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Amended plan....lol
OK... winging it ain't gonna work.  The amended plan is this...
1: Commencing 21st Jan: MiniMeet in Chiang Mai.... 
2: hightail it to Cambodia to buy a bike from Lucky Lucky  and see Cambodia
3: 'ave a shot at the Viet border (likely no) fly up into Laos,
4: back to Cambodia, lock up the bike and go into Vietnam where I'll buy a $500 175 to do South Vietnam, sell the Viet bike half price,
5: Pick up the bike Cambodia, over to Thailand where I'll get my visas and shiite under way for India while I spin around Northern thailand,
6 -10+: ... and ferry to India, Sri Lanka, Bang, Mongolia and Bhutan if they'll let me in. That should cover a cruisy six months with a fair spattering of enduro trail riding....
After that who knows  .
(shiite all this planning is making the Americas look like a breeze, I just rocked up into Mexico and landed at border after border til I hit the southern ocean...)
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Originally Posted by Cpt Barbarossa
OK... winging it ain't gonna work.  The amended plan is this...
1: Commencing 21st Jan: MiniMeet in Chiang Mai.... 
2: hightail it to Cambodia to buy a bike from Lucky Lucky  and see Cambodia
3: 'ave a shot at the Viet border (likely no) fly up into Laos,
4: back to Cambodia, lock up the bike and go into Vietnam where I'll buy a $500 175 to do South Vietnam, sell the Viet bike half price,
5: Pick up the bike Cambodia, over to Thailand where I'll get my visas and shiite under way for India while I spin around Northern thailand,
6 -10+: ... and ferry to India, Sri Lanka, Bang, Mongolia and Bhutan if they'll let me in. That should cover a cruisy six months with a fair spattering of enduro trail riding....
After that who knows  .
(shiite all this planning is making the Americas look like a breeze, I just rocked up into Mexico and landed at border after border til I hit the southern ocean...) 
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Love your style
What sort of budget are you looking at overall if I may ask ?
I used a 'laid back' attitude with no firm plans for a Senegal/Gambia trip and was warned " Fail to plan, Plan to fail" what a load of  , turned out I had a great time, I wonder how many are put off trips because of all the planning and paperwork required or advised?
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Reckon about $10,000'll do it ('stralian dollars that is)...
Heya mate,
I agree so much with that!!!!
Confucious: "The journey is half over the moment you have taken the first step."
I just did 14 months Mexico-Chile down the Andes and Inca Trail. 26,000 ks, about 60% trail/enduro. I never went without a  (or local equivalent...lol) or a good feed but slummed about a third of it and lived in luxury (pool, motel and Western food) baout every six weeks to re-energise.
That cost me $15,000 AUD (but included a few mad party months and a few great kayak tours that blew the budget) with bike and flights included. Asia should be cheaper by half, but I'm buying a better bike this time round so I expect that'll cost me about grand extra by the time I offload it (allowing two bikes bought/sold at a loss ... in case of transport issues).
Thinking about joining me? I really don't plan much, makes it a bit harder but shit you see some unexpected stuff when you ahve the ability to wing it, huh?
Cheers mate
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