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Formula One From Your Window: Luxury Hotels for the Singapore Grand Prix - Travelogues from Remote Lands - April 24, 2018



It’s 250 kilometers from Khar Bukh Balgas to the Erdene Zuu Monastery: a seven-day race across the wastes on foot.
“This year’s special edition of the Gobi March will take place in Mongolia. We are very excited to bring our competitors to this beautiful, untouched and nomadic part of the world.” Zeana Haroun from 4 Deserts tells Travelogues. “The terrain will include sand dunes, great rock valleys, and old forests, while competitors will at times sleep in traditional Mongolian yurts.”
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Before Jim Thompson’s name became synonymous with Thai silk and before we heard Australian medical officer Rowley Richard’s stories from the Burma-Siam railway, there was another foreigner creating history in what was then Siam.
Louis Thomas Leonowens, who came to Bangkok as a child in 1862, spent five years of his youth as a resident in Thailand’s Royal Palace, the basis for a major character in the seminal 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam. After crisscrossing the globe Louis returned to the country of his childhood, where he became a Siamese royal military captain, private timber trading magnate, and eccentric hotelier. Today, his Bangkok is still very much alive.
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Mongolia is a big, wide open country, one of the least densely populated places on the planet. Anyone who travels there will tell you that, to get anywhere isolated and interesting, you’ll need to drive. For those preferring Asia on two wheels, this is good news.
“All our Mongolian trips are demanding, distances are long, and it means intense riding days,” Denise Wright at Vintage Rides tells Travelogues. “As Mongolia is a very spread out country with few inhabitants, off-road is present everywhere you go.”
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