You just kept promising
me through our travels,
eventually we will go to the
country, that vegan fudge.
(water splashing)
(upbeat music)
So this is the ger of the newlyweds.
- It looks really nice actually
and this is the nicest
one I've seen (chuckles).
(upbeat music)
This is a glass of?
- Yoga, yak yoga.
- Yak yoga.
- Yak yoga.
- So this clear alcohol
comes from yak yoga?
- [Sara] Yeah, yeah.
- Do I drink the whole thing?
- Yes you should drink, three times.
- [Justin] This whole thing three times?
- Yes, you can.
- No, there's no way.
Three of this?
- Yeah, you should say
the awesome(laughs).
- [Scott] That's insane.
- It's only 11 O'clock in the morning.
Since that a crowd is brewing-
- One of the oldest Mongolian traditions
is get the foreigner drunk.
(gentle music)
It's almost like drinking a chemical
or a fuel or something
is just something to it.
That's not typical alcoholic flavor.
Ready for two more?
- [Andre] Yes.
- Ready for three more?
- I don't even know what
that one tastes like.
- There's not much to it.
- [Andre] I'm feeling
pretty fuzzy actually.
- (laughs) Drinks feeling fuzzy.
(gentle music)
- It's bizarre, you know
what I mean, the flavor?
- Let's seize again.
Drinking this bizzare poison or something.
- Oh my God, started to
feel it a little bit.
There's no way I'm having
three glasses of this
no way, I don't care.
If I'm rude, I have had
enough good karma in my side.
I've eaten the weirdest things for customs
and there's no way.
- You got it, dude.
- [Scott] No.
(upbeat music)
Walking's interesting now.
Cheers, oh, I'm just choosy (laughs).
(glass clinking)
(Scott laughing)
(men speaking in Mongolian)
(gentle music)
- Evil stuff.
- [Justin] Drink my friend drink.
- We've got to be careful.
- I can't talk.
- Andre sorry, Scott
this guy said that you should sing.
- You can't make up customs as you go.
- This is a song drink.
- You're totally making up rules
and that's not fair at all.
- Go.
- I don't know any royalty-free songs.
♪ Thank you for giving us a lovely drink ♪
♪ It's wonderful ♪
♪ And I'm getting plowed ♪
♪ For the long journey home ♪
(group cheering and clapping)
(upbeat music)
- I just see hid my glass
it's under the bench.
- [Scott] And that was like-
- That's where (indistinct).
(Sara laughing)
They found, that's classy.
He's like, "I know where it is, I saw it."
He ran over and he's like, "Here it is."
Oh, there it is, I thought I lost it.
- Cheers to someone filming
the rest of this show.
- My glass is closing.
(gentle music)
(Andre groans)
- No please, no please.
- [Scott] That's the six glasses.
(funky music)
(man speaking in Mongolian)
- I am being like a guy who talks loud
I should talk and slapped
her, don't yell at me.
- Shut up.
- Don't yell at me talk softer.
(indistinct muttering)
- Oh my God, Dre.
- This is all about getting
our camera man home alive.
(all laughs)
It's over, it's over.
Oh!
(all laughs)
Oh no, no (laughs).
Congratulations, you just won it.
- [Scott] I just wore it.
Well, it's poured all over the place.
(both laughs)
Do it, do it.
Wow, good for Andre.
You guys did really well.
I barely made my three.
You guys did four plus.
Andre I think he did seven or eight.
Kudos, we should get you some water.
- And there's the sunlight.
Can't be anything past 12
o'clock at this moment.
Oh man.
- Stop yelling.
- This whole pit stop was
just like, kind of like,
"Hey do you guys feel
like having some lunch?
I have some family nearby.
We'll have something to eat.
My (indistinct) delicious."
(Justin humming)
Aren't we talk about something.
And now it's 12 o'clock
and we're completely bombed
and we have to eat intestines.
(funky music)
Man, my mouth's watering, it's
more like I need a bucket.
- I just think that red bucket
looks like a transport truck hit a sheep.
Back at home, that's all
the stuff we don't eat.
That's just us being wasteful
'cause if you eat it all,
then it will go a lot further.
- I don't even eat dark meat.
Can you tell them that I
can't eat that whole bucket.
- If you taste this you are very lucky.
- Okay, what is this here, lung?
- [Sara] Lung.
- [Justin] Lung okay.
- [Sara] Lung.
(both laughs)
- Oh, It's tasty.
- Not bad.
- Oh, this is tremendous.
- [Scott] I'm just
saying this isn't as bad
I didn't saying, mhh that's delicious.
(gentle music)
- No, not good.
- Our driver loves this stuff.
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
What is this?
- [Sara] Kidney.
- Oh, it's tremendous.
It's absolutely stupendous.
- Better than the lung.
(gentle music)
- Oh my God, what is that?
- It's blood.
- Is that like cooked blood?
- Yes, we'll it's a raw blood.
- Oh, obvious that is not raw
because that is not red.
- Then what is it?
- [Justin] I don't know.
- Blood wet in.
And it made it into chocolate.
- [Justin] So this is the blood?
- [Scott] Yeah, you got more blood.
I've got some blood and I've got some-
- Kind of shave off some of my blood.
Look, come on and get rid of some of it.
- [Scott] Oh, yeah, look at
how much cow's stomach I got.
- [Sara] Sheep blood.
- Mmh, I know.
- Sheep's blood.
- [Justin] Just swallow.
There it goes, try a little bit of it.
- Blood?
Mmh, try a bit of that.
What is this?
I love it.
What is this, kidney?
It's kind of not feel very good.
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
- [Scott] It's the head game, isn't it?
- It's the head game.
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
I'm not used to it, but it's good.
- You come into this situation and be like
"I can never eat that"
and I'm like, "Well try it."
You might like it you might not.
The actual goat's blood,
wasn't as bad as the lung.
- So why are you giving me help for?
I eat something that I didn't want say
that's delicious, stupid
is there anything like that?
- [Justin] You didn't say that.
- I did not.
(men muttering)
(car door banging)
(car engine revving)
We have like 10 hours on
our bumpy, bumpy road.
Do you think my stomach is full
with drink and food?
- [Justin] And organs.
- And organs (chuckles).
