UK To MONGOLIA - HOW LONG??
 

Hi Guys
just hunting about the forum. struggling to find any advice .... can anyone help.

Planning a trip - start in June 2015 by motorbike .... UK to Mongolia via Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and in to Mongolia.
Heading back via Kazakhstan down trough to Turkmenistan and across to Turkey.

has anyone here done this trip???

We have 3 -4 months to do this (with 3 weeks in Mongolia). The question is, in others experience how long should we expect to take to get to Kazakhstan and then across to Russia. This will effect when we choose to start visas from and how we plan things...

Any advice welcome.

Thanks Oli

I'm planning a trip East May 15, got 8 wks. I think your ok time wise, In search of greener crass could be worth a read.

8 weeks certainly sounds reasonable. I know one of the charity 'rallies' allows about 10 weeks and that's with small cars and 125s.

Last year on July 20 I started my trip from Cacak ,Serbia to Tokyo on Suzuki DR650 ...went throe Bulgaria,Turkey...to Georgia it took about 7 days then Azerbaijan,Baky 3 days transit with ferry over Caspian sea to Actay Kazahstan....rode throe desert for 7 days to Astana with stops here and dere....then down South to Almaty in 4 days....continued to Kirghistan and on and on....come back to Kazahstan up North to Altai mountain in Russia then to Mongolia...as I was alone i took Southern rout, it is easier but lots of dust and arrived to Ulan Batar on August 29.
Then continued to Vladivostok then S.Korea and finely arrived in Tokyo after 24.000km and 3 mts. in a seat.
Hope this helps Zoki

Last year we did UK/Europe/Turkey, via Georgia, Kazak, Uszbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Siberia Altai, Mongolia, Siberia, trans-siberian to Moscow and ride back to London... using 2 small 10 year old honda XRs 125 ... in 3 1/2 months, taking our time....
SO 8 weeks is doable...