Route

India (Vipassana, Tamil Nadu) → 2 weeks

Malaysia – Thailand – Laos → 2 weeks

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China

Mongolia – Kazakhstan → 2 weeks

Kirghistan – Uzbekistan – Kazakhstan → 2 weeks

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Azerbaijan – Georgia – Turkey → 2 weeks

Europe → 2 weeks

Let's have a look !

Our way will start in Tiruchirappalli, a city south of Auroville in Tamil Nadu. We are going to catch a flight there to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Traveling through Malaysia, we will end up in Thailand to meet one of our Auroville friends to chill a little bit on the beach together...! Afterwards we will continously head north to Laos where we hope to get our Chinese visa and then enter China. We will not spend a lot of time in China and will go pretty straight to Beijing to catch the Transmongolia train from there – a dream becomes true for us!

We will arrive in Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia and will work our way to the west where Mongolia shares a tiny border with Kazakhstan. And we will try to make another dream to come true. Julie's dream of riding a horse in the steppe of Mongolia! A friend of her may even join us for the occasion! In Kazakhstan we will travel south-east down to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to visit Hannah's friend. And we will probably leave Kyrgyzstan through Andijan, Uzbekistan. To reach the port Aktau in Kazakhstan, we need to cross Uzbekistan from the east to the west and then a small part of Kazakhstan again.

We will arrive in Baku, Azerbaijan, by ship. Then we will pass through Tbilisi, Georgia (we hope to meet there a friend of Hannah as well as a friend of Julie) to take the border close to Batumi to Turkey. Depending on the political situation in Turkey, we will cross from the eastest (Hopa) to the westest (Edrine) and passing through Ankara, Istanbul, maybe Bursa where Hannah studied and exit Turkey to go to Bulgaria or Greece... further than this we didn't plan yet!