(upbeat music)
We said goodbye to her guide Sara
and we're leaving Moron on a small plane.
We'll head back to Ulaanbaatar
and take another flight
out to the Gobi Desert.
(gentle music)
The other thing too is we're
stopping in Ulaanbaatar,
hopefully, hopefully,
after the last week or so
my bag has arrived in Ulaanbaatar.
I've kind of grown accustomed
to wearing your clothes to be honest
and you are still Andre, comfortable.
(upbeat music)
There it is.
I don't know why my bag
wants to just travel without me.
I've got to change the
clothes for the Gobi.
I've got a tent, I can
sleep in in the desert.
I got a sleeping bag, a grill mat,
I have got a toothbrush, got deodorant,
flashlight, clean underwear.
(upbeat music)
We're in Dalanzadgad, which
is this tiny little speck
of a town in the middle
of the South Gobi desert
and we've completely flipped extremes.
We've gone from the extreme North
to the extreme South of Mongolia.
Since there's no other way to
really get around this desert
other than chartering a Jeep
or having a helicopter
we've decided to invent our own methods.
- This is the greatest
idea ever (chuckles).
This idea of buying a new one
I don't think there's
many of these in Mongolia.
I just can't wait.
(upbeat music)
- This is Gana,
she will be accompanying
Andre in our support vehicle.
And yes you gonna kind
of translate for us.
- Yeah, (chuckles).
(gentle music)
- There we go.
(gentle music)
And this is our driver, loads his back.
- How are you, your name?
- Muko.
- Muko?
Scott, you know the desert quite well?
- Yes.
- Yes, what's this thing.
- [Gana] It's a helmet
- Oh.
(all laughing)
- You said black.
- I changed my mind.
- You said black.
- Yeah, then I saw it
was kind of weird looking
and I'm like, "I don't
want the green one."
(upbeat music)
(motor engine revving)
(upbeat music)
(motor engine revving)
(upbeat music)
(motor engine revving)
What we wanna do before we leave Mongolia,
we want to live somewhat
nomadically or as best we can
and to take on the Gobi Desert in that way
I think is the perfect opportunity.
(motor engine revving)
♪ Sun is beaming under ♪
♪ It's burning like my brain ♪
- [Scott] They'll do I guess,
now if we have to do the Gobi like this.
I'll stop for somehow, just
as I know he hates this.
- I had a ride on cloth
the next couple of days
and I got keep Scott happy, so here I am.
- Prompts buddy.
(upbeat music)
(motor engine revving)
I'm filthy and I don't care.
- I can't believe we're
gonna be doing this
for the next couple of days.
- We've had them for about an hour
and the sun's just setting (chuckles)
and we can't get off of
cloud nine right now.
- We've got about 60
miles to make up today
and we were driving in the dark.
- This could become a trend
and we could just end
up traveling the rest
of the world by ATV I think.
- It's hard, but I wanna end this
'cause I wanna get my clock.
(upbeat music)
We had just finished an
hour and a half of riding
in the dark and it kicked our ass.
The best part is that tomorrow
we have 10 hours of riding.
(upbeat music)
- This is kind of our base camp one.
From here, we really
get into the good stuff
and deep into the desert.
That's ahead of us, open desert.
(upbeat music)
- I already got like
all this music lined up
for when I'm going to
listen to in this ride
going heavy metal today boys and girls
we're going heavy metal.
(high energy rock music)
(gentle music)
- There it seem to attract
a bit of attention.
- [Justin] I don't think
at this point in the desert
they probably get to
see them all that often.
(man speaking in Mongolian)
- You wanna sit up on there?
(Scott imitates engine revving)
(kid imitates engine revving)
(Scott imitates engine revving)
- Well done.
(kid muttering)
(both laughing)
(kid imitates engine revving)
It's so natural (laughs).
(motor engine revving)
(kid imitates engine revving)
- [Justin] Push that.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
There's been a couple
of really cool sections
on this ride, like through this Canyon.
♪ Desert sign ♪
♪ Shifting here ♪
♪ Pure in strength ♪
- [Scott] It was a nice
change just to cool down
like these cliffs
where in the winter there's actually
an ice glacier in the desert
is now melted into what's left
of a little bit of a stream.
And it's just bizarre to be blasting
through this creek thinking
you're in the Gobi Desert.
(singing in foreign language)
Just as the last light is leaving the sky,
we make our own camp.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
Having been in the Sahara
only a few months ago,
and then being here in the
Gobi is kind of surreal
and these are two of the
world's most notoriously barren
and cruel deserts.
Every time you go out, every
time we're gonna face a desert,
we're gonna know a
little bit more about it
and be a little bit more prepared.
And I like that.
I mean, that's why we travel.
Be able to apply these
lessons in a multitude
of different ways.
Who knows maybe I'll
end up teaching someone
how to fill a goat's stomach with blood
and boil it and eat it.
I probably won't, but I could.
All that aside, you wake up
and the first thing that
goes through your head
is I can't wait to get going.
(upbeat music)
Like The Sahara, The
Gobi changes constantly.
And there's a lot of different terrain.
If I was at home, I
wouldn't be able to do a lot
of this stuff.
You know, just open it up
for kilometers and kilometers
and kilometers, not see
anyone for hours at a time.
(upbeat music)
We just stopped for a quick water break
and to check out
probably what's gonna be
the last of the sand dunes
that we're gonna see in the Gobi.
There's a river that comes
through here that feeds this area
and kind of makes it quite green.
So it's impressive to
just see these plains
backways where we're even seeing trees
that lead right up to the sand dunes.
(man speaking in Mongolian)
- We should just start
charging a few more rides,
make up a bit more for gas.
(Scott imitates engine revving)
- It's kind of ironic.
They're interested in my ride
and I'm interested in their ride.
These are the biggest
camels I've ever seen.
And they got two humps,
which is kind of cool.
But they look really mean
like I kind of struck one
and it just stood grounded.
(upbeat music)
(camel grunting)
(upbeat music)
(camel grunting)
I just wanna fix your hump.
Oh my God, it's heavy.
It's heavy I know.
I wanna ride on this camels.
Let's see if we could strike a deal here.
(Gana speaking in Mongolian)
- She said okay, and
he's gonna ride the ATV.
- Okay deal, deal (laughing).
