AMARYLLIS KNIGHT |
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The Mongol Rally is a 10,000 mile car rally from London to Mongolia - through 17 countries, 3 deserts, 5 mountain ranges, and bandit land... the world is pretty much your oyster. To get to the end teams have gone as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as Afghanistan on what can only really be described as somewhat circuitous routes. What happens to you between London, the deserts, mountains, bandits and wilderness is anyone's guess. In a normal year less than half the teams make the finish line in one piece. It's an amazing adventure, and an incredible insight into areas of the world most people haven't even heard of... What's more, it raises money for some great charites, including the Christina Noble CNCF Sunshine Ger villiage in Mongolia : |
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A typical days dust |
Camels in Kazakhstan |
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The Aral Sea - Usbekestan |
Camping - the castle where Vlad the Impaler was improsoned |
clouds hugg the ground |
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bleached by the sun |
Romeo & Juliet - don't know why they both died |
Communist Graffiti carved into a rock - Mongolia |
Mongolian Cowboy - he rode along side us for a while |
Listening for air - flat tire |
Collecting fuel for the stove of a Ger |
Gas station- border of the Altai Mountains & Mongolia |
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1300 km to Ulaanbattar 400 km to China |
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Oil refinery - Kazakhstan |
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Kids with Guns .. and tongues... |
A Mechanic shop in Eastern Europe |
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Staying the night with a family in thier Ger |
Mother Russia |
Gold is valuable... Grills are left to the children..grand children... great-grand children.. none of them fit. |
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Growing potatoes to keep them warm - Get's to be - 40 degrees C in Mngolia |
Postcards in Samarkand |
A Ger packed up to move.. satellite and all |
Spices in Samarkand |
Odessa : 6" owl, sailor.. and ... |
Muscle baby in Russia |
Sleeping with the car hidden behind tomb stones in Kazakhstan |
River crossing - Mongolia |
Oil money builds roads in Kazakhstan : An asphalt mountain with about 10 people standing on top of it |
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Wild horses |
The cabbage patch at the amazing Sunshine Ger village.. built for orphan children who would otherwise be living in the underground communist heating system in UlaanBattar. |