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Rudyard Kipling’s Mandalay evokes a wistful longing for the romance of old Myanmar. Shortly after its 1890 publication, the poem quickly found a new incarnation, when put to a tune for the popular 1907 song Road to Mandalay. Over one hundred years later that sentiment is recreated again, as the Kipling ballad loans its name to an adventure organised by a colourful group of continent-hopping motorcar enthusiasts, all with one eye firmly fixed on history.

United Kingdom motoring club The Endurance Rally Car Association will spend the month of February travelling between two former jewels of the British colonial crown, Singapore and Myanmar. Initially comprised of 70 vintage vehicles driven by racers from 18 different countries, the convoy includes cars most often unseen through the jungles, plains and valleys of Malaysia and Thailand.

The rally drivers and their entourage arrived in the northern Thai province of Chiang Mai on Feb 17, 2015. The team is now just days away from its first major logistic hurdle, an historic crossing of the Burmese border at Mae Sot in eastern Thailand.
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