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Mongol Rally - Moscow to Ufa

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24TheRoad demonstrate their up-market approach to rallying - wine box and glasses! Nice!

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A great mossie-free camp with 24, Fido and eventually the Moonies! Cool sunset, too!

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Another breathtaking sunset...

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We pose by a MiG that someone had carelessly left parked by the roadside! L-R  Dave, Toby (Fido), Jay, Adam and Rich (24theroad) and Dan (Fido)

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Another amazing dead-straight road that charges off to the vanishing point. Makes you want to get your toe down. Which you would, were it not for the profusion of over-zealous traffic cops!

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The actually not at all bad motel we stayed in between Samara and the Lada factory, with the stunningly beautiful receptionist / waitress / chambermaid (sadly not pictured).

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Sammy returns to her birthplace at the Lada factory at Samara!

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Dave with Sammy oustide the Lada Factory!

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Our last sight of Fido before they headed south for Kazakh. They were good company!

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This part of Russia was dotted with oil-wells quietly nodding away to themselves, generating income for Roman Abramovich to buy some more over-priced and over-rated players for Chelsea.

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Stopping for lunch halfway between Samara and Ufa.

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Fido turn up as the bar opens... This was a good campsite with few insects a couple of hundred miles out of Moscow. 

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Jay sets the ipod to play 'Human Fly' real, real loud, as we prepare to leave camp. This had been Scraz policy since Kaunas in Lithuania!

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Fido took this picture of us storming along the road to Samara.

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An ornate Eastern Orthodox church near the Lada factory.

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Shashlick city on the way in to Samara - every roadside house had a rudimentary and almost certainly poisonous BBQ going to feed the truckers!

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The cop shop near the Lada factory where we were nicked for running a red light and paid a light-hearted 100roubles bribe.

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The giant futurist Lada Longship outside the Lada factory...

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Route planning with Team Fido near the Lada factory.

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Jay pulls the special face that only the energy drink known as 'Nine-Volter' can produce...

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How civilised are we? It may be silly-degrees hot, but we STILL make a cup of tea!

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The cops around here drive Samaras! is this a good thing? We weren't sure....

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