Epic Long Drives
Multi-thousand-kilometre drives across continents — Trans-Siberian, Pan-American, Wild Atlantic Way, and other once-in-a-lifetime routes. 22 curated drives with mapped stops, distance, duration, and route notes — including Route 66, Alaska Highway, Great River Road: Ten-State Highlights.
These 22 routes range from 2000 to 7820 km and from 7 to 30 days, across 12 countries. Top picks: Route 66, Alaska Highway, Great River Road: Ten-State Highlights.
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LegendaryRoute 66The Mother Road. From Chicago to Santa Monica, Route 66 is America's original road trip, neon diners, desert motels, and wide-open sky that defined a nation on wheels.EV-friendly
IconicAlaska HighwayThe ALCAN, built in eight months in 1942 to connect Alaska to the Lower 48, is the last great North American frontier road. 2400km of boreal wilderness, glacial rivers, the Yukon's vast silence, and more wildlife per kilometre than almost anywhere on Earth.
NotableGreat River Road: Ten-State HighlightsA fourteen-day highlights journey along the roughly 3,000-mile Great River Road system, touching all ten Mississippi River states from Lake Itasca to New Orleans. It prioritizes major river landscapes and cultural cities rather than pretending every signed alternate can fit one linear drive.EV-friendly
LegendaryRuta 40: Full Seasonal ExpeditionArgentina's longest highway traces 5,000 km of the jagged Andes from the shores of the South Atlantic at Punta Loyola through Los Glaciares, Bariloche, Mendoza, Salta, and the Bolivian border at La Quiaca, traversing 20 national parks, crossing 18 major rivers, and climbing over 27 mountain passes. One of the most epic drives on the planet.4WD onlyOff-road sectionsPermit required
LegendaryG318 Sichuan-Tibet HighwayChina's most legendary road climbs from Chengdu's basin through 14 mountain passes above 4,000 m, across four mighty rivers, and into the thin air of Lhasa, the world's highest capital. Called "the most beautiful road on Earth" by Chinese drivers.Permit required
LegendaryMongolia: Classic Gobi CircuitThe complete clockwise Gobi circuit from Ulaanbaatar through Baga Gazriin Chuluu, Tsagaan Suvarga, Yolyn Am, Khongoryn Els, Bayanzag, and Ongi, returning through Kharkhorin to the capital. Twelve days give the desert's headline landscapes enough time, keep camel riding at the dunes, and explicitly account for the long overland return and vehicle hand-back.4WD onlyOff-road sectionsLoop / circuit
NotableCannonball-Inspired Cross-Country Road TripA legal sightseeing route inspired by the historic New York-to-Redondo Beach idea, with disclosed detours for cities, Route 66 landmarks, Petrified Forest, Grand Canyon, and the Mojave. It is not a speed record attempt.
IconicCaspian Coast to Persian Gulf TransectA repaired nine-day north-to-south transect from Anzali and Rasht through Qazvin, Tehran, Kashan and Isfahan to Persepolis, Shiraz, a Lar transit night and Bandar Abbas. The impossible Shiraz-to-Gulf sightseeing day is split and Persepolis/Naqsh-e Rostam restored.Permit required
NotableChe Guevara Biographical Route to ChileIn January 1952, Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Alberto Granado left Buenos Aires on a 1947 Norton 500 named La Ponderosa II, riding the lower part of Argentina to San Carlos de Bariloche before struggling through Chile to Santiago. Though the motorcycle was eventually abandoned, retracing the route from Che's birthplace in Rosario reveals the grazing country, Andean crossings, and political awakening that made the man.Permit required
IconicChita to Vladivostok via the Amur and Ussuri HighwaysA measured eastbound crossing of the Russian Far East on the modern R-297 and A-370 highway corridor. The plan splits the sparse Chita–Skovorodino section into defensible daylight stages, treats remote towns as practical overnights, and reserves real sightseeing time for Chita, Birobidzhan, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok.
