Tibet here we come! Not entirely content with missing Tibet off our trip earlier this year it’s time to start planing to put that right with my lovely Kath. After much research and feverish checking of weather patterns (read “looked it up in Lonely Planet”) we’ve plumped for March\April next year. Hopefully far enough away we might have some spare money by then too!
Now just need to decide on a transportation and route. Hitching, biking, bussing, 4×4, trekking? One thing I do know is, I really want to go via Everest, and if possible up to Everest basecamp. Do we go in via China and catch some terracotta warriors and great wall? Straight in to Lhasa? In over Nepal border and see Everest first? So many things to think about!
Well this is old news now, but one last map post! Courtesy of Microsoft (silly name) Bing Maps 3D here’s the full world tour route working out at around 65,000 miles by foot, flippers, rubber ring, canoe, kayak, zorb, segway, bike, motorbike, moped, car, tuk tuk, cyclo, bus, train, sail boat, motor boat, catamaran, rowing boat, ferry, truck, yute, Tsong Tao, Russian 4×4, and plane (no helicopter, due to bad weather).
This is going to be first two pages in my little book project (a personal combination of diary and photo album) of our travels, I might well add some more historical posts here as I get going. Some people seem to still take a look at this site now and then! Just looking at the search stats and there’s no way you’d guess what people are searching for to get to this bog. People are strange! Right up there is “around the world itineraries” which is predictable maybe but ”Abandoned Theme Parks” and “Dog Meat Market”, “Rucksac Injury” and “Leg Irons” are right up there too, also “Pictures of Boobies”, my personal favourite!
Click the map for a full size version! and here for the itinerary.
