rough itinerary

Dear Family(s),

As our trips gets closer and closer, we have now booked most of our flights and can tell you roughly
our whereabouts in our 6 months of travelling:

14.09. Fly from Berlin to Moscow
18.09. fly Moscow- Irkutsk (Siberia-Lake Baikal)
26.09. Train to Ulan Bator
04.10 Train to Beijing

In China rough Itinerary:

- Beijing
- Datong
- Xian
- Chengdu
- Three Gorges
- Chongqing
- Fenghuang
- Guilin
- Nanning
- Kunming
- Lijang
- Kunming
- Gejiu

Arrive in Vietnam: 02.11

- Sapa
- Hanoi
- Halong bay
- Hoi An
- Ho Chi Minh

Arrive Cambodia: about the 16.11

-Koh Rong Island
- Siem Rep

Arrive Thailand: 29.11

- Bangkok
- Koh Lanta

Arrive Malaysia: 14.12

- Tama Negra
- Cameron Highlands
- Kuala Lumpur

22.12 Fly Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinambalu (Borneo), fly back to Kuala L. on the 31.12
02.01. Fly Kuala Lumpur to Manado (Sulawesi/Celebes Islands/Indonesia)

- make our way to Togean Islands, then inland down south to Makassar (Ujang Padang)

16.01. Fly Makassar to Denpasar (Bali)

- Bali
- Lombok

30.01 Fly Denpasar to Darwin
31.01 Fly Darwin- Sydney
02.02 Fly Sydney to Auckland
24.02 Fly Auckland to Sydney

- Sydney/Blue Mountains
- Mini Road Trip to Melbourne

11.03 Fly Melbourne to Bangkok
15.03 Fly Bangkok Berlin

phew!

So that's about it. Very German of us to have most of it organized in advance, but it saves us the trouble of sitting in some dingy internet cafe! We are now organizing the last bits and pieces- boring stuff like Post re-direction, storage, canceling subscriptions etc..etc..
We have successfully sold our beloved old Mercedes, I have to say that we got rather attached to it, so I'm a bit sad, but at the end of the day it would've been more hassle when we get back..
We're both really excited, but at the moment the amount of organization keeps us from thinking too much about the trip itself. Once we are on the plane to Moscow though, I think it will hit us!
So, that's a rough guide to our trip, but we're doing a blog which we hope to update from time to time at www.josephleona@blogspot.com