Route Map (overview)

ilesmark — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:20:13 +0000

Here is an overview of the entire route, travelled anti-clockwise from the point where the red lines meet in Germany.

Red is where the car and I went together.
Blue is where the car went by sea (obviously!)
Green is where I went without the car

64,500 Kilometres (or 40,300 miles)
20,000 GBP once on the road
10,300 litres of diesel (or 2,270 gallons)
9,000 GBP to buy, prepare and equip the car
17 months on the road
14 countries with the car
12 oil changes
4 times police wanted to bust me for speeding or overtaking in Russia/Kazakhstan
3 countries without the car
2 punctures
1 speeding ticket (200 Pakistani Rupees)
0 times the police actually managed to bust me in Russia/Kazakhstan (because we didn’t speak the same language)

This website is very much still being updated – I didn’t do enough with it while I was travelling and, as of Mar 2011, I am now spending every (available) night working on it until it’s finished. It’s getting ridiculous that it’s gone on this long, and I don’t want the memories to fade away. The photos and videos are all there, but I am working on the text to tell the story behind them. Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, India, Burma, Malaysia, Cambodia, Eastern Russia and Kazakhstan, are completed, as is all the stuff relating to getting ready for the trip and Overland Travel Tips. Still in gestation is everything else, although Pakistan is almost done. So if this is your first visit, please keep checking back as it WILL change and (hopefully) improve.

A couple of points:-
- When you go to individual pages, you will see various photos and videos. Click on the play button to see the videos. Each photo you see is actually the cover page of an album. Click on the photo to bring up the entire album. You can either look at each photo individually or you can click on ‘slide show’ and Picasa will run the whole thing for you.
- You will be able to see more detailed maps of individual countries in Google Earth, together with some GPS tracks and waypoints when I get around to loading these up. Stay tuned!
- Equipment, Preparation, Cats and Leaving Do all relate to what happened before I left the UK. I had a bit of difficulty dividing Equipment and Preparation. In the end, I included work done to the car in preparation whilst the equipment section means everything carried on or in the car.

Mark's trip halfway around the world and back in a Toyota Landcruiser

Route Map (overview)