PRIVATE GROUP JOURNEYS

Mongolia | China | Kyrgyzstan | Uzbekistan | Turkmenistan | Iran

Tajikistan | Kazakhstan | Georgia | Armenia | Azerbaijan | and many more Your Group. Your Journey. Tailored for You.

Sharing Asia Overland. Differently.

Sundowners Overland has been crafting pioneering adventures across Asia since 1964, providing unrivalled expertise and a comprehensive selection of unique journeys and today we are the leading Silk Road, Caucasus and Trans Mongolian specialists. Follow ancient trails of trade and conquest across Central Asia on the golden Silk Road. And receive a warm welcome among the mountains and monasteries of Europe’s spellbinding Caucasus. and discover the cultural contrasts of Russia, Mongolia and China as you glide along the renowned Trans Siberian Railway.

Private Groups offer an immersive experience into our destinations and are all created on the foundation of 60 years of knowledge and experience of Sundowners Overland.

1964 The ‘Asia Overland’ adventure begins from Australia to London in a couple of 'Combies'

1970s New adventures beyond the ‘Iron Curtain’ into Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia

1976 First Trans-Siberian Railway journey from Nakhodka in Russia’s Far East, Vladivostok remains closed

1984-85 Our first journeys into mainland China and Mongolia aboard the Trans Mongolian Railway

Late 80s Soviet Central Asia opens up and our travellers first experience the ‘stan Soviet Republics

1994 The Trans Kazakhstan Railway opens allowing travel from Beijing to Moscow via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

1998 The Torugart Pass opens road access through the Tien Shan mountains from China to Kyrgyzstan along the fabled Silk Road

Early 2000s Our journeys start exploring the Caucasus and new routes around the Caspian Sea

2014 We celebrated 50 years of Asia Overland with our first journey overland from Singapore to London

2021-22 the COVID pandemic halts touring in a way that the challenging geopolitics of the region have never achieved in over 50 years of continuous operations

2024 will see Sundowners Overland celebrate 60 years of Sharing Asia Overland. Differently.