Hello again! In this post I'll give you a detailed version of my itinerary. Those who are following me on facebook will already know the global idea, but anyway, here goes: I'll start my trip somewhere around the 4th of July. On that day I'll take a train to Paris where I'll board another train that will take me to Moskou. There I'll transfer once again to another train that takes me to Almaty (Kazakhstan). This will be my starting point and I'll leave Almaty on my bicycle around the 17th of July. I'll first be going to Kashgar in China, passing Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Samarkand and Buxoro), Tadjikistan (Dushanbe, Khorog and the Pamir Highway) and a very small part of Kyrgyzstan along the way. This part will be very warm (between 17 and 36degrees, but lower on the Pamir Highway (10 to 26degrees) and will involve a lot of hard climbing, mainly in Tadjikistan since the Pamir Highway goes up to 4000 meter. I hope to arrive in Kashgar on the 16th of September. After some rest in Kashgar I'll take a train to Lanzhou, where I hope to start the second cycling part of my trip on the 24th of September. From Lanzhou I'll cycle south, straight to Laos. I can choose between a very nice route in the mountains (colder, more climbing, way more beautiful and rural) or a route along the river (easier, warmer). I'll pass Chengdu and Kunming along the way and hope to arrive in Luang Namtha (Laos) on the 15th of November. The part will be colder (starting at 10 - 21 degrees.and lovwering to 4 -15 before warming up again a bit more) and it will all be in China, a country that for now doesn't really appeal to me, nor does the people as a matter of fact. Hopefully I'll learn to appreciate their ways and enjoy my time there! The third part of my trip is a lazy one: I'll spend my time doing whatever I feel like doing in South-East Asia (Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, maybe Myanmar, Vietnam, .... ) until the weather in China gets warm enough to go cycling again (I plan to leave from Hanoi (Vietnam) on the 12th of April). During this relaxing time (where I'll probably also be cycling a lot) I'll also get a visit from my boyfriend in December. He'll visit me for two, three weeks and when he goes back his suitcase will be filled with all the stuff I don't need anymore (mainly stuff for the colder weather). Then it's time for another cycling adventure, once again in China. From Hanoi I'll cycle north towards Beijing, where I should arrive on the 3th of June. From there I'll take a ferry to South-Korea and cycle from Seoul to Pusan. From there I'll take one last ferry and arrive in Japan. This part will include very few mountains so it should be easier The weather will be between 17 and 31 degrees, so very pleasant. The fifth and second-last part of the trip will be in Japan. I hope to arrive in Japan on the 18th of June and will leave it again around the 8th of September. I plan to cycle the island of Kyushu first in June, then go up tot Honshu. I don't know yet what I'll do there: cycling, volunteering, ... but it will be fun! In August I'll spend three weeks with my taiko-group from home. Taiko is a form of drumming, from Japan and we'll be visiting a huge taiko-festival in Japan. Of course my boyfriend will be coming over as well, since he's also a member of the group. When they go back to Belgium by airplane I hope to send my bicycle and a few other items with them, so I don't have to worry about them anymore during the final part of my trip. The final part of my journey is the return trip to Belgium. This will be done by taking the Transsiberian train from Vladivotok (leaving on the 10th of September) to Moskou. From there it's once again a train to Paris and then on to Brussels: home and ending of my fabulous journey of 14 months and the place where my boyfriend is! I plan on arriving there the 27th of September 2017. Just one thing people: the dates are guidelines, not exact science. During the trip I'll spend more time in certain cities and less in others, take different routes, have troubles here and there and godspeed at others... . So don't put any of those dates in a calender, 'cause you can't trust it! :) In the meantime I figured out what sleeping bag I'd like to buy and put all the stuff that I already have on a scale. This means that my next post will probably be something about my packing list. see you next time! Kelly
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