Kazakhstan visa is here!

After a degree of pondering about how to go about getting the harder visas in comparison to the Mongolian visa, we decided to try using an agency. How impressive was the service we received! We completed the application form and paid online last Saturday week for the Kazakhstan visas. Sent off the passports to the agency on Monday, and we had them delivered back to us (with the visas) yesterday, a week after we signed up online. The service also allowed us to track the progress of the visa application online.

If anyone is interested in using the visa service we used, it was through a company called Real Russia. You can reach them at http://www.realrussia.co.uk.




The Russian visas are next in line!

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Adam

Rusty Rhino fit for purpose!

After a lot of welding and a few clamps being fitted here and there, the Rusty Rhino was declared fit for purpose and ready for The Mongol Rally 2007.

Now sounding more like a sports car with a new weird clamp fitted to the exhaust, the Rusty Rhino drives no faster, but certainly has passed its MOT!

It has been a week of progress, as we also received our Mongolian visas. They took less than 5 working days to be issued, a very efficient service from the Mongolia embassy and we didn't even pay for an express service!



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Adam

Rusty Rhinos Taking Over the Internet!

We can be found on the Peterborough Evening Telegraph: http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=2230746§ionid=4419

As well as the Chingford Guardian: http://www.chingfordguardian.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1299188.mostviewed.rusty_rhinos_on_rally_for_charity.php

One website is also combining a lot of rally blogs. Some of our blog entries are featured here: http://www.pandarama.co.uk/blogs.asp

For some unknown reason, someone has posted (or attempted to post) a link to our Guardian article here: http://mongolia.blonkey.com/2007/04/01/rusty-rhinos-on-rally-for-charity-644734.html

We also at one point featured on the front page of the peterborough today website and we are still currently linked to from the front page of the Mercy Corp website
http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/

Here as well: http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/whereilive/redbridge/display.var.1299188.0.rusty_rhinos_on_rally_for_charity.php
(copy of Guardian article)

We are here too: http://www.thebestof.co.uk/redbridge/news/36098

Pretty good going! www.rustyrhinos.com and www.rustyrhinos.co.uk is now also active which points to this blog.

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Alex

Interesting statistic and the Rusty Rhino goes for an MOT

It is the Rusty Rhino - so - it failed on....being rusty. Not too suprising...so it is going to get welded up and then it will fly through on the re-test. Not too bad really! At the same time I feel emotional about getting rid of some of the legend that is the rust. Actually I don't, I am writing for the fun of it.

Anyway, for the interesting statistic: There are more bears in Kazakhstan than humans. Nice!




Hmm.

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Alex

Press Coverage - London Guardian 05/04/07

Thanks to Adams superbly written press releases we have got quite a bit of interest in the local press. This is a scan taken from the London Guardian on the 5th of April 2007. They got the information correct...and we managed to get a very cheesy pic in too...can't be bad! Peterborough Evening Telegraph to follow I reckon :)



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Alex