Team Mongolian Job

6 Blokes, 3 Pandas and 8,000miles - The 2005 London to Mongolia Rally - -1209 days to go

Friday, August 05, 2005

Samara

Finally after no news for a couple of days I received the following text from Ben:
All is going well. In Samara in Southern Russia. We had to stay in the Marriott ***** last night as we had to get our visa registered and all other hotels were full. Tough choice: good night's sleep, twenty four hour bar and a pool, or face arrest at the border! We've had lots of trouble with police. Can't wait to get out of Russia. Its about 36 degrees here now and rising as we head south. Next stop Kazakhstan. Big thanks to Alexei for all his help.

posted by Alison at 9:20 AM

Comments:

You should have gone via the Ukraine - the president there just sacked all the traffic police (25,000 of them) for corruption! Hope you're all well and not yet broke from paying all the bribes.

# posted by Julien : 1:00 AM