Day Destination Mileage
 Aug 4  Depart the UK, sleep overnight in the vicinity of the Nurburgring.  406
 Aug 5  Lap the 'Ring, then get your toe down as you need to be at Poznan, Poland, by nightfall. 572
 Aug 6  Poznan to Minsk.  Your first experience of visas, car paperwork and Eastern European border controls.  543
 Aug 7  Minsk to Moscow.  More experience... but only 440 miles    440
 Aug 8   Rest day  
 Aug 9  Moscow to Penza.  Try to find Cold War relics if you get over the road signs being in a different alphabet   376
 Aug 10  Past Samara (small celebration if your car is so named) and into Kazakhstan   416
 Aug 11  Depart Oral and head to Aktobe.  If you think the road's bad, prepare for a shock  296
 Aug 12  Rest day.  Prepare your car for...  
 Aug 13

 The Aktobe-Aralsk Road.  Generally reckoned to be impassable by 2wd if it's wet (in which case you're detouring via Astana) 

 190
 Aug 14  More Aktobe-Aralsk Road.  190
 Aug 15  Rest day.  Visit ship graveyard, maybe a beach barbecue...  
 Aug 16  Aralsk to Turkestan.  Visit Baikonur Cosmodrome, it is nice!   460
 Aug 17  Turkestan to Bishkek 379
 Aug 18   Donate car and any equipment you're not taking home to charity (it's allowed to shed a tear as you sign your car over), fly home...   
 Aug 19  Or stick around for a couple of days enjoying the hospitality of the locals and discussing the best way to pick up a headless sheep on horseback.  

 
Please note: the schedule above is a rough estimate. The actual distance you travel and time it will take will depend greatly o­n your choices, mishaps and mechanical failures along the way.  We recommend either booking a flexible flight back, or searching for o­ne o­nly o­n your arrival in Bishkek.

 

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