(gentle music)
(camel grunting)
- Is he friendly?
(Gana speaking in Mongolian)
(camel grunting)
(laughs) It's big dude.
See, this is more practical
it's like double hump.
Can you sit right in the groove.
(camel grunting)
Oh shit.
(camel grunting)
(Justin laughs)
At least she has
something I can hold on to
let's go see Scott.
(camel grunting)
- I think the guy you made the deal with
he can't wait to get going.
(camel grunting)
- Jo jo jo jo, oh!
(camel grunting)
Jo jo jo jo (laughing).
(camel grunting)
(Justin imitates engine revving)
Break, break, break.
(upbeat music)
(motor engine revving)
Ask him how many camels
to trade for that quad.
(Gana speaking in Mongolian)
- [Gana] Eight camels.
- [Justin] Eight camels?
- [Gana] Yeah.
- Eight camels.
Think of the possibilities for each.
- I don't think the rental
company would be too happy
if we came back with, here you go,
eight camels.
- [Gana] Eight camels.
(upbeat music)
- I could feel the quad just
polling and not behaving
like the quad that I left.
I'm like, I think that
tyres is going flat.
Tryna pull over and yeah, it's going flat.
There is certainly no store around here
that sells ATV tyres.
- We should trade those camels.
- It wouldn't have done any good.
You were gonna trade your ATV.
This one's still would have went flat.
We would have the eight camels
and an ATV with a flat tyre.
- Yeah, but at least we can get
around with four camels each.
- [Scott] Yeah, I suppose.
(upbeat music)
I love how the desert just brings
out the most incredible ingenuity.
We've seen it time and time again
from The Sahara and then here as well.
(car engine revving)
- That is pretty slick.
I want to see him put it back on now
that's the trick.
- He just goes in reverse.
He's just pulled the tyre off
and now he's managed to
put a little patch kid in.
(pressure pumping)
Tyres back on, we gonna have to be careful
and ride out the next
120K just on the road.
No more off-road stuff
and it should be okay.
(motor engine revving)
(upbeat music)
I don't know What I did to deserve this
but now I've got another
flat on the other side.
Justin is just coming back
sure to get a kick out of this.
(motor engine revving)
- You've been taking it pretty easy
ever since you got that first flag
and I always just been beating the snot
out of this thing.
(gentle music)
You can't patch it here.
- It's bigger than the other one
so you've got to take it into
the next town to get
patch and bring it back.
- If we get mugged or die
tell the world our story.
Andre, tell the world our story.
(gentle music)
(motor engine revving)
(gentle music)
Eh, heh!
(gentle music)
(Scott muttering)
(gentle music)
(pressure pump hissing)
(gentle music)
- We couldn't find that
extra patch from there,
so we came here to buy
the patch from this shop.
I don't know whether they have or not.
(gentle music)
They don't have the small one
and it's too big.
I think there's no other shops here
and don't know what to do.
(upbeat music)
- This is the panorama
of what's around us.
Nothing, this is the state
of my rear axle and tyres
and now rock.
Thank you, Justin for
knocking that bottle over,
that helps immensely.
(gentle music)
- [Gana] At last we found inner tubes.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
- It's okay, all right,
welcome back, I trust you have
some repaired tyres for me.
Was it a big ordeal?
- Yeah, a little bit.
Just push off this clock, a little more.
Okay, good job.
- [Scott] I'm just glad that it worked out
but now I'm so paranoid to even drive it.
- Have we not learned anything?
Taking it easy, being safe
get you two flat tyres.
(Scott chuckles)
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
- We were talking with Gana about,
can we still see fossil somewhere
other than going to a museum?
And she said the driver
used to actually drive
an Italian paleontologist
out in certain parts
of these cliffs to look
for dinosaur bones.
And she said that, yeah,
there's still a lot of
evidence of them out here.
(gentle music)
Bayanzag or the flaming cliffs
made famous in the 1920s,
when the Roy Chapman Andrews
discovered huge deposits
of dinosaur bones became one
of the most renowned dinosaur
bone deposits in the world.
99% of all the dinosaur
remnants have now been extracted
from the ground here,
but just slow things down
and let the imagination run
wild for a bit, it's fun.
It's something we don't really
get to do all that often.
These three pieces are from the dinosaur.
Just looks like rock, it feels like rock.
(gentle music)
Looks like what could
be another piece here.
(gentle music)
I am far from a paleontologist.
But you would think that a lot
of these things wouldn't
have been overlooked
and petrified bones could look like rocks,
but there's a lot of things around here
that then look like bones.
- Undeniably a bone.
- (laughs) This is a chicken bone, dude.
Well, if that's a dinosaur bone,
then this is a dinosaur too.
(gentle music)
I'm not convinced that
I find something, dude.
- This is that same sort of style
I only suppose that could
be part of a bone as well.
- This could be something
because it's been eroded.
This all been eroded by the water.
So you never know.
It's in there.
- Over the ridge there, these two items
were about this far apart
from each other in the ground
they both have what appears
to be missing in the middle.
Again it could be convincing.
- [Justin] What kind of
dinosaur do you think it is?
Maybe a Whiskey Saurus or something.
Come on, whiskey saurus.
I don't know what I found.
I found something, I like to
think it's the dinosaur bone
and it may not be.
- 90% imagination and 10%
rock makes a dinosaur bone.
- [Scott] I don't know what that is.
- That's a bone, I don't care.
It happened again I am
not a paleontologist,
or anything like that.
I see drastic park couple of times, so
Scott I found something
I don't know what it is.
(gentle music)
You can see that shape again
where it rounds off
and then a hole here
for nerves, for tendons.
- Oh dude, I just don't know.
It just seemed like such
a bizarre oblong shapes.
- To actually get my magic
as you come back like
"Oh my gosh, dinosaur bone"
and you're digging, you're pulling it up
and you're naming it
and the guy big kick out of it.
And I don't know, it could be real.
I think Scott thinks it's fake.
- I have to have proof
and until I do, I didn't
really buy into it.
And Justin, he's a dreamer
and that's a really good thing
that's far from a bad trait.
In fact, I wish I was
more of a dreamer as well.
(upbeat music)
I got them, I got them, I got them.
I knew we were gonna find
conclusive evidence here.
That's a dinosaur.
