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Kilroy/ChillOut 8 november 2012


Cooking Charity Chicks

• Three adventurous women• Adventure can be well combined with doing

something good for others?• We created an organization, raised money

through charity dinners and sponsors - and then we bought an ambulance!


We earned money for the travel by preparing charity dinners and events.


From London to Ulaan Bataar


First we left Oslo


England


Start Point: Woburn Safari Park


He view from «the window» in the back of the ambulance.


France


Italy



Slovenia



Croatia


Elin trying to slip in among the charter tourists, for fun


Bosnia and Herzegovina


• Sarajevo – still marked by war


Tunell-Museum, Sarajevo


The air-conditioner broke down…


And despite the new «air-conditioner»..


… "sweat" got a new meaning.


Montenegro



Albania



Traditional food at Oda


Replacing Nina by some grapes? Elin was a little bit skeptical ....


Macedonia



Greece



Turkey




Visit with friends from Couchsurfing


Cappadocia (Goreme in Turkey)



Iran


Trading money at the «black market»


We made friends in Iran




Nature Cleaners – working for a cleaner Iran!


We picked up visas to Turkmenistan at a Post Office in Tehran!


But - We took our time, however, for a night of camping with the friendly Iranian

people before we left the country.


Turkmenistan


It took us 56 hours of constant driving, from Amol, Iran, trough Turkmenistan, to the border of Uzbekistan..

… to get out of Turkmenistan in time before the ending of the visa.


Ouch! Another bump... “Sorry!” From the back: Fuck off… 30 km/hour from now on….


Uzbekistan



Oman - He welcomed us to his home!We did not know at that time, that it included his mother's birthday, Ramadan dinner, sleeping over at their terrace and stay till after lunch next day....



The extended family


Kyrgyzstan





Kazakhstan


Soviet Champagne – a memory for all travellers by train (and others who meet them!).




Russia


Bernaul and the eastern Sibir


Border Passages went like a breeze – no one tried to check through the car.

(Wonder why?)


We created a good atmosphere at the borders - “popping out" from the hatch


Mongolia


The country of Genghis Khan - and buddhism.


Camping at the border station, 25-hour waiting time for the registration of the car.


Keep the sun on the right side, and you’ll get there!


Dried clothes and sandblasted clothes, same same… but different.


The grocery store in the desert.



Hovd; the biggest city in the west, were we visited the Norwegian school

Memorable lodging?



We did our best to

squeeze in three people in the twin -

someone had to sleep in

the middle!


But some places was more unique than others..


Todays menu? OK – so with 2 chefs and one food blogger, our objective was not

nutrition or rations, but rather different flavours and often a bottle of wine and assorted tea.


We stocked up car accessories from Torshov bilrekvisita!


just checking …..


But we ended up getting all the way to the Gobi desert before we had our first, AND last flat tire.

(Eehm…. it was quite flat, even girls would say that.)


And after 5 days crossing the Gobi desertWe arrived at The Final destination – The Goal

Ulan Bator and The Finish line!


In a car,with 3 seats and two hospital beds,

we drove over 1/3 of the earth's surface, through 19 nations.

“And now, from this Monday on, our Norwegian ambulance will do its duty in the

steppes of Mongolia.”


Thanks to Go Help for maintaining the ambulance in Ulan Bator. And thanks to all of our helpers, sponsors and joyful travelers whom have been a part of this travel and/ or charity rally.


We have collected and donated 23 146 $ (128,000 NOK) in addition to a 2006 Ford

Transit ambulance.

Go Help, organizers of the Mongolia Charity Rally, has received ambulance, camping equipment and car gear as well as 3 250 $

for maintenance of the ambulance and for other projects.

Flouregin future has been given 13,000 $, mainly bookmarked education for youth at college and universities.

A Chance to Dream Again received 5 450 $, to work with and care for street children and children from poor families.


• A British organization (NGO) working on humanitarian projects in Mongolia

• Organizes annual charity rallies• They have an ambulance project in Mongolia:

ambulances coming are maintained by Go Help, and not by the user.


Flouregin future (NGO) They run a community center (soon two), where they provide families in the neighborhood to participate in activities, pick up monthly rationed food and coal.

They work with education for children, food program and other activities that gives a better life to many people around them.


A Chance to Dream Again (NGO)They bought a plot of land, animals, and a ger (tent), where they plan to build an orphanage or children's center. They might start with a daycare, so that mothers can work and earn money for the family. Due to poverty and alcoholism there is a tremendous need for caretakers.

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