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A planner for overland travel

Go the long way.
On purpose.

Trains, buses, ferries, shared taxis, the occasional hitch. SLW maps a realistic overland route between any two cities — and is honest about the legs it isn't sure about.

Free · 3 routes/mo
2,140
Verified overland legs
23
Countries mapped
62 days
Median trip length
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Or start with: Istanbul → Kathmandu Cape Town → Cairo Bangkok → London Oslo → Marrakech
What makes it different
Realistic
Legs we can verify, and legs we can't

Every route marks each segment: verified, check locally, or uncertain. We won't pretend a border is open when it isn't.

Overland only
Train · bus · ferry · taxi · thumb

Five modes, no flights. We route through the real network — including the scrappy bits other tools skip.

Live
Conflict and advisory data, refreshed

Warnings surface at the leg level, not buried in a PDF. If the Wagah border closes, your plan knows.

Routes the community has planned
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Istanbul → Kathmandu
via Iran, Pakistan, India
38 days
€890
Verified
Lisbon → Singapore
via Trans-Siberian + Mongolia
62 days
€1,640
Check locally
Cape Town → Cairo
East coast, Mozambique to Sudan
51 days
€1,120
Check locally
Oslo → Marrakech
Night trains all the way south
14 days
€520
Verified
Bangkok → London
via Central Asia + Caucasus
74 days
€1,980
Uncertain
Field notes
"Finally, a planner that admits when it doesn't know. I spent ten minutes on SLW instead of ten hours on forums."
M
Mira S.
Berlin → Hanoi · 47 days · 2024
How it works
01
Tell us where you're going
Two cities. Any continents.
02
We plot the realistic overland route
Confidence marked on every leg.
03
Book each leg yourself
We link to Rome2Rio, 12go, and local operators.
04
Keep a journal as you go
Notes sync with your route. Share or keep private.
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