So here is the run down of our trip.
There were a lot of places that Vic and I wanted to go to and a lot of things that we both wanted to do. We had a lot of overlap in many of our top destinations such as Mongolia, Russia, China and Tibet so those countries were in with the exception of Tibet thanks to our good ole friends at the Chinese embassy who pretty much scared us out of going. In addition to those countries, I wanted to do Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma) and climb Mount Kilimanjaro whereas Vic wanted to hit up India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Taking into consideration time, weather and trip logistics (the ease and expense at which we could travel overland into certain countries), we came up with the following itinerary.
Starting off in Mumbai, we are going to travel through Southern India for about a month eventually ending off in Bangaluru to see the World Cup Cricket match between Canada and Australia. We will then be flying to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka for a couple of weeks a piece before heading off to Hong Kong to see our friends and family. From Hong Kong, we will be travelling through China for 17 days towards Beijing before taking the Trans Siberian Railway from Beijing through Mongolia and Russia ending in St. Petes.
We decided to shave off a couple of our Asian destinations and spend a month being a bit more shee shee poo poo by spending our last month in Europe before heading back home. Thus from St. Petes, we're going to Helsinki (Finland), taking the boat to Estonia and then busing it to Latvia and onwards to Lithuania. We originally wanted to end it all off by spending a week in the Amalfi Coast in Southern Italy, but due to not being able to book an available flight through my Aeroplan air miles, we will be either ending it off in gay Paree or Athens.
