SEASON 01 · EXPEDITION MAPTHE EASTWARD
ROAD16 COUNTRIES · MADRID → ULAANBAATAR

PLANNED CORRIDORUNRESOLVED SECTION

SEASON 01 EXPEDITIONMadrid → Mongolia

± 15,000 KM PLANNEDPARTLY UNRESOLVED

CARTOGRAPHER'S LENS

200 KM

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Madrid to Mongolia motorcycle route map

Dust Pilgrim Season 01 follows an archaeological route from Madrid to Ulaanbaatar through sixteen countries. The route and border crossings remain provisional.

Madrid · Kilometre Zero — Puerta del Sol · Spain. The expedition begins at Kilometre Zero and follows the archaeological line east across Europe and Asia.
Pont du Gard — Occitanie · France. The Roman aqueduct crosses the Gardon as the route leaves Iberia and enters the old imperial road network.
Aquileia — Friuli-Venezia Giulia · Italy. A major Roman city at the head of the Adriatic, positioned where the expedition turns into the Balkans.
Emona · Ljubljana — Ljubljana · Slovenia. The Roman town beneath modern Ljubljana anchors the Slovenian crossing between the Alps and the Balkans.
Vučedol — Danube · Croatia. A major Copper Age site on the Danube near Vukovar, giving the Croatian stage an archaeological destination of its own.
Lepenski Vir — Danube Gorge · Serbia. A Danube settlement landscape whose stone buildings and sculpture make the river corridor much older than its empires.
Ancient Plovdiv — Thrace · Bulgaria. Plovdiv places the Bulgarian section within the older Thracian and Roman landscape before the road bends south.
Philippi — Eastern Macedonia · Greece. The route deliberately enters northern Greece through the archaeological landscape of Philippi before turning east to Türkiye.
Istanbul · Theodosian Walls — Marmara · Türkiye. The land walls mark the passage from the Balkans into Anatolia and the surviving edge of Constantinople.
Derinkuyu — Cappadocia · Türkiye. A deep underground settlement in Cappadocia, reached before the expedition turns southeast toward the Euphrates.
Nemrut Dağı — Adıyaman · Türkiye. The summit sanctuary of Antiochus I sits high above the eastern Taurus, close to the road toward Şanlıurfa.
Göbekli Tepe — Şanlıurfa · Türkiye. Monumental enclosures and carved T-shaped pillars built by hunter-gatherer communities more than eleven thousand years ago.
Uplistsikhe — Shida Kartli · Georgia. A rock-cut city near the east–west Georgian corridor before the expedition turns south into Armenia.
Geghard & Garni — Kotayk · Armenia. Garni and the rock-cut monastery of Geghard give Armenia a defined field chapter before the route continues toward Azerbaijan.
Gobustan — Caspian coast · Azerbaijan. Thousands of engravings connect prehistoric lifeways to the Caspian landscape before the conditional crossing to Aktau.
Ancient Merv — Mary · Turkmenistan. If the Caspian and Turkmenistan entry can be solved, Merv becomes the eastern landing point and principal archaeological stop.
Itchan Kala · Khiva — Khorezm · Uzbekistan. The walled inner city of Khiva is the first major oasis archive after the Caspian and the desert crossing.
Samarkand — Zeravshan Valley · Uzbekistan. A long-lived crossroads shaped by Sogdian trade and the Timurid world, directly on the transcontinental corridor.
Tamgaly — Chu-Ili Mountains · Kazakhstan. A rock-art landscape and ritual complex west of Almaty, linking settled oasis routes to the open steppe.
Mongolian Altai Petroglyphs — Bayan-Ölgii · Mongolia. Three remote rock-art complexes preserve a twelve-thousand-year visual record at the meeting point of Central and North Asia.
Khangai Deer Stones — Arkhangai & Khövsgöl · Mongolia. Carved stelae, khirgisüür burial mounds and ritual structures spread across the slopes of the Khangai.
Orkhon Valley · Kharkhorum — Övörkhangai · Mongolia. Turkic memorials, the Uyghur capital and Mongol Kharkhorum occupy one pastoral valley before the final run east.
Ulaanbaatar — Mongolia. The planned terminus after the archaeological arc through Anatolia, the Caspian, Central Asia and the Mongolian steppe.