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Planned Itinerary - August 2001 to May 2002
The tentative route planned for the expedition is as follows:
- From Perth, Scotland down through Eng Midlands to Channel Tunnel
- France, down to just north of Paris then back up through Belgium below Brussels.
- Germany down through West and South to Austria
- Austria across north and east
- Slovakia south west corner
- Hungary through the middle
- Romania down through middle and out the south east corner
- Bulgaria across north, east and south
- Turkey down to Gallipoli, Istanbul round med and up through middle before crossing down into Iran
- Iran along Caspian Sea, Tehran, Estafan, Shiraz, Zedehan and into Pakistan
- Pakistan around Afghanistan and remaining north of Islamabad
- China arriving via Karakorum, south of Taglamakan desert, up to Urumqi, across to Lanzhou, Wuhan back west to Chongqing, Chengdu, corner of Tibet, south east through Kunming to Laos
- Laos straight through
- Thailand s bend down it
- Malaysia down main highway to KL across peninsula to East coast down to Singapore
- Boat via East Timor to Darwin
- Australia - Darwin Kakadu NP, Kimberley's, Canning Stock route across north western desert of WA to coast then down to Perth