Team Ronin | Mongol Rally 2012

Checkpoint 2, Hoffe This town is easy to remember because it sounds like Hoth, as in the battle of Hoth in starwars. The drive there was intense. A huge convoy of cars driving through desert, dirt roads, mountain passes and marsh. Driving up through the mountain pass, I was leading and we passed a family [...]

The Mongolian border compound. Because we’re importing cars into the country we had big fees we needed to pay. Luckily the company organising the Mongol Rally covers it… however it takes up to 36 hours to wire the money, so the border sets up essentially a refugee compound for the ralliers to stay in while [...]

The people who stayed at Almaty met up at a campsite before we entered Russia. This has now become our convoy and we’ve got some wicked people in it. Leaving khasakstan we only had 2 police stops. The deal now with police stops is if one car gets pulled over, everyone stops. It becomes a [...]

Seeing as Rus and I stumbled in around 5am in the morning, we had very little sleep. We woke up around 9:30am still drunk, dehydrated and sleep deprived. We felt horrible. However we had to force ourselves to drive. We met up with the others at around 11am and started our journey. Rus got the [...]

To set the tone…. KASAHKSTAN IS AWESOME!! People are beyond helpful and quality people. The roads are a joke… but driving them is so fun! Food is simple but very tasty! We made it past the border at night fall, so the following drive was very interesting in near total darkness. The roads in kasakhstan [...]

Everyone in Russia is insanely helpful and they are generally an awesome bunch of people…. except the Russian police. To them you are there way of getting a quick buck. You’re literally a walking ATM machine and they’ll inconvenience you in any way possible to get your money. So corrupt and very unpleasant people. Their [...]

When we were at the border getting “checked in” to Russia, we knew we were entering an area marked red “DO NOT GO” by the UK. We told the Russian border guards where we were going and they said, “drive straight to hotel. You stay in hotel. Very dangerous”. We drove straight to a hostel [...]

After a 3hour wait at the border to get into Georgia, we were free from Turkey. As we drove into Georgia the scenery is pretty ghetto. Cows are everywhere just walking around down the road. Batumi We drove straight to Batumi which is a major city. It seems pretty developed on the boulevard, but as [...]

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