Mongol Rally 2019🇮🇪 💜💛 21 countries, 16,000 Km, 2 stooges and 1 Starlet! All in aid of Cool Earth and the Irish Cancer Society 🗺 All donations appreciated
Anyone wondering where your donations went we promise the money wasn’t just resting in our account! Delighted to be able to present the Irish Cancer Society with €5360.00 today. Thank you so much to everyone who… https://t.co/vfS8B43ojn
30/08/2019: We finally reached the finish line! 🏁🏁🏁 It took 190,000km, 2 axles, 6 rear shocks, 50 days on the road through 20 countries. We had good days and bad days but overall what a trip! Thanks so much to… https://t.co/LhSDsZ7r56
Not what we expected in country #20 Mongolia 🇲🇳. Surprisingly good roads apart from some sections where there are no roads at all! Arrived Saturday night in Olgii where we found a lot of people, drinking, ATMs,… https://t.co/Q1GGTcZY5G
Entered country #19 Russia 🇷🇺 at midnight. Drove all night racing to make the Mongolian border before it closes at 6! 🚙Link in bio to donate to the Irish Cancer Society 💛 #mongolrally2019#mongolrally#russia… https://t.co/XRWK1oFGiZ
*Spoiler alert: this story contains a happy ending! * After we finally got down from the Pamir highway and back into civilization it was finally time to properly sort out this axle. Our first… https://t.co/3rjLg9J7xI
‘Live stream’ of the starlet in the Pamir Highway!
Our go fund me page is current-ly out of action but we’re working on getting it afloat again ASAP.
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Post 2/2: Oh but the lows of the Pamir Highway were bad! 🙈 Axle broke so we removed it on the side of road. Had to bring the axle back to nearest town to weld it all in all we lost a day with 0 km done. The next… https://t.co/kCPDgOWyqh
Post 1/2: Highs of driving the Pamir highway were these views at 4600m high, entering country #16 Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 and the experience of staying in a homestay. #mongolrally2019#mongolrally#tajikistan#kyrgyzstan… https://t.co/gQyphbPiLf
Sub-contracting in Samarkand! Burg berg and mongol trolly getting there car rose up and our axle broke so we welded it up and plated it. Roads are taking there toll on our car axle cracked in half so had to weld… https://t.co/HLc9LF7x36
Day 20: Country #14 Uzbekistan 🇺🇿. We reached the border with half an hour to spare before it closed, roads are getting worse by the day. Never going to give out about the potholes in Boolamore lane again! 😅… https://t.co/zfYYypyie8
Day 18: Country #14 Turkmenistan. It took us nearly five hours to cross the Turkmenistan border, we even had the starlet fitted with a tracker! Stayed in the capital city Ashgabat, where our convoy grew with 8 more… https://t.co/Eishz01nyL
We’ve been offline for a while due to lack of coverage and internet so here’s a quick recap! Day 17:Tehran -Grogan. It was the first time we felt uncomfortable during the trip so far, so it was nice to team up with… https://t.co/IkM0dfnQPg
Day 16 was spent sight-seeing in Tehran. Pictured here are Milad Tower, Golestan Palace and Tabiat bridge. Back on the road tomorrow, facing for Turkmenistan https://t.co/tYboOGfHgL
Day 15: Took 4 long sweaty hours to cross the border from Azerbaijan to country #13 Iran 🇮🇷. First Impressions of Iran are 1) it’s in a weird 3 and a half hour ahead of Ireland time zone, 2)the drivers in Tehran… https://t.co/glmRk0ACeO
Day 14: Spent in Azerbaijan. Driving from Ganja to the capital Baku to sample the local cuisine in McDonald’s! We were a day too early for the Dundalk match. Got pulled over by a randomer and handed this melon! You… https://t.co/OMDCDIMRcz