Around the world: the ultimate adventure ride

[nigele]

All, I am just testing the water for peoples thoughts, views, ambitions and potential buddies to consider the ultimate adventure ride from NZ to the UK

The general thought is to start from Bluff and end the trip in either London or far north of Scotland. The less plane, train and ferry the better, so the aim is to ride as much as possible so the only part on a plane would be from NZ to AUS and then AUS (Darwin) to Singapore??...from there it should be a land grab all the way and maybe as much off the beaten track as time permits.

So anyone done it, thought about it, ready to leave the husband/wife and/or partner to consider this once in a lifetime trip?

And yes I do understand how long this will take but that's the point !

Looking forward to herring from you all! :-)

[young1]

Darwin and then island hop across Indonesia?

Have you seen this site, an Aussie father and son who drove from Melbourne to London (the book is a good read);

www.melbournetolondon.com

Mike

[Monstaman]

...we already gonna be busy ... bloody cool trip tho, will watch with interest

[nigele]

Very jealous...sounds like you guys are going on a great trip!

I checked the link of the two driving and another gutsy trip and in a car...IMO sounds boring as 2 wheels would be much more fun :-)

[kevfromcoro]

Go for it..... its something that you will never forget.
I have pondered doing a similar trip.
Not UK though
Was going to ride to Darwin ( iam in QLD at the mo)
Across to Indo. up through Malaysia.. and in to Thailand
Are you taking your own bike from NZ..??
Have heard Singapore it one of the esyiast places to get a bike into Asaia
There are some good web sites on this sort of travell
From Thaialand,, i was heading for Cambodia. then viet-nam.
Go round in circles,, till i got sick of it
And then do a u turn
So much to do.. and little time..
Anyway,, keep us posted
Enjoy
KEVTHEKIWI

[LBD]

We have a couple of spare beds.....

Happy to act as a depot...

[yachtie10]

I could be interested
looking at riding up to thailand anyway

[nigele]

This is how great ideas become reality....

I have just returned from a trip to Cambodia andmkeen to get back over there on the bike...So the idea is to take my own bike the entire way however I could also be tempted to start with leg 1 which starts from Bluff up to Cape Reinga and then exit out of Auckland to Melborne and then north up past Alice Springs and out of Darwin to Singapore. From there towards Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand and then maybe West to Nepal have a look at Everest and then North East to Beijing and then re-evaluate the trip and if keen keep going...

Keen to discuss further with others who want to turn this into a dream lifetime ride and also interested for people to do part of the trip with us as I am sure others will join in and go where they can.

[ajturbo]

THIS would be a cool ride.. would love to be able to do it on the XB. ..just because

when you guys do, do it.. please make some sort of blog thingy so we can watch your progress and offer helpful () comments..

[kiwigazza]

Check out

www.advrider.com and www.horizonsunlimited.com

Difficult/Near impossible to ride through Vietnam/China/Myanmar so will need to Fly/Ship

I'll be riding Korea-Russia-Europe next anyone else planning similar?

[young1]

Unfortunately you can not cross Myanmar by vehicle. The northern borders (at least) are closed to foreigners.

[Red39]

This is how great ideas become reality....

I have just returned from a trip to Cambodia andmkeen to get back over there on the bike...So the idea is to take my own bike the entire way however I could also be tempted to start with leg 1 which starts from Bluff up to Cape Reinga and then exit out of Auckland to Melborne and then north up past Alice Springs and out of Darwin to Singapore. From there towards Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand and then maybe West to Nepal have a look at Everest and then North East to Beijing and then re-evaluate the trip and if keen keep going...

Keen to discuss further with others who want to turn this into a dream lifetime ride and also interested for people to do part of the trip with us as I am sure others will join in and go where they can.

I am madly jealous Sounds like a fantastic trip especially Nepal, Everest........wonder if my family would notice if I wasn't around for a year Probably not

[Eddieb]

How much do you budget for a trip like this?

[Red39]

How much do you budget for a trip like this?

Every little bean you have in the bank.....if that's not enough - sell any kids you have too

[Monstaman]

Every little bean you have in the bank.....if that's not enough - sell any kids you have too

Interesting point that, we have our TMK budget based on others trips and separately we have a "We have to get to the start line" budget and a "We have to get home at the end budget" too, with NZ being a long way from everything this has become quite a large cost.

We have all the facts and figures for US, Central America and South America, although not directly the same it relates to this and gives some ideas.

The other HUGE thing to consider is your gear and the bike, we have bought two new bikes as we will be doing 70000 km plus over 18 months plus so preferred to start new as we had to get at least one new bike.

A lot of our gear is half worn now from being used in anger and we will be starting in the colder end of things so we have had opted to spend a bit more upgrading now rather than freezing our arses with inadequate/holey/thin gear.

nigele, let me know if you want some of the good info we have gathered from other on ADV and Horizons as I would be happy to present it to help get your dream off the ground, to all other KBers .... if you have the means or can make it happen ....just do it... it will never get any easier.

TMK Hobbit and Chiwi ... counting the days down