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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
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