Experiences labelled with 'ulan bator race'

Travel Off the Beaten Path in the Mongol Rally

Published March 19, 2008
Kristin Cowles, Editor-in-Chief

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 ...

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