It's funny how reptiles
probably haven't changed a heck
of a lot since the dinosaur times,
aside from the fact that
they're probably a lot smaller
and can't kill me now.
(upbeat music)
Mongolia shocked me every second.
And I think that today, this might be
the most beautiful country
I've ever seen in my life.
(upbeat music)
It's a never ending Mecca
for exploration and camping.
And there's so much change in
diversity, it's untraveled.
There's not a lot of
travelers tourists here.
As well as there's not a
lot of even Mongolians here.
There's only two and a half
million people in an area
the size of Alaska and it's all yours.
Do you want to go there?
Go there, here, wherever.
You wanna camp four miles that way?
set up a tent, go for it.
- [Justin] I just don't think
people think of Mongolia
as a place to go and to travel to
and it's unfortunate.
It's one of these places in the world
that I think a lot of people
need to come and check out.
- [Scott] From here we go
right back to the airport,
we leave the ATVs behind
and that's it.
And we say goodbye at the Gobi
and we say goodbye to Mongolia.
- We're going somewhere else.
If you wanna know yet
tune in the next week.
That's how it works around here.
- Iceland.
- Iceland it is, might as well (chuckles).
(bike engine revving)
- [Justin] If you want to see a country
that's totally gonna blow your mind
then you better book a trip to Mongolia
because it's something
you need to see now.
The people there are fighting as hard
as they can to keep that
country the way it is.
I hope it stays like that
for the rest of the eternity.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
Even though my body is saying
stay in the desert it feels nice and warm,
we are heading Iceland.
These trips are always about change
and there's no bigger change
than leaving a desert for
the land of ice and fire.
Iceland is a world away from Mongolia
and it's gonna have its own extremes.
And I know mother nature
is already waiting for us.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
- [Justin] We have tracked
our way through Mongolia
to be with the Tsaatan reindeer tribe.
- [Scott] To see the way these people live
is very inspirational.
They don't have things that
aren't an absolute necessity.
- [Justin] My lost luggage now
actually seems pretty trite in comparison,
and it's helped me to have
a bit of a new outlook.
(gentle music)
As we make our way to the Gobi Desert,
it's gonna be different pace
and we're gonna probably see
a lot more based on that.
(upbeat music)
After traveling the world for a year,
Justin and I were charged
with a whole new energy.
- [Justin] As I have furthered
away from my old life,
I started to realize that
this is where I need to be.
This is now my lifestyle.
(gentle music)
- [Scott] One day, I hope to
say that I've seen the world
but that day is not here yet.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music continues)
I don't really have any clothes
my bag never showed up.
Being here in Mongolia
for this amount of time,
it's impossible to not pick
up the way these people live
and how little you need to get by.
May not have a change of
clothes (water splashing),
but it doesn't mean I have to
live completely like a hobo.
(gentle music)
I can't bath down at the river down there
because it's against
kind of Shaman belief.
So in order to do any kind of bird bath,
I've got to fetch water and bath up here
which I don't really care at this point
I just need to get clean.
(water splashing)
(upbeat music)
- The kids have offered us a chance
to join them in a reindeer race
and the race is from here to the camp.
So all the kids are kind
of professionals at this.
I mean, it's kind of the rookies.
- My reindeer does not seem
like he's interested
in racing at all today.
(Justin imitates engine revving)
All of these kids have
slight weight advantage.
- Go, go, go, go, go, go!
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
Joe, fast,
Joe move!
- Come on!
(indistinct muttering)
(upbeat music)
I'm far too heavy for this poor guy.
At least to be racing.
- Plus these kids are professional.
- Yeah, it was definitely
a weight advantage.
- Oh now he wants to go (chuckles).
- Justin and I came in probably
a pretty close to a tie for last place.
I can't say who finished last.
- [Andre] I did, I finished last.
- Andre finished last (chuckles).
(upbeat music)
They just started to take
apart this teepee here.
I don't really know why,
but they're completely
disassembling this teepee
and they're loading everything
up onto the reindeer.
(gentle music)
- It's always easy taking things apart.
- You could break down this camp and move
in a matter of an hour and a half I think.
They've already got half
of this stuff lashed
onto the reindeer.
(gentle music)
- A month from now,
they will be moving to their winter camp.
And unfortunately, we're not gonna be here
in a month from now,
so they're just showing us
how fast they can take down
and set up one teepee.
If they are on a real move,
the whole camp will move together.
- So they're gonna take this stuff
and go across the river here
and come back to right here.
- Mhh.
(gentle music)
This reindeer over here is actually
like acting as a baby carriage.
It has baby supplies on it,
but also inside, there's a
wooden frame built as a cradle.
They move camp four times a year
but despite that, it seems like an awful
lot of trouble just to show
us how this stuff is done.
(upbeat music)
- So this is kind of like the caravan.
We got lead up front with the baby
and then they got me
with most of the tarps
then we have Scott behind
who's got the chimney and the oven.
(upbeat music)
- Well, this may be just a demonstration
since we really haven't traveled
more than about 500 meters from camp.
The thing is, is there
still is sort of a sense
of urgency here
'cause the weather is moving in.
So this thing better go off fast.
(upbeat music)
And that's that.
Aside from moving in the baby
and a couple of essentials
like food and blankets and stuff,
it looks pretty much the way
it did a few minutes ago.
So I mean-
(Justin clapping)
An incredible process.
- That is really, really impressive.
- [Scott] And I think we're
gonna actually put them
to the test pretty soon too.
- [Justin] We'll see
how waterproof they are.
(upbeat music)
(kid laughing)
- [Scott] There he is.
(upbeat music)
(rain pouring)
They got luck finally running with feet,
god of the sun and sky.
I'm sure they need a little bit of rain.
We've been really lucky up to this point
of having no rain at all.
So it has to come sometime.
(thunder revving)
(woman singing in Mongolian)
(all laughing and clapping)
- She is singing about one man,
who doesn't have any teeth,
he is very easy going man.
(all laughing)
- The surrounding families have come in
and have been singing for us
and it's been something special.
- And it was nice that
for once they came here
we didn't have to go around
or go searching for it
they brought the party to us.
(children singing in Mongolian)
(all laughing and clapping)
(man singing in Mongolian)
This style of singing apparently
is only heard in the Taiga
like where we are in Northern Mongolia.
