The next day, we meet the famous Mr. Mousavi. It turns out that he really is a wizard, and he starts out by helping us to exchange some Dollars in to Rials. For this he recommends an office that is specialized in these matters, and we get ready to go there.
madness
When the shit hits the fan belt and the exhaust drops off
The 4 Wheelies. Image used with permission from The Adventurists
Things break down on the rally, but mostly it’s all part of the fun. Proper Mongol Rallyers don’t whine, they get down in the dirt and duct-tape that piston in place!
Here follows an unofficial list of some of the things that have happened to some of the teams in the Mongol Rally 2014 so far.
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More images in the gallery
A lot of things happen during the Mongol Rally.
Check out our gallery, Facebook-, Twitter– and Instagram-account to keep up with the madness.
In the image above you see Team Running Salted Fish trying to fix their smashed back window with gaffa tape we donated.
A song for the road
The Yak-party at Zimla on Friday the 11th was a resounding success!
We had people drop by to watch a film from last years Mongol Rally, listen to music, have a drink and some food, buy t-shirts for our CoolEarth charity, see Lars lose (almost) all of his hair, and gave people the opportunity to choose a song for us to listen to a whole day in the car!
Say ‘hello’ to Schnappi.
YiB World Domination Tour
Our planned route is long. Very long. And back again.
And although it seems that a couple of destinations have to be dropped (yes, I’m looking at you, Iraq), we’ll still get to see quite a few interesting places.
Check out the list, as it is now.
Visa-madness, Part II
The fun continues. What follows are examples of questions on some of the Visa-forms we had to fill out:
- «Full name of head.»
- «What is your Grandfather’s name?»
- «If retired, write ‘retried’.»
- «Who will pay for you?»
- «Have you been treated for any serious physical or mental disorder?»
- «Did you or do you have infections (contagious) of diseases harmful for the health surrounding society?»
- «Have you ever been a member of terrorist group, human trafficking, weapons and ammunition, illegal drug trafficking and their precursors?»
- «Are you allowed to return to your country of origin?»
And so on…
Visa-madness
The paperwork is really getting to us.
It’ll be great to finally hit the road and only have to deal with extreme fatigue, exploded tyres, roadkill for breakfast and corrupt officials – and all this even before we leave Norway!