View our route on Google Earth!

(checkpoints have total mileage)
First Leg
UK
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Germany
Czech Rep. — 800 miles

Super Northern Route
Germany
Denmark
Sweden
Finland
Russia (St. Petersburg) — 3,000 miles

At this point it gets a bit tricky. Google Maps won’t show any driving directions through the -stans.

Uzbek Backcountry

Russia (Moscow)
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan — 5,500 miles

To the Border
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Russia
Mongolia (Tsagaannuur) — 8,000 miles

To the Finish Line
Mongolia (Ulaan Baator) — 10,000 miles

Official routes

Here’s a more detailed list of cites and towns we’ll be traveling through. Each —– is a border crossing :

New York, US
—–
London, UK
—– Chunnel to —–
Calais, FR
—–
Brussels, BE
—–
Netherlands (briefly)
—–
Köln, DE
Frankfurt
Nürnberg
—–
Plzen, CZ
Prague
—–
Dresden, DE
Leipzig
Hannover
Hamburg
—–
Kolding, DK
Odense
Copenhagen
—–
Malmö, SE
Karlskrona
Oskarshamn
Stockholm
—–
Rovaniemi, FI
Kuopio
—–
St. Petersburg, RU
Moscow
Tambov
Volgograd
Astrakhan
—–
Atyrau, KZ
Beyneu
—–
Nukus, Uz
Bukhara
Samarqand
Dzhizak
Tashkent
Angren
Kokand
Andizhan
—–
Osh, KG
Bishkek
—–
Almaty, KZ
Semipalatinsk
—–
Barnaul, RU
—–
Tsagaannuur, MN
Ulaanbaatar, MN
—– by train to —–
Beijing, CN