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The Mongolia Charity Rally is the ultimate off-road adventure. The only 100% charitable rally to Mongolia. Departing from London on 5 July 2008 with a spectacular Mongolian Naadam, it will be just you, your vehicle and 10,000 miles of adventure.

All the vehicles that make it to the finish are donated to a charity foundation in Mongolia. You can take any vehicle you want: make it hard and silly with something completely unsuitable, or take something more serious and open up more off-road country and give the charity a great vehicle at the end.

Full details are on the Mongolia Rally website including how to Sign-up

Don't want to go in July? We can help you travel at any time of year.
Not from the UK? Don't worry you can join us on the route. We are also working on a rally coming in from the US.

Chat about this in the forums.

What is it about? Does a drive from Leicester to Athens in August 2008 using beat up cars all for charity (Spinal research and Matt Hampson) sound interesting?  read more »

Road Trek Morocco 08

Can you and your team get a vehicle from Merseyside to Morocco
whilst having a go at a whole series of madcap stunts and challenges?

Ask Yourself:
• Could you get a photo of a nun in the boot of your car?
• How many nurses in uniform could you persuade to get in your car?
• How many hotel “Do Not Disturb” signs could you collect on route?
• Will your team all dye their hair pink?

Each challenge will earn your team points, the more extreme the
challenge the greater the points – The Team with the most points will
be crowned “King of the Road Trek 08” and awarded the Challenge Cup.

Have you got the bottle, ingenuity, cheek & cunning to take on
Road Trek Morocco 08?

The event is organised by UK registered Charity Pioneer People
Wirral, (registration number 1095310) and raising money for two
charities in Morocco: The Village of Hope and The Nichan Project

Full details on the Road Trek website.

The Sucata Run is an annual driving tour organised by the people at UK charity Gemin-i that takes place during the bank holiday weekend in August . Drive with them from Rouen to Cabo da Roca in Portugal, Europe's most Westerly point, and see some of the most spectacular sites in Europe, meet new friends, raise money for charity and have a truly memorable holiday.

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The original banger rally. Around 4000 miles from the UK, over the Atlas Mountains and off roading in the Sahara desert in cars bought for less than 100 pounds. Many Gambian charities benefit from the rally, funds are allocated after application to the grants commitee. Mostly tourism enterprise, sports developement and Childrens charities.

Why are we going?

The older I get the more infuriated I become with that which I do not know.
Places i've never been to, every country I haven't been to taunts me.. "ha ha you haven't come to see me".

I go into book shops like Borders or Books etc. during my lunch hour and every book that interests me that I haven't read mocks me from shelves. All the American writers i'm reading, the French writers I haven't finished yet and all the Japanese I want to read..

And the Russians !! The Russians wrote big f***ing fat books that i'm never going to get through.. like "Peter Petrov Petrovolovic my good friend.." and i'm like ahh! i'll never know what happened!

So I want to read all those cool books, see all those cool films and go to all those countries.. and this makes me realise that there is no excuse for boredom!
Which brings me back to the point, if you don't go you'll never know.

You can read all the books you want but it's all like empty facts. Like if you read a book about Egypt it's kind of cool, you see a photo of the Sphinx and it's kind of cool, but then you go to Egypt and stand in front of the Sphinx and for seven long minutes you'll stand there with your mouth open thinking *******!!
And your week in Egypt is 14 hours a day saying stuff like NO WAY ! Get the f*** out of here !

So anyway the point of this trip is to go out into the world and see new countries that I haven't seen before. To make things even more interesting i've put various limitations on transport to make it more like and adventure/challenge, and I would like to invite anyone else interested to attempt this epic journey.

Why?

Lot's of people are very excited about the Pyramid Rally and the Timbuktu Rally but they want to go further south. Taking the same
routes as the Routemaster Rampage, the Africa rally is every rally you could want, driving to the most interesting destinations in Africa. You can finish the rally and donate your vehicle at any of the meeting points in Ghana, Sudan, Kenya, or all the way to down to South Africa.

Charities

The event is in aid of the charities Link Community Development, Gemin-i, and No More Landmines. These are all excellent charities that work in many of the countries on the route.

When?

The teams will leave London on the 5 July 2008 - the same date as teams leave for Mongolia and Georgia???

Routes

The choice of routes is almost endless. Have a look at the Pyramid Rally and Timbuktu Rally routes to get ideas for the first leg. After
that, heading south ---to complete---.

What visas do I need?

This depends on the route you take.

When can I sign-up?

The website www.AfricaRally.org will be launching in December.

Departs June 2009 12 to 16 weeks, depending on route and breakdowns.

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