The Route

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Saturday 25th August 2012 - Leave St Pancras International

- Cologne - Warsaw - Vilnius - St Petersburg


Our route will take us from London to Cologne, Warsaw, Vilnius and St Petersburg where we pick up the Trans Siberian
Image Reproduced by Kind Courtesy of The Man in Seat 61

Saturday 1st September 2012 - Trans Siberian Express

- St Petersburg - Moscow - Vladimir - Suzdal - Yekateringberg - Irkutz - Lake Baikal - Ulan Ude - Ulaanbaatar - Ger Camp - Beijing

Our route from St Petersburg on the Trans Siberian/Trans Mongolian to Beijing and beyond
Image Reproduced by Kind Permission of The Man in Seat 61

Saturday 28th September 2012 - China

Beijing - Pingyao - Xi'an - Jiayuguan- Dunhuang - Lanzhou - Xiahe - Chengdu - Kunming - Lijiang - Dali - Fengshuang - Wulingyuan - Changsha - Yangshuo

22nd December 2012 - Vietnam

Hanoi - Halong Bay - Hue - Hoi An - Quy Nhon - Saigon - Dalat - Con Dao Islands - Mekong Delta

The Rest of the Trip

Cambodia is next followed by Indonesia.  

We have sadly had to rethink travelling along the railway from Bangkok to Singapore due to both time constraints and funds.  After discussing it at length we decided we would not be able to stop for any length of time to see any of Kuala Lumpar, Penang or Singapore along the way which is not how we like to travel in any case.  We have therefore agreed to put that journey on the "to do" for another time.

We will continue to travel overland as much as we can but time is running out and funds are always limited so we may have to fly around Indonesia and definitely from Bali to Adelaide before 24th May 2013 which is the date by which Dawn needs to validate her Australian visa.

Our travels are flying past at an alarming speed.