So, unique to hear.
Another unique experience
out here (chuckles).
- That's-
- Something you're not
gonna hear anywhere else.
- No, that's amazing, man.
- I could probably do that too
if I had a few more of
those newspaper cigarettes.
(indistinct muttering)
(woman speaking in Mongolian)
- [Justin] They came in with a storm
and they left with a storm.
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
(woman speaking in Mongolian)
(Sara laughs)
It is very rude of us not to offer
the older woman here some vodka.
(woman speaking in Mongolian)
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
- [Sara] She said it's
very delicious, it's sweet.
(speaking in Mongolian)
- It's Chinggis.
- [Justin] Chinggis has
rarely disappointed.
(woman speaking in Mongolian)
- She said that she's very happy
and she wishes you all
the best in your life.
- Could you tell her
that she was very, very, very good singer.
(woman speaking in Mongolian)
- [Sara] She took bronze medal,
- Oh!
(Sara muttering)
- [Both] Oh, Wow!
- [Scott] So we are looking
at the bronze medalist.
(all laughs)
- [Justin] Good day, show's over.
- Yes, and she's happy.
- The 73 year old woman outshine,
and outdrink the best of women
this little town they have here.
- She's the last one to leave the party.
- Yeah, she was rock and roll all the way
all the way.
(gentle music)
- Today, we'll start the
long trek out of here.
And I'm glad that it's
such a trek to get out here
and see the sunshine,
because if it were any easier
this could all very easily get spoiled.
(gentle music)
- Goodbye, thank you-
- Bye.
- For everything.
(upbeat music)
- The nomadic way of life
is so beautifully simple.
And they're happy, and
they have loving families
and they have all those aspects
of life that we all seem to
ultimately want to get to.
(gentle music)
We talk about freedoms in other countries
and living in a free world.
Mongolia I think exemplifies that so well
because it's a country built
to explore a country built
with awe boundaries, free
to roam wherever you want
and everyone does.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
As a token of bugs for guiding
us all the way back here
we've decided to give a couple
of these tribes on a ride
into a nearby village.
(upbeat music)
Most of these ridges and
fairy crossing this far North
are actually privately owned and operated.
And if your are all alone at a weird hour
then you'll have to wake up
the owner who lives in this
case, in the little house
on the other side of the river.
So we'll see how it goes.
- Well, the nature is angry right now.
(upbeat music)
(indistinct muttering)
(car engine revving)
(upbeat music)
(Justin groaning)
- Mongolia!
Mongolia!
(man laughing)
(car engine revving)
(indistinct muttering)
(car engine revving)
Mother nature, (indistinct) today I think.
(indistinct muttering)
I wanna get in there like I
understand what they're saying
they're working as a team, right?
And they're speaking Mongolian.
So like, I'll get in there
and I'm playing like fingers chopped up.
- They're wedging the whole ramp closer.
- There you go, push!
(upbeat music)
- Good thing we brought these guys along
in our ride back to town
because if not-
- Yeah.
- We would sit over there
(humming) what do we do now?
(car engine revving)
(upbeat music)
(group laughing)
(upbeat music)
(both men groaning)
(all laughing)
Okay, that's enough, he is next.
(upbeat music)
(group laughing and cheering)
- I guess as a success, you
make it across the bridge
and you have a little wrestle.
- Yes.
- It's called Mongolian.
- Mongolian style, right there.
- Yeah (laughs).
(indistinct muttering)
- [Scott] Excuse me.
(door bangs)
(upbeat music)
Tell them, thank you
so much for allowing us
into their property and
showing us how they live.
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
(men speaking in Mongolian)
- They're happy to meet you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
(upbeat music)
(car engine revving)
(gentle music)
We just stopped for lunch
at Sara's cousins ger.
The ger is like the more
traditional Mongolian style
tent house that you see dotted
all over the countryside.
(gentle music)
So what do they do?
Are they taking the tripe from the goat?
- Yeah, now we are preparing,
after this day is put on pot,
make a fire, and it will be waited.
- Now that they've slaughtered this goat
they're preparing different parts of it.
And they have a lot of their organs laid
out on this one tray
and they have a kettle
of some of the blood,
which they're filling part
of the stomach and intestine with.
Now they use everything
which everybody seems to do
around the world, except us back home.
(upbeat music)
- Most of the times when we eat something
is best off we don't
see how it was prepared.
We just see the final product.
But luckily enough, we
came in a little bit early
and we're seeing how they're preparing it.
You just kept promising
me through our travels,
eventually we will go to the
country, that vegan fudge.
(water splashing)
(upbeat music)
So this is the ger of the newlyweds.
- It looks really nice actually
and this is the nicest
one I've seen (chuckles).
(upbeat music)
This is a glass of?
- Yoga, yak yoga.
- Yak yoga.
- Yak yoga.
- So this clear alcohol
comes from yak yoga?
- [Sara] Yeah, yeah.
- Do I drink the whole thing?
- Yes you should drink, three times.
- [Justin] This whole thing three times?
- Yes, you can.
- No, there's no way.
Three of this?
- Yeah, you should say
the awesome(laughs).
- [Scott] That's insane.
- It's only 11 O'clock in the morning.
Since that a crowd is brewing-
- One of the oldest Mongolian traditions
is get the foreigner drunk.
(gentle music)
It's almost like drinking a chemical
or a fuel or something
is just something to it.
That's not typical alcoholic flavor.
Ready for two more?
- [Andre] Yes.
- Ready for three more?
- I don't even know what
that one tastes like.
- There's not much to it.
- [Andre] I'm feeling
pretty fuzzy actually.
- (laughs) Drinks feeling fuzzy.
(gentle music)
- It's bizarre, you know
what I mean, the flavor?
- Let's seize again.
Drinking this bizzare poison or something.
- Oh my God, started to
feel it a little bit.
There's no way I'm having
three glasses of this
no way, I don't care.
If I'm rude, I have had
enough good karma in my side.
I've eaten the weirdest things for customs
and there's no way.
- You got it, dude.
- [Scott] No.
(upbeat music)
Walking's interesting now.
Cheers, oh, I'm just choosy (laughs).
(glass clinking)
(Scott laughing)
(men speaking in Mongolian)
(gentle music)
- Evil stuff.
