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Ulaanbaatar in our Sights
Blog: Ottsworld - 26 September 2011
I woke up giddy, excited, anxious, and a bit sad. This was it – our last day of the Mongol Rally. It started exactly 5 weeks earlier on a Saturday in London. Now here we were 300 km from Ulaanbaatar Mongolia’s finish line. The day started like any other; local visitors bringing gifts of food [...]
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Desert Illusions – Mongol Rally
Blog: Ottsworld - 19 September 2011
We slowly moved deeper into Mongolia where the foreign landscapes, people, and towns started to become normal to me. We were moving from western Mongolia into Central Mongolia and the Gobi Desert; from Altai to Bayankhongor. The landscapes changed dramatically as we left the Altai mountains and hills behind and had nothing but perfectly flat [...]
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Driving in Mongolia
Blog: Ottsworld - 15 September 2011
We get in the car, adjust the seat so that the pedal distance is just right, buckle up, and put two quarters in the slot. I choose 3 players, level of difficulty, my route, start the engine, hear the rumble of a muffler-less rally car, and I’m off…as if I’m in a video game. Driving [...]
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Slowing Down – Mongol Rally
Blog: Ottsworld - 8 September 2011
Since we had made it into Mongolia – it was time to slow down and enjoy our surroundings. One problem, Rick had a flight to catch. He hitchhiked a ride with another team to Khovd to try to sort out his flight issues while Dave, Deb, and I took a slow day of filming and [...]
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Lost in the Mongol Rally
Blog: Ottsworld - 5 September 2011
We are traveling in Mongolia with a map that is 5 years old. This normally wouldn’t be that big of deal, but in a country where roads are only dirt and they change every season as new tracks are made, this IS a big deal. Every day we start off confident of our direction. Then [...]
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Lady in Terelj National Park
Blog: A Lady in London - 19 July 2010
Driving out of Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian countryside unfolds like a blanket of fields and mountains. The impossibly big sky with its cumulus clouds and cool, fresh air lend the area an unparalleled vastness. Suddenly a figure appears over the crest of a hill. Tall, bright, and gleaming in the sun, it’s difficult to make out [...]
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Photo of the Week – Mongolia
Blog: Ottsworld - 5 February 2010
Gobi Desert – Mongolia Grazing Goats I chose this photo this week in order to bring more visibility to the current state of emergency in Mongolia. There are a lot of weather disasters happening around the globe right now, and Mongolia is no exception. The extreme cold weather has been the cause of death to 1.7 million [...]
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Modern Nomads
Blog: Ottsworld - 3 November 2009
-As written for Asia LIFE magazine Oct. 2009. Speeding along the dirt tyre tracks past camels and goats, the bus randomly stops in the middle of the desert to let a family off where there is no sign of life. The bus lurches up and down as if it were a roller coaster ride, yet there [...]
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Naadam – Mongolian Manly Sports
Blog: Ottsworld - 1 October 2009
View Naadam Photography Snapshots of the Naadam Festival I woke up to hear our jeep ignition turn on and leave the guesthouse. I laid in my sleeping bag disturbed; wondering why Shat sped off at 6AM without saying goodbye. I felt a bit jolted as we had spent 3 days with him bonding in the jeep, [...]
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