If crossing the United States on a rickety 3 speed bicycle sounds fun, or if hitchhiking through South America with 100 bucks and a knapsack sounds more your speed, then this is for you.
The Mongol Rally is a newer anual trek started by some crazy Brits that starts in London and finishes in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash across ¼ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles, there is no carefully marked course, there are no professional drivers, fast cars, or even good cars. It's just you, your shite-mobile and thousands of miles of adventure. Not only do we provide the world's most extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The Mongol rally is a charity event that raises money for an awesome charity with a slightly ridiculous name 'Send a Cow'.Actually, there is one real rule on this trip, and that is that your car must have an engine smaller than 1 liter, power-wise. That's your Ford Fiesta or Fiat Panda, or something to that effect. After all, what would be the fun if the only thing you had to worry about was finding a gas station.
These guys are truly nuts, as one of the routes you can take sends you through the mountains of Turkey and Iran, up through Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Siberia and Mongolia. I'm sure the scenery is wonderful.
Anyone speak Turkic? Russian?
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