- [Justin] Drink my friend drink.
- We've got to be careful.
- I can't talk.
- Andre sorry, Scott
this guy said that you should sing.
- You can't make up customs as you go.
- This is a song drink.
- You're totally making up rules
and that's not fair at all.
- Go.
- I don't know any royalty-free songs.
♪ Thank you for giving us a lovely drink ♪
♪ It's wonderful ♪
♪ And I'm getting plowed ♪
♪ For the long journey home ♪
(group cheering and clapping)
(upbeat music)
- I just see hid my glass
it's under the bench.
- [Scott] And that was like-
- That's where (indistinct).
(Sara laughing)
They found, that's classy.
He's like, "I know where it is, I saw it."
He ran over and he's like, "Here it is."
Oh, there it is, I thought I lost it.
- Cheers to someone filming
the rest of this show.
- My glass is closing.
(gentle music)
(Andre groans)
- No please, no please.
- [Scott] That's the six glasses.
(funky music)
(man speaking in Mongolian)
- I am being like a guy who talks loud
I should talk and slapped
her, don't yell at me.
- Shut up.
- Don't yell at me talk softer.
(indistinct muttering)
- Oh my God, Dre.
- This is all about getting
our camera man home alive.
(all laughs)
It's over, it's over.
Oh!
(all laughs)
Oh no, no (laughs).
Congratulations, you just won it.
- [Scott] I just wore it.
Well, it's poured all over the place.
(both laughs)
Do it, do it.
Wow, good for Andre.
You guys did really well.
I barely made my three.
You guys did four plus.
Andre I think he did seven or eight.
Kudos, we should get you some water.
- And there's the sunlight.
Can't be anything past 12
o'clock at this moment.
Oh man.
- Stop yelling.
- This whole pit stop was
just like, kind of like,
"Hey do you guys feel
like having some lunch?
I have some family nearby.
We'll have something to eat.
My (indistinct) delicious."
(Justin humming)
Aren't we talk about something.
And now it's 12 o'clock
and we're completely bombed
and we have to eat intestines.
(funky music)
Man, my mouth's watering, it's
more like I need a bucket.
- I just think that red bucket
looks like a transport truck hit a sheep.
Back at home, that's all
the stuff we don't eat.
That's just us being wasteful
'cause if you eat it all,
then it will go a lot further.
- I don't even eat dark meat.
Can you tell them that I
can't eat that whole bucket.
- If you taste this you are very lucky.
- Okay, what is this here, lung?
- [Sara] Lung.
- [Justin] Lung okay.
- [Sara] Lung.
(both laughs)
- Oh, It's tasty.
- Not bad.
- Oh, this is tremendous.
- [Scott] I'm just
saying this isn't as bad
I didn't saying, mhh that's delicious.
(gentle music)
- No, not good.
- Our driver loves this stuff.
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
What is this?
- [Sara] Kidney.
- Oh, it's tremendous.
It's absolutely stupendous.
- Better than the lung.
(gentle music)
- Oh my God, what is that?
- It's blood.
- Is that like cooked blood?
- Yes, we'll it's a raw blood.
- Oh, obvious that is not raw
because that is not red.
- Then what is it?
- [Justin] I don't know.
- Blood wet in.
And it made it into chocolate.
- [Justin] So this is the blood?
- [Scott] Yeah, you got more blood.
I've got some blood and I've got some-
- Kind of shave off some of my blood.
Look, come on and get rid of some of it.
- [Scott] Oh, yeah, look at
how much cow's stomach I got.
- [Sara] Sheep blood.
- Mmh, I know.
- Sheep's blood.
- [Justin] Just swallow.
There it goes, try a little bit of it.
- Blood?
Mmh, try a bit of that.
What is this?
I love it.
What is this, kidney?
It's kind of not feel very good.
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
- [Scott] It's the head game, isn't it?
- It's the head game.
(Sara speaking in Mongolian)
I'm not used to it, but it's good.
- You come into this situation and be like
"I can never eat that"
and I'm like, "Well try it."
You might like it you might not.
The actual goat's blood,
wasn't as bad as the lung.
- So why are you giving me help for?
I eat something that I didn't want say
that's delicious, stupid
is there anything like that?
- [Justin] You didn't say that.
- I did not.
(men muttering)
(car door banging)
(car engine revving)
We have like 10 hours on
our bumpy, bumpy road.
Do you think my stomach is full
with drink and food?
- [Justin] And organs.
- And organs (chuckles).
(upbeat music)
We said goodbye to her guide Sara
and we're leaving Moron on a small plane.
We'll head back to Ulaanbaatar
and take another flight
out to the Gobi Desert.
(gentle music)
The other thing too is we're
stopping in Ulaanbaatar,
hopefully, hopefully,
after the last week or so
my bag has arrived in Ulaanbaatar.
I've kind of grown accustomed
to wearing your clothes to be honest
and you are still Andre, comfortable.
(upbeat music)
There it is.
I don't know why my bag
wants to just travel without me.
I've got to change the
clothes for the Gobi.
I've got a tent, I can
sleep in in the desert.
I got a sleeping bag, a grill mat,
I have got a toothbrush, got deodorant,
flashlight, clean underwear.
(upbeat music)
We're in Dalanzadgad, which
is this tiny little speck
of a town in the middle
of the South Gobi desert
and we've completely flipped extremes.
We've gone from the extreme North
to the extreme South of Mongolia.
Since there's no other way to
really get around this desert
other than chartering a Jeep
or having a helicopter
we've decided to invent our own methods.
- This is the greatest
idea ever (chuckles).
This idea of buying a new one
I don't think there's
many of these in Mongolia.
I just can't wait.
(upbeat music)
- This is Gana,
she will be accompanying
Andre in our support vehicle.
And yes you gonna kind
of translate for us.
- Yeah, (chuckles).
(gentle music)
- There we go.
(gentle music)
And this is our driver, loads his back.
- How are you, your name?
- Muko.
- Muko?
Scott, you know the desert quite well?
- Yes.
- Yes, what's this thing.
- [Gana] It's a helmet
- Oh.
(all laughing)
- You said black.
- I changed my mind.
- You said black.
- Yeah, then I saw it
was kind of weird looking
and I'm like, "I don't
want the green one."
