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Photo by Igor Djokovic, camping above San Juan river, Arizona USA

I haven't been everywhere...
but it's on my list!


Photo by Igor Djokovic,
camping above San Juan river,
Arizona USA



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You do have quite a few places where your drive times are completely unrealistic. There is NO WAY you will be able to cross Indonesia in 10 days. A long full day of riding in that country can be well under 300 km. As a general guide from Central Asia onwards cut your distance travelled in a day by half, and then half again if it's the rainy season.

You also have some things that are impossible - as far as I've heard it'll be impossible for you to get to Bangladesh with your own vehicle, and you'll have to go back to Georgia to get to Armenia from Azerbaijan.

You seem to be trying to check off as many countries as you can, and not actually giving yourself the time to visit most of them. It took me 10 months to get from Java, Indonesia back to the UK, and I did FAR less than you (I rushed through most of Europe cause of winter, and skipped most of SE asia because of the Thai guide requirement), and even then I felt a bit rushed in places. There's people who can take two years to do the same route! (I've also met people who have done it in 3 months.. I would not recommend that)

Fundamentally, as chasbmw said, there's no point to planning in this much detail. You'll have breakdowns, parts will be hard to get and you'll be stuck somewhere for 2 weeks waiting on parts, there will be countries you fall in love with and want to spend more time in, there will be other places you can't wait to get out of. There will be people who invite you to your home and take you to a festival or give you a tour through the city - if you turn that down because your schedule is so fixed that you can't take an extra day you're missing the entire point of a trip like this.

You'll have a couple of fixed dates you have to deal with - Pakistan visa is the hardest to work around especially from Belgium, but the China and Myanmar guides you can arrange on the road about 2-3 months in advance (or sometimes less), transport to Indonesia and then to Australia can be done more or less on the spot, and the expiry date of your carnet. You can use those as general goalposts to create a rough plan around, and then everything else take day by day (and adjust the rough plan as you go).
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