Team As the Kiwi Flies - Mongol rally 2016

Team As the Kiwi Flies, consisting of Brent, Blair, Max and Seb, has entered the Mongol Rally, due to kick off in July 2016.

What is the Mongol rally? It is a charity rally kicking off in London in July this year. The idea behind it is to drive a completely unsuitable car from the junk yard across Europe through the Middle East into Asia finishing in Ulan Ude, Russia. We’ll have to haggle our way through borders patrolled by gun-wielding teens and traverse the arid deserts of Kazakhstan. Our journey will see us climb the snow capped Altai mountains and battle over Mongolia’s vast steppe where no roads exist. If we make it we’ll have travelled around 1/3 of the way round the world.

Why would anyone want to do this? The world has gone soft, us included. We think it’s pretty easy to get comfortable in a cushy job with a soft bed and a food stocked fridge at home making it very hard to give up. This makes us uninterested in adventure and the risk associated with it. Well we have decide to give it up and enjoy the excitement of being lost and broke, when every dollar counts and having only a vague notion of where we'll be sleeping for night. For a while at least..

Mainly though, the rally sounds like bloody good fun and an excellent way to go see some places we wouldn't normally venture to and of course the opportunity to help out our fellow man a little bit.

So how can you help? Let's not forget this awsome trip is all in the name of charity and we're aiming to fundraise a total of $4,000 for charity. Half of this will go to Cool Earth, which works to halt rainforest destruction, and the other half will go to CanTeen who support young people living with cancer. Please be aware all of your donations will be going straight to the charities, we fund the rally expenses out of our pockets.

So if you've got a spare dollar or two, please help us help these two very worthy charities.

If you would like to know any more about either charity please check out their websites below

CanTeen

https://www.canteen.org.nz/

Cool Earth

https://www.coolearth.org/

Thank you for checking out our fundraising page, If you would like to know a bit more about us or track our progress on the rally please find us on our website or Facebook pages.