(upbeat music)
(motor engine revving)
(upbeat music)
(motor engine revving)
(upbeat music)
(motor engine revving)
What we wanna do before we leave Mongolia,
we want to live somewhat
nomadically or as best we can
and to take on the Gobi Desert in that way
I think is the perfect opportunity.
(motor engine revving)
♪ Sun is beaming under ♪
♪ It's burning like my brain ♪
- [Scott] They'll do I guess,
now if we have to do the Gobi like this.
I'll stop for somehow, just
as I know he hates this.
- I had a ride on cloth
the next couple of days
and I got keep Scott happy, so here I am.
- Prompts buddy.
(upbeat music)
(motor engine revving)
I'm filthy and I don't care.
- I can't believe we're
gonna be doing this
for the next couple of days.
- We've had them for about an hour
and the sun's just setting (chuckles)
and we can't get off of
cloud nine right now.
- We've got about 60
miles to make up today
and we were driving in the dark.
- This could become a trend
and we could just end
up traveling the rest
of the world by ATV I think.
- It's hard, but I wanna end this
'cause I wanna get my clock.
(upbeat music)
We had just finished an
hour and a half of riding
in the dark and it kicked our ass.
The best part is that tomorrow
we have 10 hours of riding.
(upbeat music)
- This is kind of our base camp one.
From here, we really
get into the good stuff
and deep into the desert.
That's ahead of us, open desert.
(upbeat music)
- I already got like
all this music lined up
for when I'm going to
listen to in this ride
going heavy metal today boys and girls
we're going heavy metal.
(high energy rock music)
(gentle music)
- There it seem to attract
a bit of attention.
- [Justin] I don't think
at this point in the desert
they probably get to
see them all that often.
(man speaking in Mongolian)
- You wanna sit up on there?
(Scott imitates engine revving)
(kid imitates engine revving)
(Scott imitates engine revving)
- Well done.
(kid muttering)
(both laughing)
(kid imitates engine revving)
It's so natural (laughs).
(motor engine revving)
(kid imitates engine revving)
- [Justin] Push that.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
There's been a couple
of really cool sections
on this ride, like through this Canyon.
♪ Desert sign ♪
♪ Shifting here ♪
♪ Pure in strength ♪
- [Scott] It was a nice
change just to cool down
like these cliffs
where in the winter there's actually
an ice glacier in the desert
is now melted into what's left
of a little bit of a stream.
And it's just bizarre to be blasting
through this creek thinking
you're in the Gobi Desert.
(singing in foreign language)
Just as the last light is leaving the sky,
we make our own camp.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
Having been in the Sahara
only a few months ago,
and then being here in the
Gobi is kind of surreal
and these are two of the
world's most notoriously barren
and cruel deserts.
Every time you go out, every
time we're gonna face a desert,
we're gonna know a
little bit more about it
and be a little bit more prepared.
And I like that.
I mean, that's why we travel.
Be able to apply these
lessons in a multitude
of different ways.
Who knows maybe I'll
end up teaching someone
how to fill a goat's stomach with blood
and boil it and eat it.
I probably won't, but I could.
All that aside, you wake up
and the first thing that
goes through your head
is I can't wait to get going.
(upbeat music)
Like The Sahara, The
Gobi changes constantly.
And there's a lot of different terrain.
If I was at home, I
wouldn't be able to do a lot
of this stuff.
You know, just open it up
for kilometers and kilometers
and kilometers, not see
anyone for hours at a time.
(upbeat music)
We just stopped for a quick water break
and to check out
probably what's gonna be
the last of the sand dunes
that we're gonna see in the Gobi.
There's a river that comes
through here that feeds this area
and kind of makes it quite green.
So it's impressive to
just see these plains
backways where we're even seeing trees
that lead right up to the sand dunes.
(man speaking in Mongolian)
- We should just start
charging a few more rides,
make up a bit more for gas.
(Scott imitates engine revving)
- It's kind of ironic.
They're interested in my ride
and I'm interested in their ride.
These are the biggest
camels I've ever seen.
And they got two humps,
which is kind of cool.
But they look really mean
like I kind of struck one
and it just stood grounded.
(upbeat music)
(camel grunting)
(upbeat music)
(camel grunting)
I just wanna fix your hump.
Oh my God, it's heavy.
It's heavy I know.
I wanna ride on this camels.
Let's see if we could strike a deal here.
(Gana speaking in Mongolian)
- She said okay, and
he's gonna ride the ATV.
- Okay deal, deal (laughing).
(gentle music)
(camel grunting)
- Is he friendly?
(Gana speaking in Mongolian)
(camel grunting)
(laughs) It's big dude.
See, this is more practical
it's like double hump.
Can you sit right in the groove.
(camel grunting)
Oh shit.
(camel grunting)
(Justin laughs)
At least she has
something I can hold on to
let's go see Scott.
(camel grunting)
- I think the guy you made the deal with
he can't wait to get going.
(camel grunting)
- Jo jo jo jo, oh!
(camel grunting)
Jo jo jo jo (laughing).
(camel grunting)
(Justin imitates engine revving)
Break, break, break.
(upbeat music)
(motor engine revving)
Ask him how many camels
to trade for that quad.
(Gana speaking in Mongolian)
- [Gana] Eight camels.
- [Justin] Eight camels?
- [Gana] Yeah.
- Eight camels.
Think of the possibilities for each.
- I don't think the rental
company would be too happy
if we came back with, here you go,
eight camels.
- [Gana] Eight camels.
(upbeat music)
- I could feel the quad just
polling and not behaving
like the quad that I left.
I'm like, I think that
tyres is going flat.
Tryna pull over and yeah, it's going flat.
There is certainly no store around here
that sells ATV tyres.
- We should trade those camels.
- It wouldn't have done any good.
You were gonna trade your ATV.
This one's still would have went flat.
We would have the eight camels
and an ATV with a flat tyre.
- Yeah, but at least we can get
around with four camels each.
- [Scott] Yeah, I suppose.
(upbeat music)
I love how the desert just brings
out the most incredible ingenuity.
We've seen it time and time again
from The Sahara and then here as well.
(car engine revving)
- That is pretty slick.
I want to see him put it back on now
that's the trick.
- He just goes in reverse.
