The Mighty Yaks' Mongol Rally Route

0: Helsinki

1: Stockholm

2: Copenhagen

3: Berlin

4: Prague

5: Klenová

6: Bratislava

A short stop in Bratislava 

7: Budapest

8: Brasov

Dracula's Castle!

9: Sophia

Brief stop in Bulgaria on our way to Istanbul

10: Istanbul

We'll spend a few nights here hanging around one of the most beautiful cities in the world

11: Ankara

An overnight stay in the capital before venturing further east

12: Goreme

Our base for exploring Capadocia

13: Kayseri

waypoint between capadocia and Mt. Nemrut

14: Mt. Nemrut

Nemrut Da??, one of Eastern Turkey's biggest tourist attractions.

15: Diyarbakir

16: Van

We'll stop by Lake Van on our way to Iran.

17: Turkey/Iran Border

Our first potentially difficult border crossing

18: Tabriz

19: Qazvin

20: Alamout

21: Sari

22: Shirvan

23: Placemark 24

24: Ashgabat

25: The Gates of Hell

26: Mary

27: Turkmenabat

28: Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan border

29: Bukhara

30: Muynak

31: Samarkand

32: Tashkent

33: Uzbek - Kyrgyz border

34: Bishkek

35: Arslanbob

36: Kyrgyz - Kazakh border

37: Almaty

38: Sarkand

39: Ayagoz

40: Semey

41: Kazakh - Russian border

42: Barnaul

43: Russian - Mongolian border

44: Ulaanbaatar

45: Random arbitrary marker in the Gobi Desert

We'll stop quite a few times between the border and Ulaanbaatar, but as we have no clue where we'll stop or when, this seemed as good a place as any to put a marker.