The Team Slightly Lost Blog
Just some small insights to the trips we have undertaken raising awareness as we go
If underground swimming isn’t something you have experienced before, then I recommend you try it at least once. Whether Kow Ata encourages you to try again or not is an individual choice. Just over an hour (or roughly 100km) from
Gates to(of) Hell – Derweze, Turkmenistan Quite possibly we have all misbehaved a bit in our lives, but actually going to the gates of hell is possibly a bit extreme. We needn’t have worried, its not really the gates to
Crossing the Caspian Sea to Turkmenistan wasn’t included in our original plans. We had initially wanted to go through Iran. Sadly the time we would have had there would have been short & by the time we added the cost
After nearly an hour we came across a truck stop. We decided it was as good a place as any so stopped. As we walked through the doors, the space opened up into an enormous room with Majilis’ divided by
There was a lot of confusion about how to obtain a ferry ticket to Turkmenistan from Baku on the run up to the rally. After our time at the port & chatting to various people there are a couple of
The reason we drove through the night was in hope we could catch the ferry from Baku to Turkmenbashi that day. As we pulled into the port we were greeted by some other Mongol rally teams who were also waiting
I’m not sure what we really expected of Baku. We hadn’t seen most of the country as we driving in the dark. The only part we really saw was on the final road into Baku. A big long windy road
Its not your usual sign which precedes a country but just before the Georgian/Azerbaijan border at Balakan it’s there. The question is how serious were they being? We had heard many stories of corrupt officials & police scamming several hundred
We had heard rumours that a ferry from Baku to Turkmenistan was due imminently. We had to decide what was the best thing to do. Drive through the night in the hope we could catch the ferry or take it
