maqh just cruising along

1810/2011 22

Mongol Rally [5]: Uzbekistan

Now we’re definitely in a territory that I had no idea about before going on the rally. I mean I remember Socceroos playing Uzbekistan but apart from that knew nothing about the country. And, as the whole rally, with few difficulties along the way the experience over all turned out to be really good. Apart from Mongolia that’s actually where we spent most time along the way, partly due to the long distance we had to drive and partly due to a bad food poisoning that hit our convoy. Uzbeks turned out to be extremely friendly and always wanted to help, sometimes even too much. It was hard to get petrol in the north, money was best to be exchanged on the black market and everyone drove Daewoo – once you get used to that it was great fun :) Oh, and there’s actually heaps of tourists there.