He's just pulled the tyre off
and now he's managed to
put a little patch kid in.
(pressure pumping)
Tyres back on, we gonna have to be careful
and ride out the next
120K just on the road.
No more off-road stuff
and it should be okay.
(motor engine revving)
(upbeat music)
I don't know What I did to deserve this
but now I've got another
flat on the other side.
Justin is just coming back
sure to get a kick out of this.
(motor engine revving)
- You've been taking it pretty easy
ever since you got that first flag
and I always just been beating the snot
out of this thing.
(gentle music)
You can't patch it here.
- It's bigger than the other one
so you've got to take it into
the next town to get
patch and bring it back.
- If we get mugged or die
tell the world our story.
Andre, tell the world our story.
(gentle music)
(motor engine revving)
(gentle music)
Eh, heh!
(gentle music)
(Scott muttering)
(gentle music)
(pressure pump hissing)
(gentle music)
- We couldn't find that
extra patch from there,
so we came here to buy
the patch from this shop.
I don't know whether they have or not.
(gentle music)
They don't have the small one
and it's too big.
I think there's no other shops here
and don't know what to do.
(upbeat music)
- This is the panorama
of what's around us.
Nothing, this is the state
of my rear axle and tyres
and now rock.
Thank you, Justin for
knocking that bottle over,
that helps immensely.
(gentle music)
- [Gana] At last we found inner tubes.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
- It's okay, all right,
welcome back, I trust you have
some repaired tyres for me.
Was it a big ordeal?
- Yeah, a little bit.
Just push off this clock, a little more.
Okay, good job.
- [Scott] I'm just glad that it worked out
but now I'm so paranoid to even drive it.
- Have we not learned anything?
Taking it easy, being safe
get you two flat tyres.
(Scott chuckles)
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
- We were talking with Gana about,
can we still see fossil somewhere
other than going to a museum?
And she said the driver
used to actually drive
an Italian paleontologist
out in certain parts
of these cliffs to look
for dinosaur bones.
And she said that, yeah,
there's still a lot of
evidence of them out here.
(gentle music)
Bayanzag or the flaming cliffs
made famous in the 1920s,
when the Roy Chapman Andrews
discovered huge deposits
of dinosaur bones became one
of the most renowned dinosaur
bone deposits in the world.
99% of all the dinosaur
remnants have now been extracted
from the ground here,
but just slow things down
and let the imagination run
wild for a bit, it's fun.
It's something we don't really
get to do all that often.
These three pieces are from the dinosaur.
Just looks like rock, it feels like rock.
(gentle music)
Looks like what could
be another piece here.
(gentle music)
I am far from a paleontologist.
But you would think that a lot
of these things wouldn't
have been overlooked
and petrified bones could look like rocks,
but there's a lot of things around here
that then look like bones.
- Undeniably a bone.
- (laughs) This is a chicken bone, dude.
Well, if that's a dinosaur bone,
then this is a dinosaur too.
(gentle music)
I'm not convinced that
I find something, dude.
- This is that same sort of style
I only suppose that could
be part of a bone as well.
- This could be something
because it's been eroded.
This all been eroded by the water.
So you never know.
It's in there.
- Over the ridge there, these two items
were about this far apart
from each other in the ground
they both have what appears
to be missing in the middle.
Again it could be convincing.
- [Justin] What kind of
dinosaur do you think it is?
Maybe a Whiskey Saurus or something.
Come on, whiskey saurus.
I don't know what I found.
I found something, I like to
think it's the dinosaur bone
and it may not be.
- 90% imagination and 10%
rock makes a dinosaur bone.
- [Scott] I don't know what that is.
- That's a bone, I don't care.
It happened again I am
not a paleontologist,
or anything like that.
I see drastic park couple of times, so
Scott I found something
I don't know what it is.
(gentle music)
You can see that shape again
where it rounds off
and then a hole here
for nerves, for tendons.
- Oh dude, I just don't know.
It just seemed like such
a bizarre oblong shapes.
- To actually get my magic
as you come back like
"Oh my gosh, dinosaur bone"
and you're digging, you're pulling it up
and you're naming it
and the guy big kick out of it.
And I don't know, it could be real.
I think Scott thinks it's fake.
- I have to have proof
and until I do, I didn't
really buy into it.
And Justin, he's a dreamer
and that's a really good thing
that's far from a bad trait.
In fact, I wish I was
more of a dreamer as well.
(upbeat music)
I got them, I got them, I got them.
I knew we were gonna find
conclusive evidence here.
That's a dinosaur.
It's funny how reptiles
probably haven't changed a heck
of a lot since the dinosaur times,
aside from the fact that
they're probably a lot smaller
and can't kill me now.
(upbeat music)
Mongolia shocked me every second.
And I think that today, this might be
the most beautiful country
I've ever seen in my life.
(upbeat music)
It's a never ending Mecca
for exploration and camping.
And there's so much change in
diversity, it's untraveled.
There's not a lot of
travelers tourists here.
As well as there's not a
lot of even Mongolians here.
There's only two and a half
million people in an area
the size of Alaska and it's all yours.
Do you want to go there?
Go there, here, wherever.
You wanna camp four miles that way?
set up a tent, go for it.
- [Justin] I just don't think
people think of Mongolia
as a place to go and to travel to
and it's unfortunate.
It's one of these places in the world
that I think a lot of people
need to come and check out.
- [Scott] From here we go
right back to the airport,
we leave the ATVs behind
and that's it.
And we say goodbye at the Gobi
and we say goodbye to Mongolia.
- We're going somewhere else.
If you wanna know yet
tune in the next week.
That's how it works around here.
- Iceland.
- Iceland it is, might as well (chuckles).
(bike engine revving)
- [Justin] If you want to see a country
that's totally gonna blow your mind
then you better book a trip to Mongolia
because it's something
you need to see now.
The people there are fighting as hard
as they can to keep that
country the way it is.
I hope it stays like that
for the rest of the eternity.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
Even though my body is saying
stay in the desert it feels nice and warm,
we are heading Iceland.
These trips are always about change
and there's no bigger change
than leaving a desert for
the land of ice and fire.
Iceland is a world away from Mongolia
and it's gonna have its own extremes.
And I know mother nature
is already waiting for us.
(upbeat music)