RALLY ITINERARY:
LONDON TO PEKING

  • England
    Departure from Tower Bridge - May 1, 2000 - Ferry from
    Dover to France
  • France - Normandy to Chantilly to Aix le Bains - May 2 & 3
  • Italy - Santa Margherita via Pisa and Chianti to Ancona -
    May 4
  • Greece- Igoumenitsa via Mount Olympus to Thessaloniki -
    May 5
  • Turkey - Via inland roads to coast road before Kavala and on
    to Istanbul, then on to Bolu and Samsun on the Black Sea -
    May 7 - 11
  • Georgia - Sarphi to Batumi to Tbilisi - May 12 - 14
  • Azerbaijan - From Tbilisi to the border via Fagarejo
    via foothills of Caucasus and river valleys to Baku to board
    ferry for fourteen hour night crossing to Turkmenistan - May 15
  • Turkmenistan - Turkmenbashi to Ashkhabad to Chardzhou -
    May 16 - 19
  • Uzbekistan - Through the Great Silk Roads which came this
    way from China and where Alexander the Great swept
    through, to the famous city of Samarkand - May 19 - 21
  • Kazakstan - Uzbekistan - Kyrgystan - over the Nuratau
    mountains to Tashkent and on to Bishek, Lake Ysys-Ko to
    Naym - May 21 - 23
  • China - Over the snow-covered Tarrogut Pass at 3800
    metres to border post of Kashgar - May 24
    China May 25 through June 10: Kashgar-Hotan-Niya-Korala-
    Turpan-Hami-Dunhuang-Zhangye-Lanzhou-Yinohuan-
    Baotou-Zhangjiakou-Peking
Itinerary includes portions of both the north and south
Silk Roads and crossing of the Taklimakan Desert