Hi,

So I’m at an early stage of planning a 2-3 month trip in summer 2018. I’d be travelling alone with my then 5 year old daughter. We’ll go by a (yet to be bought) estate car, possibly with a roof-top tent. I’d like to hear some of your opinions about the route I have in mind:

Berlin - Istanbul:
A week or so prior to the actual trip, I’d drive the car down to Istanbul in one go (should be doable in 3 days?) and leave it there for a couple of days. Then, I’d fly back to Berlin and return with my daughter to start ‚our‘ trip. Yes, I know the Balkans is beautiful. We’ve been there last year. However, since our time will be limited, I’d really like to start in a place new to us, which is Turkey. Also, I’d like to avoid driving super long stretches with my child. What I haven’t figured out yet: Is it even legally possible to enter Turkey with a vehicle and exit without it? Also, any ideas where to store the car for a couple of days?

Turkey/Georgia/Armenia?/Azerbaijan?
This is our actual trip. As stated we’d have 2, maybe 3 months. We usually travel slow, meaning less than 100kms per day on average. Maybe this time even slower, we’ll see. I’m very very keen on seeing Georgia. I’ve heard so much good stuff about that place. Also, I can imagine it’s a great place to travel with a kid. I’d also like to see Armenia and Azerbaijan, but that will depend on the time we’ll have left. But generally speaking, I’m still very open considering our itinerary. Also, I’d like to not plan too much in advance and just see how it goes. My daughter’s a real outdoors-y kid, she loves to explore, climb, animals, etc. We’ll see how she’ll like hiking then, but I have a feeling she will love the mountains. So do you guys have any suggestions what shouldn’t be missed in the Caucaus region?

The way back:
Again, we’d leave the car somewhere in the region (this time possibly for longer, couple of weeks or even months), fly back to Germany and return at a later point to pick the car up. Where in the Caucasus region would you suggest to best store the car? Any legal considerations?

Thanks!
Johannes