From Berlin to Cape Town, that’s the plan. A damn good one if you ask us (but we might be slightly biased).
Mount Fuji, Japan - Tokyo, Japan.
Woohoo!
Sakaiminato, Japan - Mount Fuji, Japan. Japan is unique - and a great country to explore on a motorcycle. If you escape the traffic.
Six months, Germany to Japan, with two brand new motorcycles: KTM 1290 Super Adventure R and KTM 1090 Adventure R. On a trip like this, your bike becomes your partner. Scenes from a happy marriage.
Vladivostok, Russia - Donghae, South Korea - Sakaiminato, Japan. On our last days in Russia, we get in trouble with the law - but manage to catch a ferry.
Magadan, Russia - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia - Vladivostok, Russia. Since we started this trip in April, we got used to riding our bikes almost everyday. But there's no road leading out of Magadan except the one we came on. So we slightly changed our traveling mode.
Yakutsk, Russia - Magadan, Russia. Between the world's coldest city and Magadan lie 2000 kilometers of dirt road: We head east on the famous Kolyma Highway, also known as Road of Bones.
Irkutsk, Russia - Yakutsk, Russia. Less cities, more nature: the landscape gets lonelier. Still we're far from being isolated on these dusty gravel roads. The Siberian people are very friendly to us. Especially the bikers.
Altanbulag, Mongolia - Irkutsk, Russia. On our return to Siberia it is hot and sunny. Lake Baikal is huge and enormously beautiful. And cold enough to remind us, where we are.
Khyargas Lake, Mongolia - Altanbulag, Mongolia. We continue to cross Mongolia on the middle route. The gravel is great and the sand, well, it's part of the adventure. Mongolia surely is one of the highlights of our trip so far.
Kosch-Agatsch, Russia - Khyargas Lake, Mongolia. No streets, no fences - in Mongolia you can go wherever you want. It's the perfect place for motorcycling. But nobody said it was easy.
Semey, Kazakhstan - Kosch-Agatsch, Russia. Berlin is only 626 kilometers away from Kaliningrad but we chose the long way to Russia: After 20.000 kilometers we're finally there. Siberia is green, vast and beautiful.
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan - Semey, Kazhakstan. Kazhakstan is a country of straight roads and big distances.
Osh, Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Between Kyrgyzstan's two biggest cities lie lush green mountains and dusty gravel roads.
Chorogh, Tajikistan - Osh, Kyrgyzstan. On the final kilometers of the Pamir Highway we see things we've seen before. In a different light.
South of Murgab, Tajikistan - Chorogh, Tajikistan. Taking the southern route of the Pamir Highway we improve our off-road skills and see a country that's not really on our route.
Osh, Kyrgyzstan - South of Murgab, Tajikistan. The first part of the Pamir Highway takes us to its highest pass - and into landscapes unlike everything we've seen.
Andijan, Uzbekistan - Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Osh is the last stop before we take on the biggest adventure of our journey. It's time to get prepared.
Farab, Turkmenistan - Andijan, Uzbekistan. The friendliness is back. Uzbek people greet us with a smile. No wonder. They live in a beautiful country.
Bajgiran, Iran - Farab, Turkmenistan. Following up on Iran is a tough job for any country. But Turkmenistan isn't even trying.