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Our plan is to fly in our bikes (brand not decided.. open for suggestions:-)in October this year, and ride for 8 weeks before arriving in Bangkok. We have not decided the route, and would like to hear suggestions. We have concidered Calcutta as our port of entry, but understand that its difficult to cross Burma to Thailand due to Visa-regulations. Anyone with experience from the region, and a suggestion on how to spend 8 weeks on the way to Bangkok... please share your thougths with us.

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I'm a little unclear on just where you want to spend the 8 weeks. Are you planning on starting in Calcutta then travelling for 8 weeks in India/Nepal and then flying to Bangkok? Or?

For info on what to see check out the Travellers Stories section. LOTS of info.

Burma to Thailand is NOT open. Fly over.

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Well, we are planning to spend 8 weeks in Asia, and then end up (or fly in) to Bangkok. The idea was to get as much adventure as possible before eventually riding in to/flying in to Bangkok. One of the problems I currrently have, is to find a site with estimates on how long time it will take to ride from A to B in India, Nepal, Thailand or elsewhere in Asia. I want maximum out of my 8 weeks. Not neccecarirly milage, but experiences.
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Take the mileage, figure out how long you would normally like to spend covering that distance, cut it in half, remove about 90% of that, and you're close... maybe...

This is SO personal it's really impossible to answer. But most importantly, don't plan on much mileage in this part of the world. 250 miles in a day will totally wear you out when you have to deal with the traffic, and will feel like a thousand.

Often your average speed will be 20mph. Other times it will be higher, but never even 60 for a full day.

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Oh yes, this may help, and explain why it's so personal, and you'll fully understand the area too! It took us five weeks to do Bergen to Nordkapp. And five days Nordkapp to Stockholm, taking it easy.

India is a lot closer to Bergen to Nordkapp. Only you have to toss in 1 billion people on the road... and a couple million cattle, chickens etc... and the drivers have about as much regard for traffic "laws" as the chickens.

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Dizzie:

I worked in Burma for a year in the early 1990's. I don't think things have changed very much since then - the government is the same.

Inquire at an embassy of Burma ("Myanmar", officially) and see if they will give you visas and permits for your intended cross country trip. Personally, I highly doubt that they will. When I was there, flying aircraft, there was a military observer assigned to every single flight, just to keep track of where we were going.

If they say "no", then they mean no, so don't, under any circumstances, attempt to sneak in. They have absolutly no sense of humour there. They also have little interest in promoting any form of unescorted tourism in the country.
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Hi,

I tried to get permission to cross Myanmar (Burma). Even though at times it looked like it might work out, every atempt was firmly bloked by teh gouverment. Even when I tried through local tourist-agentcy's witch had connections withy the gouverment.

All you can hope for is enter for a short while at the Thai border.

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