The Challenge

Autumn 2007: We are two girls with a major dilemma... where to sun ourselves next summer? Faliraki and Magaluf frankly seem a bit passe and Cornwall doesn't really hold the kind of excitement we're after. Hence began some serious overuse of that wonderful thing known as google.

When we first stumbled across the Mongol Rally is was a bit of a drunken joke, something to chat up hot boys with, they generally seemed impressed! However six months on and it's now got to the stage where we've paid a certain amount in entrance fees and told pretty much everyone we know that we are going... and so it seems that for the sake of our dignity, if nothing else, on the 19th July we will be leaving for Mongolia!

Not only will we be heading for this apparently random choice of country a quarter of the way round the world but we actually intend to drive there in a car with about as much power as a milk float across roads that are either terrible or nonexistent and through countries you'd be forgiven for thinking were made up (kyrgyzstan?!). One of us does have a geography degree but unfortunately she wont be putting her beautifully honed map reading skills to any use as most of the countries in question don't believe in maps, and even google earth finds the whole area a bit overwhelming (seriously give it a go!).

Every great adventure has a purpose and we'd like to iterate that ours is not the pursuit of a perfect tan (after all one of us is half Irish and so simply can't). The real reason we're putting ourselves in mortal danger is for the sake of some very good causes, which are the Mercy Corps Mongolia and The Christina Noble Foundation, you can find out more on the Why!?! page.