November 2006 / July 2008
The routing pass through East-Europe, Asia and Middle East. We will visit 33 States as follows:
Europe: Austria, Czech Rep., Slovakia, Ukraine.
Asia: Russia, Kazakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tagikistan, Kirghikistan, Russia (Siberia),
Mongolia, China, (Hong Kong), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, India,
Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Georgia, Armenia.
Medio Oriente: Turkey
Europe (returning to Italy): Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia.
The total distance in kilometres is about 60000 km.
In the first part of our travel, we’ll use a off-road vehicle to reach Mongolia. Once arrived in China, because of difficulties of entering vehicles with numberplate, we’ll buy 2 bikes and we’ll go on.
Time necessary for the complete travel is about 24 months.
The slowness ,which is proper of an overland travel, allows us to reach each place with a sense of physical and moral conquest and also to absorb completely the real atmosphere of the country we’re passing through.
We intended our travel as an “on the road” trip, far from places “absolutely to be seen” , but rather looking forward small villages, towns, crossing frontiers bringing a pack with the necessary (tent, stove, sleeping bag, etc.). No tourist guide or independent trip can’t describe in advance the situations we’ll run into: for instance , knowing different religious and social realities or even facing complicated countries circumstances..