Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
we made it, thank you to all we convoyed with and all our supporters! Meet at the finish for a joint matey
Hovd, Mongolia
If Ray can cook in a hole so can we! We enjoyed a good leg of goat cooked in a lovely hole we dug! Also just seen a man fit four more liters of petrol on top of a full tank!
Semey, Kazakhstan
our hair is falling out and our sump guard is on it's last limbs, the gobi boys have dented wheels and two blown shocks, must be a nuclear fall out zone! We're just short of semey making good progress not in the mood for hanging around in the fallout for too long though, hopefully russia part deux tomorrow.
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Awesome night out, saw some dodgy things then in turn invented the stab dance. About to hit the road again and crack on towards Russia for round 2
Almaty, Kazakhstan
we got pulled over in the city for having two illeagal things to the car, turned out the police don't care if you let them give you a police escort to your destination! Drive a British car in kazakhstan and you become celebrities@
Aral Sea, Uzbekistan
had a bit of a problem with the cv joint popping out, had it fixed with aid from the worlds happiest belgium, a little problem with the deceivingly named M32 and it's lack of motorway surface and its excessive sand mounds got rescued by some pretty good vehicles and shot over some impressive jumps and ditches, we're now in Aral looking over the sea from the harbour, well we would be if it hadn't been stolen by those ruskis.
Aktobe, Kazakhstan
oh crap what have we let ourselves in for, all road as we know it is gone! Oh and our as broke for the first time
Atyrau, Kazakhstan
we made kazakhstan eating breakfast in the aptly named winter garden! Waiting to set off in to the steepe
Astrakhan, Russian Federation
camping out in a hay field just out of the city! Enjoying some lovely soup and tuna before hitting the hay before giving kazakstan a go in the morning! @
Province of Volgograd, Russian Federation
A good night out with cornwall to mongolia, gcgb and long and short of it. We did manage to find the only russian bar that didn't stock vodka, we did manage to get the bird to in buy up some though!
<p>Armed with a Kia bought in Fife and a route written up in an art student's sketch book three lads from the UK are driving 10,000 miles across some nice, some average, some bad and some arid landscapes to reach Ulaanbaatar in the heart of eastern Mongolia. Robert Meechan, Mark Rogerson and Chris Smith, all 22 (by the end of the trip Rob has to wait a couple of days into it) will hope into the seats of a Kia Rio on the 23rd of July and head on their merry ways all to raise money for the Mercy Corps and their work in Mongolia.</p><p> </p><p>We have no experience, both physically and mentally, in this type of challenge and our chances of serious harm are high, so why would we do this? The world is just not exciting enough sometimes, roads are just too easy, and why shouldn't a small engined estate car make it on tracks a 4x4 would struggle with? What ever reason this is our challenge, our summer, our goal, welcome to the website for the 2010 Mongol Rally's Let's Get Ready To Mongol team, sit tight, take a look around and please consider donating to the excellent work the Mercy Corps do for both adult and child education in Mongolia, and thank you. </p>