Is it possible to embark on a road trip from Thailand to India, renting a car along the way?

Can't even travel between provinces mostly right now let alone to India.

India borders are closed atm

Must check out her travel blogs around the country

Just don’t believe everything about India that you see on CNN and BBC. It’s a paid propaganda by the opposition parties.

Covid Numbers are reducing day by day and FYI we have the biggest and fastest vaccination program in the world.(pic attached)

I know many people who are visiting India just to get the vaccine.

Tourism is opening up. So if you want to spend a couple of months, there are some beautiful places that you can visit. However Im unsure about the border crossings at the moment.

How about you land in say New Delhi or Mumbai and then begin your road trip across the country.

Everything is accessible and you could rent a car within the country.

India has beautiful landscapes and well connected highways(again don’t believe what you see on shitty media)

Good luck.

Walk the route, maybe give your head a shake every so often, while strolling through the borders, easy.

A road trip during Covid to a country that has even higher Covid numbers that not a good idea

If someone is foolish enough to want to do this, we should encourage them as much as possible so then they will be some other Country’s problem

Done that route twice precovid, England to Australia and return. There are plenty of blogs on the net. You won't be able to hire a car or bike for the trip. Google 'carnet' for India and you'll understand why. However.... during covid many of the land borders are closed. Wait 3 years.

You could hire an elephant, might take a bit longer, but would be a cool way to do it. Certainly get to see parts that you would never see if you went by road.

Reminds me of the movie Death Wish doubt you would get close to India

My friend rode his bicycle from here to there

With a vehicle it needs to be registered in your name at its County of registration. You need to have the registration documents match your passport and have the documents officially translated by the transport authorities into English.

Been there done that.

Bangkok to Scotland via China, Tibet and Central Asia 2019.

It is possible but not easy or cheap. China on its own was $5,500+++. And that was on a motorcycle.

As long as you do not plan on going through Myanmar, you'll be fine, but, you will need to buy the car, not rent it, and you will need insurance in each country you go through. Oh, and then there is covid, and the borders being closed, just to get out of Thailand.

Who wants to join me on an around the world covid tour... china, india, eastern europe, brazil, peru, mexico and florida!

You cannot travel to India for tourism right now due to covid and why would you want to? Worse possible time to be there.

To rent a car I would say thats a massive no no. You need to own your vehicles

Yes was possible pre covid times.

Now of course impossible but who knows for the future.

I know people who have done in camper vans, motorbikes an interesting trip.

It can be done. Just be prepared to hear “no” a lot. But it can be done. I wish you safe travels and am excited for you!

I'm sure some rental companies would be happy to let you rent a car from them and drive it out of Thailand, as long as you leave a cash deposit equivalent to the full value of the car. Getting a car you don't own across international borders won't be as easy.

1. Have you looked at a map to get to India?

2. I imagine traveling by car would be very expensive given the duties crossing over the countries. This is what you need to bring a private car into Laos:

Into China:

I'm not going to do your research for you.

3. You have a few routes to get to India from Thailand:

A. Thailand/Myanmar (Burma)/ India. Problem: Myanmar is in the middle of a civil war, and they have always been very difficult to get visas.

B. Thailand/ Laos/ China/ India. You get to avoid Myanmar, however China and India do not have the best relationship for now.

Remember, if you rent a car in Thailand, you'd have to figure out some way to bring it back.