Endurance Rally

Drive a car - any car - around the world.

Yeah, we're still wondering if we're going to make it.

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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.

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.

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

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Ever fancied driving across the Middle East to Pakistan? Well, you should. This route is one of the most exciting you can take, through some of the most beautiful regions in the world to an incredible country.

The road will cross out of Europe by way of Bulgaria and Turkey. Across Turkey's Anatolian plain, the one time cradle of civilization. You'll pass the mountain where Noah ended up after the Biblical flood before crossing into Iran. Once in Iran you won't want to leave. But you'll have to push on. From Iran's desert south it's a brief border crossing into the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, immense mountains, milk tea and cricket in Kashmir. And forget the rubbish you've read in the western press, Pakistan isn't full of terrorists...

What visas do I need?

Quite a few. Depending on the route you take, this could vary, but Iran and Pakistan are pretty hard to avoid. Getting both can be a tricky affair but we'll be helping out teams with some good contacts we've got, or the "know how" on how to pass a bribe in Urdu and Farsi.

When can I sign up?

The Pakistan Rally is a complex rally to organise and we're keen to hear from anyone who can help out with the logistics. Due to the amount of work still to be completed, sign-up for the Pakistan Rally will be opening sometime in 2008 for a winter 2008 departure. Make sure you are on the mailing list to be the first to grab a place.

Anything else?

This rally is also going to have a bit of a surprise. We are still putting this together...more details coming soon. Our lips are sealed, but yours aren't so have a good natter about this in our forums..