I'm sitting in Turkey having just driven from the UK across Europe (Netherlands - Germany - Austria - Hungary - Serbia - Bulgaria - Turkey) in a few days. I had to show a covid negative lab test to get on the ferry off Brexit Island, since landing in Hook of Holland not a single person at any border has asked for anything related to covid.

In the coming weeks I plan to cross into Iran and then loop back through the Middle East and eventually back to Turkey. All borders in the region are currently open (from a covid point of view, the Turkey - Syria border for example remains closed due to conflict).

To take your two trips that you mention so far as examples, I'm not sure if you could make it to India right now, but I suspect the Iran - Pakistan border is open. And Pakistan is far nicer to travel in than India in my opinion (having spent several months in India and a year in Pakistan). You couldn't get to Timbuktu, but then you couldn't do that before covid due to the insurgency there.

SE Asia is still off the radar, but then the Burmese coup will probably see the border closed for some time so that is not entirely due to covid from an overlanding point of view. Russia and Kazakhstan are closed which cuts off much of central Asia and Mongolia - that is a big loss in my opinion but it will open up sooner or later again.

Africa is closed on the east side due to conflict, nothing to do with covid (directly at least). West side I think has recently reopened, at least as far as Sengal I believe but Im not keeping much of an eye on it.

Americas I think are open, if that is of interest to you.

So in short I think covid has currently fairly little direct influence on most parts of the world.

Are you sure you are not looking for an excuse not to do the trip? If the time is right, just go.

EO

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EurasiaOverland a memoir of one quarter of a million kilometres by road through all of the Former USSR, Western and Southern Asia.