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4 bikers needed | me: support camper \ the ultimate drive...

Route : Brussels to Sydney. Only 1 flight, the rest is cruising! :-)

I am planning a trip with a camper in 2011 from Brussels, all the way through europe, eastern europe, kazachstan, mongolia, china, vietnam, laos, thailand, malaysia, singapore. (yes you can drive 'till there!!!!).
Singapore hitch a ferry to Indonesia (it's just a jump over a pirate-infested canal.. :-)
then drive as far as possible (east timor if it is safe) and then ship to Darwin. Drive further to Sydney... and from there, who knows..

I will drive a camper, and it would be fun to drive along with some 3-4 bikers. You will have support (trailer behind camper), shelter if needed, etc.. I will have company. I'm a cook and photographer, so I will cook as often as needed! :-)

So if anypne plans to do that drive, let me know. I live in Brussels.
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The Ultimate journey

Hi, I am a biker and would love to travel with you through Mongolia and China...Have you any idea of how long you would like to travel for and when you plan to travel..

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I may have got this totally wrong and I don't mind being told so... but I don't think you can take your UK bike into Vietnam. I know that we were looking into this a year or so ago and it was a non starter.

Anyone else know ?
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Re entry into Vietnam

Hi, you are dead right as of this moment Vietnam is all but impossible, however Laos is simple and smooth...The respective border crossings China Vietnam and China Laos are only a good days ride apart. I am up for exit into Laos..Erwinmaes gives a route including Laos and Vietnam...just shuffle the order a bit lol

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Hi Erwin,
I'm driving through Poland and Ukraine, entering Russia on the 20th of May.
Then on to Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Plans to do Road of Bones in Siberia, if possible. Got fully equipped 4X4. When will you be heading off?
Might be going through Belgium the first week of May, to see a mate in Holland.
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Whichever way the route goes the trip sounds good. I will be on my own trip with my mate Mark. We are going East to West RTW northern hemisphere starting in April 2011 so we may meet somewhere along the way. We are arriving into Vladivostock from Japan and making our way back to Blighty.
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Route : Brussels to Sydney. Only 1 flight, the rest is cruising! :-)

I am planning a trip with a camper in 2011 from Brussels, all the way through europe, eastern europe, kazachstan, mongolia, china, vietnam, laos, thailand, malaysia, singapore. (yes you can drive 'till there!!!!).
Singapore hitch a ferry to Indonesia (it's just a jump over a pirate-infested canal.. :-)
then drive as far as possible (east timor if it is safe) and then ship to Darwin. Drive further to Sydney... and from there, who knows..

I will drive a camper, and it would be fun to drive along with some 3-4 bikers. You will have support (trailer behind camper), shelter if needed, etc.. I will have company. I'm a cook and photographer, so I will cook as often as needed! :-)

So if anypne plans to do that drive, let me know. I live in Brussels.
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Hi Erwin, let me know when you get some dates sorted, I might be interested, it sounds like a pretty good trip. Ride safe.
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The situation may have changed but..... when I was in north east KZ I couldn't find a way to get into Mongolia directly as their is a massive &*^&ing mountain range in the way. The options would be

going south and then through the Torugart pass into China (expensive guides needed in China unless you arrange it as a Rally event and it sounds pretty unstable around their with the slaughter of Uzbeks by Krgyz and the like), or

go slightly north into Russia and then drop into western Mongolia which looks absolutely amazing but would be the most remote part of your trip by a long way, good if you want proper off-road with some technical sections. or

go up into siberia then across to Irkutsk or Ulan-Ude then south to Ulan Batur before picking up what I guess is your planned route to fringe the Gobi to the south-east and enter China

My two-cents, hope there was something useful in there! Would love to come but am still paying off the last trip!
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Hi Erwin,

I'm wanting to ride to Japan from the UK in Spring 2011,
when are you thinking of going ?

I could come with you as far as Thailand and then take a left ???

Although I could probably be bullied into going to Oz if your cooking is any good

cheers sarge
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UK to Japan

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I'm thinking of doing Uk to Japan on a motorbike, and wondered what you think is the easiest route ??

Thinking of going April 2011

cheers sarge

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I'm thinking of doing Uk to Japan on a motorbike, and wondered what you think is the easiest route ??

Thinking of going April 2011

cheers sarge
Sarge looks like the easiest route from the UK to Japan is straight through Russia to Vladivostock, tarmac all the way according to latest reports.
USA is a bit more tedious with paperwork and flights/shipping in and out, and we have still not found an agent that can get us to Japan from USA.
By the way i am Mark Going with Martin next April RTW, see you in Japan or Vladivostock, keep posting would love to meet up the other side of the world for a !
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Hi Erwin and all other thread contributors. I will be leaving Norway on June 10th 2011 heading for UB via Russia and Kazakhstan and then on from there. I am travelling solo but will follow this thread and hope I can meet some of you along the way for a or some travelling company if our schedules match.

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Looks like Erwin hasn't been back since he started this thread back in April; not logged-on at any rate. For anyone interested, there's a small group (currently three Brits with others showing interest) starting out from Germany, Whitsun weekend 2011, heading for Mongolia and Central Asia. More details of the proposed schedule here although, despite the level of detail, it's all very open to change.
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Hi Bushman (Mark),

thanks for the reply (what happened to Erwin ??)

I'm definitely not going via the USA, would like to take in India and Thailand and yet still avoid the war zones ?? (and the himalayas ??)

Will end up in Vladivostok at some stage and some chug and will probably be much needed by then

Have you thought of getting shipped to Hawaii and from there to Japan ??
no idea if its possible or not but may be a chance ?

Will keep updates on here as plans progress,

cheers Sarge



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Sarge looks like the easiest route from the UK to Japan is straight through Russia to Vladivostock, tarmac all the way according to latest reports.
USA is a bit more tedious with paperwork and flights/shipping in and out, and we have still not found an agent that can get us to Japan from USA.
By the way i am Mark Going with Martin next April RTW, see you in Japan or Vladivostock, keep posting would love to meet up the other side of the world for a !
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