Early Planning for Stans !

[Samy]

Cheers all,

Decided to make the trip after I quit the job and when have time, so possibly will start in May 2015... September/October 2014 will be cold for some part...

Planned route will be : Turkey - Iran - Turkmenistan - Uzbekstan - Tajikistan - Kyrgzstan - Kazakstan - (Russia?) - Azerbaijan - Georgia - Turkey

or

Turkey - Iran - Turkmenistan - Uzekstan - Tajikistan - Kyrgzstan - Kazakstan - Russia - Ukraine - Moldova - Romania - Bulgaria - Turkey

Planned time will be around 2-3 months.

Have plenty time to cook to plan slowly and well.

Would like to hear advice about route, thong 2 care, place 2 stay, things 2 see, etc.

Have 2 bikes '96 R 80 GS Basic and 2003 XT, don't know which one to take yet. Probably will take GS if I will take camping and cooking stuff.

All info and advice welcome and highly appreciated...

[Samy]

No contributions yet !

Ok I begin :

Definites would be:

IRAN: Hamadan, Bam, Karmanshah, Mashad, Isfahan
UZBEK: Samarqand, Bukhara, Khiva, (may be Nukus),
KYRGZ: Issik Kul,

[PaulM]

I did the 'Stans' in 2008 and did all less Iran on your route. If you want to pm me I'll give you a heap of info - it's too big to put on as a 'general post'.
Cheers
Paul

[Lena and Arne]

Planned route will be : Turkey - Iran - Turkmenistan - Uzbekstan - Tajikistan - Kyrgzstan - Kazakstan - (Russia?) - Azerbaijan - Georgia - Turkey

Hi,

I'm not sure if it is possible to cross the border from Russia to Azerbaijan. You will need to figure that out, I wasn't able to finde any recent reports. The alternative would be to take the ferry over the caspian sea, but I guess that's the reason you have put russia in brackets ;-)

I haven't been there myself till now, but from all that i've heart, the pamir highway is worth seeing.

Arne

[Samy]

Originally Posted by Lena and Arne

Hi,

I'm not sure if it is possible to cross the border from Russia to Azerbaijan. You will need to figure that out, I wasn't able to finde any recent reports. The alternative would be to take the ferry over the caspian sea, but I guess that's the reason you have put russia in brackets ;-)

I haven't been there myself till now, but from all that i've heart, the pamir highway is worth seeing.

Arne

I actually live in Azerbaijan. Passage between Azerbaijan and Russia is for only Dagestan residents.
Mentioned that not Azerbaijan but Georgia indeed.

Pamir highway and India and Nepal would be another trip, not this one. As it will make the trip weeks longer

[niello8]

In Kyrgyzstan, Tash Rabat & Song Kul are incredible remote places.

[Samy]

Originally Posted by niello8

In Kyrgyzstan, Tash Rabat & Song Kul are incredible remote places.

Hello Niello,

Tash Rabat at At Bashi? What to see there/what is interesting?
Suitable for off-road ?

[niello8]

Tash Rabat is a yurt camp in the south towards the china border, barely on the map. you have to go off road to get there & the landscape is great for it! Song Kul as well...over 3000m & you can ride up the short grass covered peaks around the lake. Some fun dirt to get there.

[Samy]

Originally Posted by niello8

Tash Rabat is a yurt camp in the south towards the china border, barely on the map. you have to go off road to get there & the landscape is great for it! Song Kul as well...over 3000m & you can ride up the short grass covered peaks around the lake. Some fun dirt to get there.

Sounds good but bike probably will ba a heavy loaded GS
:confused1:

[niello8]

We are 2 up on an 800gs. Others we rode with, there were a couple 1200s. You can totally do it

[Samy]

Originally Posted by niello8

We are 2 up on an 800gs. Others we rode with, there were a couple 1200s. You can totally do it

very convincing... thank you, will give a try