Dont have anything to add yet but would lvoe to see the artilce when you're done though.

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Didn't the LWR boys go Astrakhan to Atyrau and on down to Shymkent? Don't know the exact route.

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It´ll be in finnish language I´m afraid! ...But I can put the map(s) into my site, once they´re ready, and post a link, so then we can all laugh at my ignorance on the whole subject

And thanks Shu, that´s already very helpful!

ok, here comes something (but I´ve never posted pics here before, so hoping this will work out... and these are just screenshots of a version, that is not the final one yet!)

Routes inside China are marked as red, and I´ll need to include a few words about the requirements & costs. In fact I havent heard of a single biker, who had done the entire China from Kazakhstan to Laos, but right now there´s a bus going from Finland to Bangkok and they´re doing that route, will be interesting to see!

Should probably include the ferry to Egypt, as well as land route from Libya to Egypt, when I´ve got the time. Someone said that north side of the Black Sea to Sochi might also be one to mention.

I actually do not know exactly, how you can go overland through the Caucasus, so I´ll need to do some more research on that. But the Sochi-Trabzon ferry should be a usable ´plan B´ for that.

Note that I´ve started with a Mercator projection map, but here I´ve made the latitudes so that they are always evenly spaced (gives you a better idea of real distances north-south, when you´re a long way from the Equator). Longitudes have been left untouched.

Also thinking my scale might be a bit off, that 1000kms actually looks a bit long. Well, I´ve still got about 2 weeks to finalise this before it´ll be printed.

I´d like to include some kind of ´elevation map´ into that solid green, but that´s going to need a lot of work, don´t know if I can do it. Plus if I´m not careful, it might just make it harder to read. Think I´ll also play a bit more with the texts, to make them more clear.

Routes in Southeast Asia are not included here.

And especially the freighting routes are just plain examples.

Oh, and "Matkateema" means "travel theme".... and "Pietari" is Finnish for St.Petersburg! And here Warsaw is just cut out of the left border.
Any comments and/or fixes will be welcome!

(oh, if possible, could this thread´s title be changed to ´Asia overland route maps´, as these now include a bit wider region than the Caspian Sea..?)

I am not sure 100%, but I hear its close border from Tashkent to Bishkek. I will go this way on the summer (Astrahan- Aterau - Beyneu - Samarkand - Pamir Highway........). I hope its mistake news!?

What a fantastic set of maps to help us who are planning to see the options. Thanks for taking the time to do this

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Looks about right. One key variation I would add is the route from Baku To Beyneu, via ferry and Aktau (shevchenko on old maps). This is increasingly popular and important as Turkmenstan visas get harder to obtain and as the Turkmenbashi ferry gets more and more expensive and less and less reliable

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Also there are no flights from magadan to alaska. The only way people are gettiing out of magadan these days is by taking a ship to Vladivostok.

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