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People Like YouYou are in: Cambridgeshire > Features > People Like You > A Mongolian Adventure  The Dolly Mixtures photo by Jamie Grundy A Mongolian AdventureIf you decided to take a road trip to Mongolia would the notoriously unreliable 2CV be your vehicle of choice? For six friends from Cambridge that's exactly how they plan to get there! But then we're only talking about ten thousand miles and eight time zones here. Although the journey takes them through Europe, Iran, Siberia, Russia and Turkmenistan. But above all you can't question the famous Citroen car's style.  Getting ready for the off The three men, three women and three 2CVs have taken the challenge to raise money for two charities - Mercy Corps and CAMDA. The organisations both work with rural families in Mongolia. The team called themselves the Dolly Mixtures as they like to think they're a well balanced group! Nicholas Carpenter, a student at Anglia Ruskin University and Lucy Taylor a PhD student at Cambridge University are teaming up with green and white 1989 2CV Polly. Rob Gilchrist and Rosie Morley, both keen rock and hill climbers and students at Cambridge University, are taking the trip with a blue 1988 2CV, Holly. While the old-timer amongst the cars, yellow and blue twenty-seven year-old Bob, is the chariot of choice of maths teacher Alan Dickenson and Cambridge fellow Amanda Turner.  Dolly Mixtures hope the road-trip will take between five and six weeks. They know it'll be quite a challenge as Turkmenistan will only give them transit visas so they need to get through the country speedily. Once they're in Kazakhstan and Mongolia they'll face very poor quality roads. On the other hand they'll see Mount Damavand, the highest mountain in the Middle East, go past Baikonur where Sputnik was launched from in Kazakhstan and be greeted on arrival by welcoming Mongolians. They'll be raising funds for CAMDA - the Cambridge Mongolian Disaster Appeal, which is a local charity run entirely by volunteers. It takes a grass roots approach to helping poor herding families that rely on the livestock who are often devastatingly affected by the harsh Mongolian winters.  A photo from Lucy's last visit The Mercy Corps will also benefit. This organisation helps more than 13.5 million people each year recover from disasters, build stronger communities and find their own solutions to poverty. To find out more about this road trip to end all road trips, including information on a fund-raiser in Cambridge on Friday 29th June, look at: www.drivingtomongolia.co.uk last updated: 02/07/07 Have Your Say
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