Hi there,
anyone know if it's possible to go from Myanmar (Burma) to Bangladesh or India overland on a bike or any other routes from south east asia to India without flying?
Thanks for your help all.

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[QUOTE=KevOK;128998]Hi there,
anyone know if it's possible to go from Myanmar (Burma) to Bangladesh or India overland on a bike or any other routes from south east asia to India without flying?


Amnesty International and Ang Sang Su Shi have asked tourists not to visit Myanmar to avoid support for the hideous military junta which controls that country.

You can ride through China with a guide and minder, if you organise it through an agency 3 months in advance. Check the relevant topics here.

Good luck!

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Hi,

You could try this Email-adress. it is old, but a while ago this lady, who works for MTT (Myanmar Tourist and Travel service), told me she could arange it.
But it will probably cost...
Let us know what comes out of it.

Maarten

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Anybody experienced traveling on his own bike trough China( and Tibet)?
Any sugestions for a good travel agency?
Thanks
Pol

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Hey there!
Im a Malaysian biker & glad to help u mate!
Ive done some travelling my self but mostly backpacking! Love to travel on my dommie but just cant afford it. Where do u want to ship the bike to? (frm sydney)
Singapore, Johore, Port Klang(Kuala Lumpur) Penang?
Maybe we can ride together in malaysia.
As far as i know u cant enter burma via thailand. u may visit the border via thai but transit is not allowed! (i'll find out for u) the burma embassy is just around the corner! Plans have been made to open border burma-bangladesh but I dont think its open yet. But From Bangladesh its all ok all the way to UK!
What you can do is go to cambodia; laos via thai & china (not sure how but most bikers manage to it) Once in China u can use the koarakoram highway to pakistan. from there u can go India, then again pakistan, Iran, Turkey & youre already in europe! or head south after iran to the mediteranean & africa, and then back to europe via any northern afican countries!
I have to go now I'll catch up with u tomorrow!

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"What you can do is go to cambodia; laos via thai & china (not sure how but most bikers manage to it) Once in China u can use the koarakoram highway to pakistan. from there u can go India, then again pakistan, Iran, Turkey & youre already in europe"

You sure make it sound easy! Getting into China could be possible, but very expensive, and require months of pre-planning. Getting into Tibet might be another big problem (but if your wanting to go to the Karakoram Highway, maybe you´ll take a detour north). Ive heard of motorists "sneaking" into China from Kazakhstan or other western borders, but never from Laos. Only one guy did it, but he was on a chinese-registered bike.

You can go to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, but other countries in that region, like Myanmar and Vietnam, seem to be almost impossible to go with your own bike, if I were you I wouldnt bang my head against the wall, but plan to freight from Thailand to India or Nepal, that route seems to be used quite a lot, and maybe that is because its the only realistic one? If there was a realistic alternative, you could probably read about it from here and other places as well. If you insist doing it overland, then China could be the answer, but prepare well. Myanmar, just forget it, cant get there.

When a government does not want bikers to roam free in their country, and you do not even have any common language with the authorities / border guards, its really a hard combination.