30Mongol Rally [9]: Mongolia!
Final leg of our crazy adventure: Mongolia. Mere 1800km that took us 10 days to drive in cars that were falling apart because of bad roads or no roads at all. But we stuck through it and after 38 days since the Czech-out party made it to the finish line! We've driven 12,863km, used 927 litres of petrol and raised over $3000 for awesome charities and our car (which was donated too). Once again massive thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
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1. Locked overnight in the compound on Mongolian border
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2. And we're off, first the roads were not too bad and we thought a week should be plenty to get to the finish line
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3. Car still intact
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4. The end of the road
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5. Nice camping spot, the only problem was to get far enough from the 'main' road to feel safe
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6. During following days roads became slightly worse
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7. One of probably 3 signs we saw along the way
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8. When we got to this car they were already waiting for good few hours for someone to go past and we were about 2 hours driving from the closest city
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9. Closer look at their tyre... on the plus side when it got replaced we got one more car in our convoy
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10. First proper water crossing, should we drive through?
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11. Or maybe use this bridge which was marked as closed and not to be used
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12. We still opted for the bridge
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13. Our average speed was so low sitting on a roof was not a problem
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14. Camel
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15. Here we didn't have an option to use a bridge
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16. One and only sleep in the car after locals 'asked' us to leave our camping spot at night
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17. Cars slowly falling apart, here our friend's car suspension being fixed by a local truck driver
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18. Typical lunch break in the middle of nowhere
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19. After we lost our roof rack from constant shaking on terrible roads we had to do some serious repacking, good we were in the convoy
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20. Absolutely nothing around for miles and miles
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21. Oh, falling roof rack smashed our windscreen
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22. One of 2 tows through some serious water
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23. Which way?
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24. Close up of the awesome road
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25. And Matiz finally died
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26. We got our roof rack back on but we lost our back window in the process
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27. Tarmac again!
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28. Best convoy ever :)
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29. City gate
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30. We made it!







Polski
January 28th, 2012 - 22:48
Jeszcze raz powiem, niezapomniana wyprawa. Chęnie posłucham o niej więcej jak uda nam się gdzieś spotkać.