Where to go for a 4x4 adventure?

[Panda157]

Hi, newbie to the site but looking for advice/inspiration!

My friend and I bought a 1999 Fiat Panda 4x4 last year and this year raced it 3,000km across the Sahara in Morocco in a rally called Panda Raid. It was amazing.

We are now looking for something else to do. We both work so short trips would be great. Something across the Alps perhaps using off road tracks. We are open to any ideas but it needs to feel like an adventure, so not just driving on motorways/auto routes.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[AmyRichardson]

Budapest-Bamako or are there a million entries these days? Dessert Raid?

The cynic in me says everything will be much more commercial and you won't recapture the experience of 25 years ago, but pretty sure that a multi-'000km run across Africa or Central Asia would still be epic!

[DelicaL400]

There was an awesome Panda 4x4 parked up near the service area on the Yorkshire Hill Rally last month which made me wonder if anyone would be daft enough to enter some comp safari events in one. Perhaps that could be you?!

[z4goon]

Bosnia.

We’re here now. Absolutely LOADS of 4x4 tracks, half the actual roads require a 4x4 to get around them.

96p a litre for diesel, cheap food both in the supermarkets and eating out, and friendly locals. Beautiful scenery that is natural, not overdeveloped for tourism.

We’re coming upto 5 months into a 2 year trip around Europe and it’s our favourite country so far.

[Panda157]

Thanks for the help so far. I’ll try and add some photos of our trip.

[fttm]

Iceland surely

[JQ]

fttm said:

Iceland surely

It is illegal to off-road in Iceland.

[IroningMan]

Isn’t there an end-to-end/coast-to-coast off-road route in the Pyrenees?