Caravanistan

It all depends on the weather, not politics. I was at the border 20 october last year, and hardly made it upstairs driving a Lexus 4X4. If the global warming gets worse every year, probably no snow anymore during winter there. The chinese will do their best to keep the only landborder with PAK open ...

Small correction, night nr 4 wasnt in Zhob, we stayed at Circuit house Killa Saifullah well before Zhob. If you go to google maps you can click on it and see our vehilces parked overthere in the morning !! It looks nice on the fotos but it wasnt in the room we were offered. Everybody slept in their ...

In fact i left BAM day 1 early morning, and crossed the border in the afternoon. Day 2 is Taftan to Dalbandin. Dalbandin is probably the worst shit-hole I ever saw in my live ? The levies decide there you go the same day to Quetta or not, because they dont want you to sleep between Dalbandin and Que...

I tried to do everything online but failed several times, maybe I am just to old or stupid for those haggles. After al i did it with IVISA, costed about 100 dollars, and i arranged a LOI with Losthorizontours in Gilgit, also 100 dollars. After you get your visa confirmation in your mail, print it ou...

I slept 3 nights in my car which i had prepared for it. In fact on my whole trip to Phnom Penh these 3 nights were the only-ones. You can sleep on a dirty floor in a plice station if you want to. In Quetta you are brought to the Bloostar hotel which is not so bad as used to be before Covid. Its basi...

They need in Islamabad a lot of paparwork for your Indian visa. Also bankstatements that you have enough to survive your stay in India and also best to write a letter to explain why you didnt apply in your homecountry. I just explain them i am overlander and didnt want to arrange everything before l...

By car you can only cross in Taftan, after october when i crossed some bikers and hichhikers get trough the Gabd border. The tird one no idea. Taftan to Quetta is in my eyes not dangerous at all, but you get escorted, noway to come around that, never felt unsafe at all, it just takes time !!

I crossed in october, and maybe you need an NOC from the border to Quetta, but the Levies arrange for you without you know. But in Quetta, you have to go to some special office to get the NOC to travel ahead. And it takes time and a lot of stamps, handshakes and tea nipping. But the Levies take you ...

The CDP costs 250 euro in belgium. The deposit is the worth of the car (more or less) !! I had a 9-year old lexus RX 450 and told RACB in Belgium its worth about 10k, whats cheap, but they agreed about it !!

I shipped my car from Cambodia to Belgium in january: it was in a 20 foot container, which the cambodian customs sealed ofcourse, and they stamped my carnet. Its new for Cambodian customs and they hardly know how to do, i had to explain them a little also. But belgian carnets should also be stamped ...