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. |
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