Yes you read it absolutely right, a road-trip from London (UK) to Jammu (India). And i know ours is just a bike forum but i have been so long attached with xBhp, i felt there would be something missing if i did not share this here on xBhp as well

No, we are not the first ones to do and we (me and my wife) actually got inspired by one another Indian couple who did it via Russia, and another Indian who did it all alone via Pakistan .

We started planning about it mid 2013. To give a little background, i am a Software Professional who loves to drive/ride and my wife is a Travel Consultant who loves to travel. So she popped me this question one fine day if we can do a cross country, i loved the idea but had to run it through our mother. Once she agreed, there was no looking back.

We are planning to get all formalities done by end of August 2014 and flag off.

Internet helped us in gathering as much information as possible to conceive this trip and this is an effort to help some other souls who might also want to traverse the same adventure.

We have created a Facebook Page where we will be publishing all the updates and information on all preparation that needs to be done in addition to the website that we have created.

The countries we will be passing through are:

UK
Belgium
Germany
Switzerland
Italy
Austria
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Hungary
Croatia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Montenegro
Albania
Serbia
Macedonia
Greece
Turkey
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
China
Nepal
India

Current plan looks like as below:









I am on Indian Passport and my wife is on British Passport, so she has to apply less Visa's than mine (benefits of British Passport, but i dont care i want my Indian Passport. Jai Hind).


* For additional information you will have to refer the website. We have tried to provide some information on how to apply for Visa and important places that are not supposed to be missed once in that country.

We would be more than happy to answer any question that any of the members might have that may assist them in any such similar planning.

Till now we have done the following:

Purchased the vehicle of choice (i have a gut feeling that i am going to get a lot of negative feedback on this ).
Planned out the route.
We are going to collect funds for charity and have finalized the cause we will be supporting.

Things that are pending are:

- Getting all pending visas.
- Getting Carnet for the vehicle.
- Ready the vehicle for the road-trip. In addition to bringing up the car to a cross-country condition, there are few upgrades planned and we are looking for sponsors as well. Wishlist includes:

1. Roof Rack
2. Front Bumper Mounted Winch
3. Jerry Cans
4. Oxygen Cylinders
5. Two Additional Spare Rims + Tyres

Proposed look and feel would be something like as below minus the colour:


Will update the thread as and when we take the next step