IconicDakar-inspired Saudi Desert ExpeditionA Dakar-inspired public-road and licensed-guided expedition from Jeddah through Ha’il and Jubbah to AlUla, a guided Harrat lava-field sector, Buraydah and Riyadh. It captures Saudi rally landscapes without claiming to reproduce the race.4WD onlyOff-road sectionsPermit required
IconicExplorer's Way: Adelaide to DarwinAustralia's great north-south crossing on the Stuart Highway, from Adelaide across the Flinders Ranges to the opal-mining moonscape of Coober Pedy, past the dingo fence into the Red Centre, around Uluru and Kata Tjuta to Alice Springs, north through the Devils Marbles to Katherine Gorge and Darwin. The full traversal of the continent from temperate south to tropical north.
LegendaryG219 Kashgar–Lhatse Managed ExpeditionA transparent 19-day managed journey: a clearly separated three-day Pamir acclimatization loop returns to Kashgar, then the classic G219 sequence runs through Yecheng, operator-set high-road stages, Bangong Tso, Shiquanhe, Zanda's earth forest and Guge–Tholing heritage, Mount Kailash viewpoints, Lake Manasarovar, Saga, Lhatse, and a final Sakya Monastery extension. It removes the hidden Karakul detour, filler airport stops, generic remote restaurants, and any implied Kailash kora.4WD onlyPermit required
LegendaryLake Baikal West and East Shore JourneyA source-honest Baikal itinerary linking the best accessible west and east shore experiences without drawing a road across missing shoreline links. It gives Listvyanka one museum visit, Olkhon two operator-supported days, Ulan-Ude meaningful cultural time and Zabaikalsky National Park two protected days before returning to Ulan-Ude.SUV onlyOff-road sectionsPermit required
LegendaryMagadan to Yakutsk via Current R-504The canonical direct Road of Bones on today’s R-504, sequenced from Magadan through Palatka, Susuman, Kadykchan, Ust-Nera, Kyubeme, Khandyga, Churapcha and Nizhny Bestyakh before the seasonal Lena crossing to Yakutsk. Ten days preserve two buffers and keep Yakutsk sightseeing separate from the final transport day.4WD onlyOff-road sections
NotableMozambique EN1 Coastal RouteMozambique’s EN1 is the country’s spine, linking the southern capital to the far north through palm-fringed coast, busy market towns, and long Indian Ocean stretches. This overland drive mixes beach access, a passenger ferry at Inhambane, and everyday Mozambican life, with highlights around Inhambane, Beira, and Nampula before reaching the far north.SUV onlyOff-road sections
LegendaryRoad of Bones with Oymyakon DetourA conservative Magadan-to-Yakutsk expedition that follows the present R-504, adds Oymyakon only as a there-and-back detour at Kyubeme, and reserves two days for weather, repairs and river crossings. The route foregrounds Kolyma history and the corridor’s few meaningful museums instead of padding remote travel days with generic activities.4WD onlyOff-road sections
IconicSavannah WayThe Savannah Way links tropical northern Australia from Cairns to Broome through some of the country’s most remote country. Expect long sealed stretches mixed with isolated highways, red-dirt detours, stock country, gulf wetlands, gorge country, and classic outback towns along one of Australia’s great cross-continent drives.4WD onlyOff-road sections
IconicStuart HighwayAustralia’s legendary north-south spine, the Stuart Highway runs from Adelaide’s fringe to Darwin through red desert, relentless highway horizons, and iconic outback stops. It links Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, and Katherine, delivering a practical road trip through the country’s most expansive inland landscapes.
LegendarySulawesi Highlands: Tana Toraja to BunakenA 16-day expedition with two real Toraja days, light transit towns, the Pagimana–Gorontalo vehicle ferry, a dedicated guided Tangkoko overnight and two Bunaken/Manado days.SUV onlyPermit required
IconicTrans-Canada HighwayCanada’s classic coast-to-coast drive follows the Trans-Canada Highway from St. John’s, Newfoundland, across rugged Atlantic coastlines, Quebec’s river valleys, the vast Canadian Shield, the prairie heartland, and the dramatic mountains of British Columbia before ending at Victoria. It’s a true national road trip with huge scenery shifts and long, open stretches.EV-friendly
IconicTürkiye Grand TourA realistic seventeen-day Istanbul-to-Antalya grand tour with protected transfer days and overnights in Ankara, Cappadocia, Konya, Pamukkale, Selçuk and Bodrum.