Ulan Bator

Team Mamaliga Warriors crossed the finish line of the Mongol Rally, the world's largest charity rally, at the weekend, and returned to Romania.

MamaligaWarriors is one of two Romanian teams that embarked on the rally. Team Dracula Khan, the second one crossed the finish line on August 15.

Team Dracula Khan have crossed the finish line in Ulan Bator of the Mongol Rally, the world's largest charity rally, the team reported on Friday on their official Facebook page.

The members that reached the finish line of the rally in Ulan Bator, after driving 16,601 km, are manager Radu Manea, 40; architect Ovidiu Niculica, 47and architect Razvan Mosneag, 38.

The two teams that left Romania in the Mongol Rally - Mamaliga (Polenta) Warriors and Dracula Khan - this weekend reached Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan, respectively, and their journey included a visit to a body shop in Georgia, meeting other teams in the rally, continual driving to the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan for 36 hours and a lunch served in a yurt.

Nearly 300 small-capacity cars and their teams of various nationalities competing in the Mongol Rally, the world's largest charity rally, on Friday evening parked around the Ancora terrace of Vama Veche, at the second Romanian checkpoint of the whacky rally.

Paul Budan, one of the organisers of the event, briefly explained the rules of the competition.

The Mongol Rally, the world's largest charitable rally, is this year crossing Romania, through Sibiu and Vama Veche, where the participants will be treated to two parties on July 24 and July 25, organisers report in a press release sent to Agerpres.

Raul Crisan has been living in Zaragoza, Spain for less than four years, where he works in online marketing; in the second part of July, he will embark on a trek that will take him to the Mongol Rally, a charity rally seeking to raise funds this year for the British environmental group CoolEarth.

"We miss being able to fix the cars with chewing gum and a baked bean can", and "If you're not lost you need to try harder" are just some of the statements that best embody the Mongol Rally, a road adventure created in 2004 that provides competitors with a start point and a finish line and no other indication.

Some left because they wanted to travel upon a bike named Doyle and stories to tell, others because they wanted to live the adventure and fish on the road there, while others to enjoy a seven-week break from work, and some blaming mid-life crisis.

Petronela Sterea, Cristian Cotan and Razvan Marcu are three young friends gathered together under the Raliotii, rally people, name for a new challenge: taking part in a 15,000-km humanitarian rally to Ulan Bator.

Four Moldovans with a giant cask on the roof their car want to get to Mongolia.