Caravanistan

Renault has proved to be a good choice for us too, old renault R4 made it through 22000km in central asia!
I'll add We met chris & Ann in Azerbaijan, and loved their Renault van. she's really cosy and seems very comfy!

Hi Dean, I was on the road back home so no meeting on the road unfortunately. I like also your idea to impulse school kids towards exploration, outer and inner!
I'll PM you

Hi, I know this guy has done it 3 or 4 years ago : https://thescenicroutethroughlife.com/
Scroll through the blog posts and you might find infos on his travel with an Enfield from India to Spain.

Hi, I create this Topic after having successfully applied for and obtained a transit visa through Russia, in Uralsk / Oral . The Uralsk consulate webpage is : https://uralsk.mid.ru/ It's in Russian, but don't worry, scroll down to find a section written VISA in english. Click on it to have the instr...

About my last post, I managed to fill the online form using Chrome on another computer, and still not working with IEor Firefox, despite the russian website advising to use those latter ones. For those interested, I could apply for my russian transit visa in Uralsk instead of Almaty. I'll create a t...

[EDITed] I erased this post because it was adding confusion and a post form Alfred later added some more accurate information.

Hi, we have been travelling in family for 5 months on the silk road. Actually we were slower than planned so we actually arrived from Europe in the stan's in September, and for practical reasons only went until Tashkent. We were travelling Dad 37 French Passport, Mum 34 Chilean Passport and little A...

When i checked in september, last dates were from april! It seems they started to update again. Better use it in parallel to calling directly the port.
As far as i understood, only profesor gul and merkury 1 take passengers.

I crossed from UZ to KZ. Waited 1h at the door, passed through a thorough check of all vehicle including roof tent (1st time in 13 borders!) where the agent left a mess and took out my child's bear to make childish if not mocking gestures... Totally rude. Waited 30min in no man's land with friendly ...

Hi, Use the iOverlander App for petrol stations, there are now stations in all major towns showed on the app. No more black market needed I think. We found always Ai95 which is Benzine 95. Check the app but I think there is also always a Diesel station in every major town. Only in Urgench we filled ...