Thursday, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:32
Back in 97 I planned to do the same. I sourced an ex camel trophy Landrover but on the advise of the dealership selling the vehicle the suggested checking out insurance first. The cheapest quote I could get to cover just the drivers in the event of an accident with no cover for the vehicle or possessions was 6200 pounds.
I also took a long hard look at the guy that wanted to come with me and thought that I wouldn't be able to deal with him for that long so I used cost as an excuse and we head off to Australia taking public land transport. I parted ways in central Iran with this guy and the trip really took off from there.
Many times I wished I was driving because you can't get a bus to stop when you want but occasionally I saw something interesting and got the bus to stop and got off in the middle of nowhere and had to figure out my next move. BUt the upside was meeting a lot more people along the way. Great fun.
So much so that I did the journey in reverse in 2002/3.
You won't regret this. I hope the rules for travelling through China have changed. No idea what the story is now but a few years ago you needed to travel in an approved organised group to get over the border. And this cost $$$$, some people travelling independently were paying US$200 a day. We encountered lots of hassles because we travelled through Tibet, we started off with an organised group to take us over the border into China and the then informed the tour leader that we were not going to show up the next day. We took off on our own. All good fun and we lived to tell the tale.
The most interesting travel night I had was spent in a Libyan prison but that’s another story.
Gook luck and can you please post about insurance, I am itching to do a journey like that again.
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