Itinerary to Mongolia

Tonight I put together a small Excel table to outline the general idea of the route to Mongolia and to start estimating the budget I’ll need.

I split the route into main legs, from Bucharest to Ulaanbaatar (the capital of Mongolia), with approximate distances and the countries each leg would pass through.

📍 These are the planned legs:

🔎 So the outbound journey alone adds up to about 11,000 km, and after researching each section more carefully I wouldn’t be surprised if the distance reached around 13,000–15,000 km — especially since the last two legs in the table aren’t realistic without intermediate stops.

What comes next in the planning

Right now the route map on Google Maps already shows how each leg would connect, but I don’t yet know whether all the planned crossings are actually possible, in terms of borders, visas or the actual roads.

Over the next few days I plan to look at each section separately and check:

• which visas are needed for each country I cross,
• where the border crossingsare,
• where I can find petrol stations along the route and how much fuel costs,
• road conditions,
• options for cheap accommodation or campingspots,
• access to the internet,
• and which places are worth visiting along the way.