Overland route from the Caucasus to Mongolia without entering Russia?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 27 Jul, 2023
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11/14/2011 5:46:47 PM
- From Tbilisi to Baku you can go via train #38/37. It goes every day, so there is no problem with that.
- From Baku you can get to Aktau (Kazakhstan) via ferry. People who used this ferry are saying it has no stable schedule, so you can contact ferry station by phone:
(99412) 493-19-63
(99412) 498-10-13
- Also you can go to Türkmenbaşy (Turkmenistan), if you want – it much closer, but I can’t find info about transit visa for Turkmenistan.
- From Aktau you can get to Almaty by train #377.
- From there you can pass to one of the main border crossing points Dostyk by train #114 (and even to Ürümqi, China by train #014, since in Almaty there is a Chinese embassy).
- Ürümqi is a large rail point in North China, but the only two points to cross the China-Mongolia border is Zamyn-Üüd and Erenhot, so you need get a train to one of these points.
Credit:stackoverflow.com‘