Biysk, Russian Federation
been stuck in a garage waiting room for 2 hours watching the Russian version of judge Judy :-(
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just crossed the border in record breaking time 2 hours easy stuff
Semey, Kazakhstan
just arrived at the Kazakhstan Russia border, lets see how long this 1 take. :-)
Astana, Kazakhstan
shopping center with log floom, a ride thing that takes you around the top of the center, loads of shops restaurants and loads more. After seeing that we regrouped and hit the road Joe from the mad hatters had came with me to sleep in the back as he wasn't fully recovered from the night before. After 2 hours we swapped for me to have a rest and Joe asked if I could take a picture of the sunset for him. I opened the sliding door and@
Astana, Kazakhstan
spent the night in a hotel in Astana where we stayed up till 5am talking and where a little loud for the hotel as they kept phoning the room and coming to the door to tell us to keep it down. Check out was at 9am and the hotel made sure we stuck to it haha. Once we were up we went to a garage to collect the beavers car as the had put a hole in they're sump. we then went to the big tent thing which turned out to be a pretty cool
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Police escort with flashing lights to the hotel. The police and the translaters then made sure the woman in the hotel gave us the best price possible. Once the rooms where sorted the police and translaters showed us to a restaurant. After the meal the police chef stayed the night in the hotel to make sure we would be okay.
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last night we decided to look for a hotel, problem was we were miles from the next town and the villages look deserted. We got to 1 village and couldn't see anything so we asked a little boy if he knew were we could find a bankomat (cash machine) we followed he on his bike and he had taken us to the police station. We were all looking at each other thinking what's about to happen here then? We then found out that the village bank machine
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hours behind us. The boys have done amazing to catch up like they have. Kazakhstan is very hot, we stopped for a sleep not far after the border and woke up desperate to hit the road and find a shower.
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finally crossed into Kazakhstan after 7 hours, it wasn't hard its was just really busy. Our big problem was that john didn't have a visa for Kazakhstan which we thought we could get at the border. Well this became a huge issue for the convoy and Johns only opinion was to head back to a town some 2 hours away to then fly to Astana in Kazakhstan and try and rejoin us. The mad hatter are now at the Kazakhstan border putting them only a few
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finally crossed into Kazakhstan, it wasn't hard p
Jamie MacDonald
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Hey all I'm Jamie MacDonald & I'm 25 living in A wee village called Waterside just outside Kilmarnock 20min from Glasgow.
Mark Woodhouse
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Im a third year vet student, studying at Glasgow, lives in Ayrshire
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hey everyone im 24 years old from oban scotland (woop woop) i work down in canterbury kent (not to bad) cant wait for the rally LETS GET IT ON.
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Rachel Black
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Mongol Rally Massage!
After looking at photos and hearing lots of stories of the mongol rally I decided I really wanted to spend some of my summer doing this as I am sure this will be an amazing adventure!
However I do not drive...I thought of a plan and emailed the organisers and pitched my plan. Which is that I'm going to hitch lifts with teams in return for massages as weeks of driving is going to take its toll on everyones backs and bodies!( I'm a remedial massage therapist).....
I thought this was a random idea but also thought, If you don't ask you don't get and it was worth a shot.
...anyway I got an email back from the Adventurists saying that they thought it was a great idea and that I should do it. He did say though;
"I suggest you get yourself onto a team initially. This way you get your free invitations to the events, and once you're on the road you can do whatever you like, hitching, jumping team, whatever.If you manage to get into a team very quickly we might even be able to process your visas."
So now I am looking for a team to adopt me for the first leg. I am contacting lots of teams and understand if you have a full load already.
I am also keen to hear back from anyone who is keen to pick me up along the way or any feedback or advice you have for me.
I'll be at the afternoon tea on the 17th of April so look forward to meeting everyone then.
You can get intouch with me on [email protected]
or http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=512111862
Thanks very much.
Rachel Black x
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