About us
We are a family. We are not just selling motorbike rides, we are selling an approach to life: Travel adventure for discovery, experience and fun, physical and mental challenges leading to strength, confidence and self reliance. We want you to join our family.
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Nomadic Hospitality
Travel adventure, Arts Promotion and entertaiment. Trekking by motorcycle & jeep; concerts, art exhbitions & fashion shows - interesting events organised and promoted.
A Very Brief History
Anthony arrived in Mongolia in the year 2000 from his home in South Korea. Loved the country, wrote the book, married Urtaa, and they founded Thirsty Horse Mongolia LLC in 2008 to develop travel adventure and promote Mongolian cultural events. The country in 2000 was nothing like it is today. E.g. no cars other than a few Uaz jeeps, and the motorbikes were Izh Planettas and the flat twins with sidecars.
That's were we started. Dave Ramsden and Paul Codling flew out for 3 months to renovate several of them and build a couple with BMW egines. This was a good time and we did some successful treks with these machines. But that said the project proved to be rather challenging and took the company in a far more technical direction than had been intended. A fleet of Chinese bikes bought in 2009 didn't prove to be reliable. But Jesse Thomas and William Knight joined us for the summer to set up the enterprise and that was the start of a useful and pleasant relationship. Then not much happenned for a while, although we did support a local rock band "Bulsara" to national fame and success. We also put a lot of money into buying equipment and setting up the workshops; and the Red Devil Planetta from "The Long Way Round" took up residence in our garage. But then came covid.
Things started to pick up again in 2025. We hit a stable financial period, Jesse and William came back with great plans and youthful enthousiasm, we invested in a new fleet of bikes and we took the Red Devil for a spin too. So now it's 2026 and we're back, with a full agenda of activities under way.
Founders
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Anthony Sansom
A life time adventurer, author, videographer and musician.
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Urtaa Jambaa
A Mongolian national steeped in the culture and history of her country. Urtaa researches and prepares our historical and cultural events and directs the Mongolian side of the company.
International Connection
Partly to promote the company, partly just for fun, and definitely so that we can meet with you: we organise some modest promotional events in other countries, usually out of season. We love everyone, but we have special historical ties with India, South Korea, France, Greece, Hong Kong, the UK, Canada, the USA, Australia, and of course our neighbours Russia and China.