So the tickets have tonight been bought. The intended departure date of 24th November has been brought forward and the route in Oz changed slightly. All in all, its worked out quite well and cheaper thanks to Stewart our STA Travel advisor who was awesome and gave us lots of advice about timing for the better weather and general traveller know how. He even offered us the big red sofa in their shop next time one of us finds ourselves homeless after a night on the tiles (One to remember Rob!)- So a big thanks to Stewart.
The country route is as before but we will be traveling clockwise around Oz to avoid typhoon season in Cairns, still hitting Sydney for New Years eve celebrations as well as the New Years Test match! From then we will depart from Melbourne, for the toughest leg -Asia, mostly on foot, hopefully, and public transport - 7 months! We will then, to keep it cheap, fly to Delhi and trek to Nepal after a short train ride! Once we have treked around Nepal and done some whitewater sports, we will cut back across India for the final trek to Mumbai for the trip home!
We're quite excited now and quite frankly we cannot wait, although its gonna be quite emotional for me (Pete) leaving you lot behind!
Keep in touch by this blog, email (Pete - psutcl2000@lineone.net) and facebook. We'll be in touch as often as we can be and will keep sending stories and photo's back.
Below are rough dates of when we'll be there just in case any of you want to meet up with us! I've done it before so. Do what you feel - keep it real, come join us!
Australia 19/11/07 - 12/02/08
Indonesia 12/02/08 - 12/04/08
Malaysia 12/04/08 - 12/05/08
Thailand 12/05/08 - 12/06/08
Laos 12/06/08 - 12/07/08
Vietnam 12/07/08 - 12/08/08
Cambodia 12/08/08 - 12/09/08
Nepal 12/09/08 -12/10/08
India 12/10/08 - 08/11/08
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
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