Hampshire, UK
home sweet home. What a rally...
Hampshire, UK
home sweet home. What a rally...
Moscow, Russia
sprint for the connecting flight. Baggage better be at lhr...
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
UB baby!
Bayankhongor, Mongolia
quick stop for petrol and then onwards to UB! Need a cash point that will take english cards...
Govi-Altai, Mongolia
driving across the gobi desert :) halfway to ulan bataar! Car just hit 90 k miles and going strong!
Khovd, Mongolia
camping in a ger tonight (read teepee). Even got our selves a fixer. "what do you want and il get it" = win.
Bayan Olgii, Mongolia
we're in mongolia! Where primary Roads are not actually roads, but gravel tracks... The Hyundai soldiers on!
Tashkent, Russia
after a day of camping since the border was closed sunday, the wait begins to enter mongolia!
Biysk, Russia
powering across russian motorways ftw. You know your back in the (semi) civilised world when shops can take visa cards!
Semey, Kazakhstan
a day of driving and meeting a couple local school kids, has us looking for the russian border, in a town called ceman by the locals....
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px"></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small">Hi</span></p> <p><span class="apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">In July 2011 we will be taking part in the Mongol Rally, </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">The plan is to drive from England to Mongolia in a 1.1 litre Hyundai Getz! The team consist of Adam Greensmith, Steve Masters and Naimash Gajjar.</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small"><strong><u>The Rally</u></strong></span></font></p> <p><span class="apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">The Mongol Rally is hurling yourself at 1/3 of the Earth's surface in woefully unsuitable vehicles to see what happens.</span></font></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small"> Its just over 10,000 miles to the Capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar.</span></font></span></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Imagine yourself completely lost in a massive desert, hundreds of miles from civilisation, driving a car that the laws of physics say should not have got you past the M25 as 3 wheels fall off and a troupe of bandits wander over the horizon. That's when the adventure begins.</span></font></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small"><strong><u>The Plan </u></strong></span></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">We plan to leave from Goodwood race circuit in Chichester and take the following route:</span></font></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small">France,</span></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Germany,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Czech Republic,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Slovakia,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Hungary,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Romania,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Bulgaria,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Turkey,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Iran,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Turkmenistan,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Uzbekistan,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Kazakhstan,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Russia,</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">and finally Mongolia.</span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small"> </span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">You can see our route here: </span></font><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/qCWU" style="outline-width: 0px; cursor: pointer" title="Our Route" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Our Route</span></font></font></span></a></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small"> </span></font></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small"><strong><u>The Charities</u></strong></span></font></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small">We are raising money for both Help the Heroes and Christina Noble Children's Foundation. More information about the charities can be found on our charity page. We believe both charities are well deserving so please give generously.</span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small"> </span></p> <p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">To see what we are in for check out this Video.</span></font></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small"> </span></p> <iframe frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TeeL09NH-SA" width="560"></iframe><p> </p>