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>Is this at all feasible?
Look up the Mongol Rally. People manage to get to Ulaan-Baatar (or, recently, to Ulan-Ude) with very modest cars.

I have no personal experience, but I've researched it a bit. Advice that I've heard is that it's better to drive around the Caspian sea rather than take a ferry. Also, apparently Turkmenistan is pretty strict about internal travel. Friends who have overlanded through Iran had only good things to say about the place.

I can recommend Chris Scott's "Overlanders' Handbook" as a decent introduction if you haven't tried this kind of travel before. It's a little bit geared towards people with bougie camper rigs, but there's still plenty of good information in there.

Is your Merc petrol or diesel? I've heard that diesel can be more difficult to come across in Russia and Central Asia. Maybe some who have traveled there can confirm.

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