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Post By Yassine

23 Feb 2022
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First of all, most of your route options are currently impossible. Why not go the other way RTW and give Asia a chance to open up again?
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Hi guys,
I finally get the bike and budget ready.
Now I am at paper work and general route planning.
For now, I know that I will be leaving in July.
It will a 3 years minimum RTW trip on my motorcycle, so I have time.
If leaving from Belgium in July, what are my options ?
- option 1 : if I do, let’s say’ nord kap in Norway , then south to st pietersburg’ i will be there in septembre. Is Mongolia, tadjikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan etc to India a good idea ? ( bad season I think)
Russia is currently closed. Also Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. And India. In pre-covid times, you would need to move very fast, directly to Mongolia (forget Nordkapp, easy to do anytime in the future) and back down to Central Asia if you started in July. Unless you are a winter specialist, you want to be out of Mongolia / Siberia by late September to be sure not to meet the first snows. You could then move fast through Central Asia to Iran where you can be warm in winter (in the far south). However, if you have three years to do the trip, it would be madness to spend just a month or two in what, in my opinion, would be the absolute highlights of the whole trip.
- option 2: drive south trough Russia to Iran
Russia is currently closed. In pre-covid times, this would be a good idea - you could pass through Russia to Azerbaijan or Georgia / Armenia and then into Iran. But when would you go back up to see Central Asia and Mongolia? You will need to backtrack as Turkmenistan is closed, and I believe it will stay closed for foreigners for quite some time.
- option 3: soit trough balkans’ then Turkey’ Iran etc
This would work. You could move on to the Middle East which is currently all open for travel.
- Option 4: Africa trough east costa ( Morocco etc)
Morocco is on the west coast, the Mauritania border is difficult at present. I think Morocco may still be closed too. Maybe this route will work later in the year, maybe not.
- option 5: Western Africa , but what’s the easiest way to reach Egypt from europ by motorcycle ?
I think you mean East Africa. The east coastr route is closed, Ethiopia is closed due to civil war. To reach Egypt I think you need to ship, not sure if motorcycles are allowed to cross Sinai. If they were, you could try Turkey - Iran - Iraq - Jordan - Egypt. This has been done by one Swiss couple recently, but they were in a camper, not a motorcycle.
Asia is a must go for me, but driving there after septembre is maybe not a good idea.
If I start by Africa, reaching the west side seems complicated.
Any advice is more than Welkom
Cheers,
Yassine
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