Mongolia Five – The Mongol Rally 2011
  • 2 The Route
  • 9 The Route
  • 17 The Route
  • 8 The Route
  • 12 The Route
  • 7 The Route
  • 11 The Route
  • 10 The Route
  • 18 The Route
  • 6 The Route
  • 13 The Route
  • 15 The Route


View our routeA in a larger map

Our route is a bit of a melting pot of the familiar, the unfamiliar and the ‘where the hell are we?’. Good roads, bad roads and no roads. We can’t wait to get on it!

  • uk The Route The UK! 
    Hello UK! This is where it all starts. We’ll do a ceremonial lap of Goodwood, round the M25 and then head out into Ashford in Kent to get our channel tunnel train. We’ll have already concluded that Jon shouldn’t be allowed to drive that much after this leg of the journey.
  • france The Route France!
    Bonjour la France! We’ll get off the Channel Tunnel, we’ll maybe stop or maybe not. We’re not going to be here long, because we’re on our way to…
  • belgium The Route Belgium!
    Hallo Koninkrijk België! Do we even go there? Not entirely sure. It kind of looks like we do on TomTom, but who knows? Chances are we won’t realise that we’re there – there’s no border control with France so they say. It’ll be a quick blast through to…
  • netherlands The Route Holland!
    Goedendag Nederland! Now, it looks like we do cut through about 15 miles of the Netherlands. That’s enough for me to buy my mrs some Edam. Although, Edam in an ambulance for 3 weeks with no fridge might not be the best ever gift. Then we’re off into…
  • germany The Route Germany!
    Guten Tag Deutschland! Long haul down through Germany really. Probably do an overnighter here, maybe Wiesbaden or Frankfurt. Basically we’re just passing through on our way to the…
  • czech The Route Czech Republic!
    Dobrý den Ceská republika! We’re here to attend the Czech Out Party in Klatovy. Mine’s a gin and tonic please! We’ll be partying hard. Well, as hard as we can do when a) we’re getting on a bit and b) we have an early start on our way to…
  • poland The Route Poland!
    Dzien dobry Rzeczpospolita Polska! We’re going to do a stop in Krakow, it’s supposed to be lovely. This is the last of our short drives as we start heading into the unknown, starting with…
  • ukraine The Route Ukraine!
    Pryvit Ukrainia! Here’s where the miles start counting up. We go through Lv’iv, Kiev and Kharkov before we head down into…
  • russia1 The Route Mother Russia!
    Zdravstvuite Rossiyskaya Federatsiya! Can’t wait to get here, seriously! We’re not actually here for a huge amount of time, but long enough to visit Volgograd (previously known as Stalingrad) site of the most infamous battle of World War 2. Then we’re one to Astrakhan to cross the border into…
  • kazakhstan The Route Kazakhstan!
    Salamatsyz ba Qazaqstan Respublïkas! Here’s where the roads run out and the desert camping begins! Kazakhstan is huge! We make our way via Aktobe, down through Aralsk to Shymkent, then head through Almaty on our way to Semey. Sounds a lot easier than it is, but we’ll make our way accross the border back into…
  • russia2 The Route Mother Russia Again!
    Zdravstvuite Rossiyskaya Federatsiya again! On the map, it looks like we’re just clipping the corner here, but Russia is that enormous it’ll take us a couple of days to make our way via Barnaul down to our last border with…
  • mongolia1 The Route Mongolia!
    Sain baina uu Mongyol ulus! We made it! Now we’ve just got 1500 miles along some of the worst roads in the entire world through the Gobi desert until we get to Ulaanbataar. No problem! Foolproof in fact. What can possibly go wrong?

EASY.

Return to the Homepage