EST. 2007  ·  TWO FRIENDS. MANY ROADS. ZERO REGRETS.

RUSTY RHINOS

From the Mongolian steppe to the Saharan dunes — adventure travel documented honestly, with rust, dust, and occasional mild peril.

7 EXPEDITIONS
19 YEARS ON THE ROAD
20+ COUNTRIES CROSSED
38,455 MILES TRAVELLED

WHO ARE THE RUSTY RHINOS?

TWO SCHOOL FRIENDS.
ONE RIDICULOUS IDEA,
REPEATED OFTEN.

The Rusty Rhinos are a two-person adventure travel team — a pair of school friends who decided, back in 2007, that driving a battered car to Mongolia sounded like a reasonable thing to do.

Since then we've crossed deserts, navigated dodgy borders, bribed our way past checkpoints, and somehow made it home each time. These pages document all of it — the planning, the chaos, and the miles in between.

LONDON UB BEIJING TAIWAN W.SAHARA

THE EXPEDITIONS

CHOOSE YOUR ROAD

2024  ·  THE RETURN

THE MOROCCAN RALLY

NORTH AFRICA  ·  OVERLAND

Ten years on from Beijing, 5,061 miles from London to the Sahara and back — same dust, new stories, and the occasional unplanned detour.

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2014  ·  THE LONG ROAD EAST

THE BEIJING RALLY

FAR EAST ASIA  ·  OVERLAND

8,100 miles. 10 countries. One 50-year-old car. — London to Beijing, where getting lost is half the point and strangers keep saving the day.

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2012  ·  THE COMEBACK

THE MOROCCAN RALLY

NORTH AFRICA  ·  OVERLAND

5,633 miles from London to the Western Sahara — but first, a broken engine in France, an extraordinary cast of rescuers, and a relaunch against the odds.

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2010  ·  THE ONE THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE WILD

MOROCCAN ROAD TRIP

NORTH AFRICA  ·  OVERLAND

5,200 miles in 17 days — stuck on a beach, lost in the High Atlas, and navigating sand dunes in the dark with a snapped chassis. The 'tamer' trip that really wasn't.

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2009  ·  INTO THE SAND

THE SAHARAN RALLY

NORTH AFRICA  ·  OVERLAND

6,000 miles in 24 days — half of them through the Sahara, alongside the Desert Bunnies and their rather more powerful Range Rover. The trip where you hesitate before eating a biscuit in case it has sand in it.

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2007  ·  WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

THE MONGOL RALLY

CENTRAL ASIA  ·  OVERLAND  ·  UK TO MONGOLIA

London to Ulan Baatar in 26 days — lost in the Kazakh desert, a car that shouldn't have got past the Dartford Crossing, and a policeman in the middle of nowhere threatening to deport us.

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