Mongol Rally Update

[Remington]

Keep going strong, chaps!

[FramFramson]

Just reached Ashgabat in Turkmenistan.  Weird place.

Weird by normal people standards, or by our standards? 

[juergen c. olk]

Can
you send any pictures?

[smirnoff]

We did it.
Pictures to follow.....

[Beast of Bukhara]

Well played the LoEK
Top gear, Top rally squad
 

[OSHIROmodels]

Well done chaps, an adventure to be proud of 

cheers

James

[Ignatieff]

Thanks everyone for their support at every level.....

[juergen c. olk]

.Great job,quite an accomplishment to finish that race. In those uniforms you weren't mistaken for a second coming of Dunsterforce were you?.Again Wow!

[marianas_gamer]

Great job Fellows! I still think everything would have been improved by broom handled Mausers 
Lon

[Patrice]

Well done chaps. 

What makes it really foreign is if you compare the flags of neighbouring countries that fly on your pic, with the usual range of flags we often see on hostels and Youth Hostels etc at home

[fred]

Well done. I've added a bit to your fund too.

[argsilverson]

Well done ...

My congratulations gentlemen!

[smirnoff]

First up, the walls of Baku and the Maiden Tower:

One of the gates


Outside of main wall


Another gate


Ignatieff and bullet holes


Yet another gate


Inside the walls


Inside tower


Inside another tower


The Maiden Tower (so called because it was hard to get into…honest). It could have been a temple and an astrology center but was eventually incorporated into the Caspian Sea side defence of the old town

[OSHIROmodels]

Excellent stuff. It looks like they've done a good job of tarting it up 

cheers

James

[smirnoff]

Yes, nearly all of the historical sites have had restoration work done. Personally I think they did a superb job in Baku, Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand etc