julia & damian's rally blog - 2005: Without a Kazakh visa we cannot get to Russia ...

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03 September 2005

Without a Kazakh visa we cannot get to Russia ...

We are now in the position of not being able to get another Russian visa until next Tuesday. In the meantime time our Kazakh visa will run out tomorrow, the 4th September and Julia has to be back at work on the 8th September !!!

Our challenge. To get Moo Moo (whose sounding very, very rough at the moment) 1500km North through Kazakhstan to Semey, across the Russian border and then head due East across Russia to the Mongolian border crossing by midnight tomorrow. A minimum 7 day journey in less than 14 hours.

Ideas anyone ?

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Anyone out there know if our intrepid explorers have returned? We have tried texting them a few times but no reply.

Posted by: Neil and Jan | 15 September 2005 at 08:23 PM

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