Drove into Ulaanbaatar at 4pm yesterday, then celebrated on the finish line for the evening. More photos and stuff to come soon!

p>Got to Almaty, Kazakstan! Our car is ok, all the better after being filled with petrol! We did actually spend 2 hours tinkering with just about every part of the engine before realising that she had actually ran out of petrol! This was after our car engine cut out when we were half way across the final border gate out of tajikistan - what a place to break down! It was simply too cold for the engine and the spark plugs had so much dirt on them that some were actually bridging the gap! Might make the finish before end of August if we`re lucky! Met a few teams here in Almaty and heard stories from locals who have seen them. Have an invite to be on national TV but dont think we have time! A few teams have totally knackered cars after doing the pamirs so we`re both quite lucky to still be going! 6500 miles down, about 3000 to go!

So here are some more photos from the trip…
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We made it to Sworde Teppa in Tajikistan!

Tajikistan threw some interesting challenges at us - firstly we arrived at a bridge crossing at 10am after following a dirt track for 2 hours, only to find that the bridge was closed until 7pm that evening! A local restaurant owner let us sit in his garden and pick apricots off his trees for most of the day and we met up with 3 other teams, team wolfson, if genghis can we can and a red fiesta.

At 6.30pm we crossed the bridge and had to drive on through the night - the road was only open at night as there were road works during the day. We ascended into the mountains and had several stops because of things like stretching credibility loosing all their lights whilst driving up a sand bank and gengis cans sump guard dropping off. Then we found the tunnel… 4 feet deep in water and about 5 miles long! Our car breezed through, being 4 wheel drive, but the micras struggled and we had to tow out Gengis Can.

Despite all that we arrived at Sworde Teppa on Friday 8th August and have been staying here for the weekend. We gave them the white water raft, disco ball, kids games, stationery and other bits and pieces, which they absolutely love. We`ve seen the building including the english library and movie room. We`ve decided to put all future donations towards Sworde Teppa because we know the money is going to really worthwhile stuff and isnt wasted on expensive cars and stuff.

New Donation link: www.justgiving.com/boarswordeteppa

Once again thanks to everyone and all the companies who sponsored us and helped us get this far!

Some pics:

Made it to Uzbekistan and met up with loads of teams in Bukhara.

Currency here is worthless and our pizza meal (yeah, actually going to an italian restaurant in uzbekistan!) came to  $15 each, which was the equivalent of a whole table with piles full of Uzbek Sum.

We convoyed from the border with streching cred and the gobi ambulance (google them to see their sites), found a hotel and texted a load of other teams including the allegro, spank the money in their dodgy volvo, the highly painted SJ and anotherr micra team.

Taking a rest day here today to relax as the past 2 weeks have been pretty hectic!

Turkmenistan was very hot and dusty. Drove through a sandstorm. Stretching cred needed to clean their air filter half way through.

Iran was awesome and the people were really friendly - everyone would wave and beep at us on the road as it is so rare to see a foreign car. Got stopped once at an army checkpoint and had to show passports but no big deal.

Turkey was a long haul, 1300 miles in a single country! Camped at a beach campsite one night and stunned the guy in the shop by buying 30 bottles of beer!

We`re in Belgrade, Serbia. Got stung 130 euros car insurance on the border. Stayed in Belgrade last night in a hostel with secure parking - secure parking was the priority for us, what with our less than low profile jeep with boat on the roof and stretching cred`s stretched micra!

Carrying on to Bulgaria today, probs going to stay in Sofia, then Istanbul tomorrow!

Will get photos soon, couldnt upload them here though as the website is playing up.

We`ve relaunched our fundraising site at www.justgiving.com/boar as we were concerned about the security of the willwemakeit.com site recommended by the organisers. Please rock over to just giving and, er, just give us some cash!

Donations go 100% to charities in Mongolia (this site is for Christina Noble Childrens Foundation) and just giving also reclaim and extra 28% on top of your donation from Gordon Brown.

We`ve nearly got a complete line up of sponsors and will be anouncing the complete list of great companies who are helping us and our charities out very shortly!

Lots of VERY exciting things have been happening to Team Boar recently, many of them in Wales.

Sam (the car) got a bit of abuse this weekend when we took her off roading in Wayellleeesss to meet up with some of the other teams on the rally. We ended up spending alot of team pulling cars out of ditches, particularly Stretching Credibility`s Stretched Micra, which actually fared pretty well, all things considered. We also helped out A Very British Adventure when they decided to test the aquatic capabilities of their panda, and found that in fact, it had none. Pics are in the gallery .

We also took Sam down to the beach to do a photo shoot with the lovely ladies from Warwick Canoe Club, you can see the photos in the gallery .

And here she is, complete with raft, roof bars and a highly orange bull bar!

Fitted the auxiliary electrical distribution board, which will power the fog lights, mains inverter, interior lights, CB radio and high power 12v items. Its powered direct from the battery using very fat cables!

And this rather pimp extension socket. You can also see the new racing style power control console on the passenger side.

The interior..

More in the gallery…

We are in the final stages of acquiring a white water raft to take out to Sworde Teppa in Tajikistan!

Sworde Teppa have given us a list of items, which we are trying to acquire. Its a bit like a scavenger hunt!

So we`re picking up a white water raft, and rather than leaving it packed down in the back of the car, we are actually going to strap it to the roof of our jeep! This will add some comedy value to our plan, and hopefully also give us some additional sponsorship opportunities, since we can get people and businesses to sponsor the raft too!

If you can get any of the other items on the list, please let us know! If you can sponsor us, rock over to our donate page!