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Travel Off the Beaten Path in the Mongol Rally

Published by Kristin Cowles, Editor-in-Chief

Country: Mongolia

The Experience

Not for those faint of heart the Mongol Rally is a choose your own adventure of sorts, where participants set out of London, England and travel to Ulan Bator, Mongolia . The organizers of this race do not believe in providing you with a route, and actually encourage you to travel off the safe path and get into some trouble. Not only does this journey entail complete self reliance in terrain that is unknown to most, one of the most important rules of the Mongol Rally states that the drive must be done in a crap car with an engine that has no more than 1 litre of power. The race holds no recognition for the first one to complete the trek, that traditionally entails about 12,800km - 16,000km of driving over three - four weeks. Portions of the proceeds go towards charities and cars are left were laid and donated to local charities. In 2006 of the 167 teams that set out only 117 made it to the finish point. If looking to forge on the front less traveled this is a must do!

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Mongolia - Lonely Planet
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Elsewhere on the Web

Mongol Rally - Official Site
The adventure kettle is on and more mayhem and raising sacks of cash for awesome charities is on the cards...
Mongol Rally - Wikipedia.org
The Mongol Rally is an automobile rally that begins in London, England and ends in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. It is described as the "greatest adventure in the world" and requires competing vehicles to have an engine displacement of less than 1000cc.[

Media References

Banger heading for Mongol rally - BBC (television)
Simon Hunter reports on two men who are about to drive halfway around the world, in a banger they bought for £60.

Language Guides

Japanese , Mandarin , Russian are some of the languages spoken in Mongolia. If you know of a freely available phrase book or podcast for one of the missing languages, let us know!

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