So, die Route steht. Los gehts am 01-09-2005 in Istanbul. Für Leute, die Interesse an der Route haben, hier die folgenden Eckdaten. Wer sich darüber austauschen oder auch eine Karte für die eigene Planung haben möchte, bitte schreiben.

01.09.2005 Istanbul
Biking - 800 KM – 14 days – more or less flat or moderate hills
15.09.2005 Sinop (or Samsun more east)
We take a ferry and have a little rest
20.09.2005 Trabzon
Biking – 300 KM – 6 days – mountainous
26.09.2005 Erzurum
Biking – 300 KM – 6 days – mountainous
01.10.2005 Dogubayazit (Turkey) / Bazaryan (border) / Maku (Iran)
We take a Bus or a Truck or something else, there are six busses daily to Tabriz, a four
hour journey
03.10.2005 Tabriz
Biking – 300 KM – 5 days– moderate
08.10.2005 Ardabil/Astara
Biking – 600 KM – 8 days – at the coast
18.10.2005 Tehran
Train to Mashad
19.10.2005 Mashad
Biking – 180 KM – 3 days – flat
22.10.2005 Sarakhs (Turkmenistan)
Biking – 470 KM – 6 days – flat
28.10.2005 Charzhou (Usbekistan)
Biking 400 KM – 4 days- flat
02.11.2005 Samarkand
Train (every day to Tashkent)
04.11.2005 Tashkent
Train (three times a week to Margilan)
06.11.2005 Margilan in the Fergana valley
Biking – 80 KM – 1 day – flat
08.11.2005 Osh
Biking – 520 KM – 7 days – moderate mountainous
We use the Irkestham-pass
15.11.2005 Kashgar (China)
Biking – 420 KM – 7 days – mountainous
20.11.2005 Kunjerab-pass on the Karakoram-Highway KKH
Biking – 15 days on the KKH
We have to save some time in Turkey to be much earlier at the pass.
07.12.2005 Islamabad

and then east to

Kathmandu