The long way home - Prologue - 17500 km overland to reach my hometown!
Outline of the trip: Day 1 - 4 : London-Brussels-Koln-Warsaw-Minsk-Moscow Day 4-10: Moscow-Yekaterinburg-Novosibirisk-Irkutsk-Listvyanka Day 11-14: Lake Baikal-Ulan Ude Day 15-19: Mongolia / Ulan Bator Day 20-23: Beijing Day 24-30: Beijing-Lhasa-Shigatse-Quomolangma (Mt Everest) Base Camp Day 31-32: Lhasa-Kathmandu-Siliguri Eurostar in Brussels Koln station Warsaw Gauge change of trains to the Russian system Moscow Belorusskaya terminal The Trans-Siberian journey Lake Baikal Horse traders in Mongolia The great wall of China The railway station in Lhasa Mount Everest base camp Purple Haze, Thamel, Kathmandu Good old Indian Railways, after travelling 192 hours on foreign trains ***************************************************************************** Read about the first leg - London to Moscow, the second leg - Trans Siberian, the third leg to Mongolia, the fourth part over to Tibet and finally the concluding leg of crossing the Himalayas into India. *****************************************************************************...
