Mongol Rally, image courtesy of The Adventurists (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

What: the Mongol Rally 2012

Who: aimee and Dane (aka Finn), of New Zealand.  Otherwise known as Lemur Attack Force.

When: mid July 2012 until mid-late August. 2012.  Hopefully. If all goes well.

Where: From London (UK) to Ulan Bator (Mongolia).  Via Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Mongolia :)

Why: To raise money for charities both in NZ and Mongolia. In NZ – we’re donating to Women’s Refuge, the SPCA and the New Zealand  Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Appeal.  In Mongolia, it’s the Lotus Children’s Centre Charitable Trust.  You can donate here, or help in other ways here!

Also because we have a weak survival instinct, and impulse control issues.

Stalk us:

Twitter: @LemurAttkForce, @teh_aimee, @dene

Facebook: Lemur Attack Force

Want to know more??

* sigh * Fine :)

More on the team members is on our The Team page.

The Rally

The Mongol Rally starts in London (the capital of the UK) and ends in Ulan Bator (the capital of Mongolia).  It’s some 10,000 miles – 16,000 km – or, as some like to point out, a third of the earth’s surface.  Which is _lots_.

It’s not a race – some teams do it in three weeks, some do it in several months, depending on their luck, their car, and their plans for the trip.  Some continue travelling through Asia afterwards :)  The one thing most teams – about 200 each year -  have in common is that the race requires that cars are ‘generally considered crap’.  Less than a decade old, but no more powerful than 1.2 litres.  Of course, the race organisers being sensible people, these rules can be relaxed in two ways:

• one can be driving a public service vehicle which the Mongolian govt would find useful, such as an ambulance, taxi or firetruck.
• one can pay the organisers a little more money (which proceeds go to charity) to upgrade one’s allowable stats.

Some mad people also do it on motorcycles…