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The Best Laid Plans – Mongol Rally
Blog: Ottsworld - 24 August 2011
I don’t think any Mongol Rally team has actually made a plan and stuck to it. The rally throws you too many curve balls to be able to do that. We had our first curve ball in Kazakhstan…it was called time. We drove into Aktobe on considerably better roads. At one point, they [...]
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The Birth of Kazakhstan Tourism – Mongol Rally
Blog: Ottsworld - 23 August 2011
“You tourist?” This is the most asked question of us in Kazakhstan. The crazy thing is that it’s asked everywhere; on the street, in hotels, and even as we are driving down the street other cars will slow down, roll down their windows and ask the popular question. It’s been a long time since I’ve [...]
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Camping on the Mongol Rally
Blog: Ottsworld - 19 August 2011
The best thing about camping on the Mongol Rally is peeing in the desert under the stars. It’s bliss. And it’s certainly better than Kazakhstan gas station bathrooms where you have to plug your nose and try to wipe the disgusting memory from your mind before it scars you for life! I’m not much [...]
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Locals to the Rescue – Mongol Rally
Blog: Ottsworld - 18 August 2011
One of the hardest things about the Mongol Rally is that we are speeding through countries in a car. This means that we really don’t have much time to get out and meet locals or dig into culture which really pains me. In fact – we encounter most cultural/local interaction at gas stations – [...]
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