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812/2011

Singapore

After craziness of the Mongolia I’ve got myself a bit of a different experience visiting Singapore on my way back home. And to understand the shock that one can experience flying between these two countries imagine that there’s about twice as many people in Singapore (just over 5 million) but the country is almost 2,500 times smaller than Mongolia! No wonder there’s so many skyscrapers, all these people have to live and work somewhere. But it’s a nice place to visit especially if you like shopping, the only problem is the humidity that I’m not a big fan of.

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410/2011

Mongol Rally [3]: Russia

And we’re in Russia, another positive surprise of the Mongol Rally adventure. Places we went through were mostly very well developed, roads really good and petrol stations just… well, normal. As we found out later in the trip that’s not always the case :) Russians are very proud of their country and its history and you can see it everywhere. Oh, if you ever go there, even basic few sentences in Russian come very handy and they really appreciate you trying, especially if you’re from Australia.

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2909/2011

Mongol Rally [2]: Ukraine

Another country from our Mongol Rally adventure and the first one we were warned about by previous year’s rally teams and by people from Poland (that seems to be the norm by the way, everyone tells you bad stuff about the neighbouring country): Ukraine. Fortunately we were positively surprised and had a really good time there. We did however stick to main roads and big cities and comparing our experiences with other teams that didn’t do so it seems like that was the right idea.

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2009/2011

Prague

Before we get on the Mongol Rally route let’s go to Prague when we were still very much in a “normal tourist” mode. We got to spend a very nice weekend there enjoying cheap beers and for most time nice weather. If you don’t mind crowds of tourists, come for a stroll.

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1209/2011

Mongol Rally 2011

We made it! After 38 days of driving we managed to finish the 2011 Mongol Rally and get from Czech Republic to Mongolia through Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. As you can imagine I’ve got lots and lots of photos and will definitely share them here, especially that some of them were from places people wouldn’t normally consider visiting. But for now as a small preview few photos that will hopefully show that we had an awesome experience but at times it was a pretty hard work too.

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