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This is the blog for team mONgOLIATH. We're participating in the mongol rally 2007 and will be keeping you updated from the road with this blog. Go to our homepage for more information.

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Archives:

    01 Aug - 31 Aug 2007

UB, also known as Ulaan Bataar

We made it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With two cars
and four team members

To all those that did not believe in us (and we don't want to point in any direction, hint: Vienna)... (more)

24 08 07 - 11:17 | | No trackbacks | Permalink. five comments

Did you know that Fiat Panda floats?

We did not, but now we do thanks to the mongolian rivers..... (more)

24 08 07 - 11:12 | | No trackbacks | Permalink. No comments

Gobi, what a nice garden...

As a result of our great organisation we got into the Gobi desert without a working compass, no GPS and of course we lost the map half an hour before. Result, non problema, we just did some extra km around the desert. (more)

24 08 07 - 11:00 | | No trackbacks | Permalink. three comments

Car fixed...

...maybe. We managed to convince a local mechanic to weld the piece and mount it back in the car. (more)

04 08 07 - 19:22 | | No trackbacks | Permalink. one comment

The day the engine almost fell out of the car...

At 130 km from Baku, after having hit several stones, the engine structural support of one of the two cars (the unlucky one) broke into two pieces leaving the engine without support. (more)

03 08 07 - 20:09 | | No trackbacks | Permalink. three comments

Escorted out of Georgia by the police

At 2 a.m., after having driven for two hours in the worst roads ever, we finally got scorted to the Azero-Georgian border by the police (they were happy to get rid of us!!). (more)

03 08 07 - 20:03 | | No trackbacks | Permalink. No comments