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Ideally we want to take in the Pamir Highway in this time
Why? To say you have 'done it'? There are many more roads that you will not have 'done'. Don't worry about it.

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There are alot of pros to avoiding the Pamir Highway at this point: Save money on Visas, Fuel etc, Spend more time with people and places we like on our journey, more freedom with the route etc.
In ten+ years time the money won't be part of the memory. What will be in your memory ? Looks like people + places. Make your decision based on that.

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Why? To say you have 'done it'? There are many more roads that you will not have 'done'. Don't worry about it.



In ten+ years time the money won't be part of the memory. What will be in your memory ? Looks like people + places. Make your decision based on that.

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Thanks for your reply,

I admit it it's one of those "chufti badges" for the adventure traveller to say you have ridden the Pamir Highway. personally I like to have goals when I'm traveling as they help with motivation to keep going.

As far as money goes every penny saved somewhere can be spent somewhere else, keeping the cost down will help our trip travel further.
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We never got to do the pamir last year, it was closed due to fighting. but we did get to ride the other road across Tajikistan and it was very beautiful.

try to get as many visas as you can before you leave. we had to get 2 in istanbul. Tajikistan was easy (dont catch that guy in a bad mood) but Uzbekistan took a week and was pricey. this can delay you a lot especially if time is a concern. Not sure about Kazakhstan, we got it in advance.
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I've been doing some sums, basically we have have 10 weeks to go from Volograd to Valdivostok, the must important thing to us is to ride through Mongolia as that is somewhere we both really want to ride.

I hope these calculations help someone else also if any experinced travelers think my calcualtions are well off please let me know



I haven't included the cost of living in the calculations as we will be traveling for the same amount of time which ever route we take so the costs of bed and board will be similar taking both routes, i have only included costs and mileage that I believe will differ depending on which route we take.

I imagine that 157 miles per day will be relitively easy to cover in parts of Russia and maybe Kazahstan and places where there are poor quality tarmac roads, how ever I Imagine that in Mongolia we will be looking closer to 100 miles per day and worse if the weather is bad.

I don't think we'll make our final decisions until Ankara in Turkey (where we'll have to get visas) after we know what sort of mileage we are making on the dirt roads in Albania.
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