The beast gains strength

It is the middle of may, the sun is shining, the weather is perfect and the smell of spring is in the air. There is another smell in the air...the smell of mountains. The sweet air of the rainforest. What is causing these foreign smells? Where are all these lonely planet guides coming from? This can only mean one thing. The presence of the beast....the wanderlust gains strength.

I am swiftly running of out time when I can responsibly pack up my life and travel for months. I am 27, adulthood gains strength too, but the wanderlust is a fierce beast. There are many places I want to see, and to see them in small mini vacations is inefficient and expensive. Instead, I going to do a giant trip around the world. Kinda.

The details are thus far unclear. I know that it is going to include Northern India, Nepal, Bejing, and hong kong. I'd love to visit Egypt. I've been looking up costs, tossing around ideas and doing much dreaming and here is a rough draft of my grand, multi-month tour of the Eurasian Continent (with a bit of Africa tossed in):



Red= Overland Travel
Blue= Boat Travel
Green = Flights

It is cheapest to book a round trip ticket places. So London is a good hub to fly to. Start in london in September. Fly through Europe in a quick amount of time (Europe is easy to get to anyway. This I can do at later points in my life). Maybe stop in Czech Republic, eventually going to Greece. Find a ferry to Egypt (no direct ferries, you have to go through Cyprus). Go from Alexandria to Cairo, maybe ferry across the red sea to Jordan or something (the red sea is supposed to be amazing). Fly from Egypt to North India, hit up nepal and sikhim. Then back to New Delhi and fly to Bangkok. Go from Bangkok overland through hong kong to Bejing. Seeing some of china. Then take the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Mongolia and Siberia (in the middle of winter woohahaha) to Moscow and St. Peterburg, then hit the train back to London and fly in February or sometime like that. Sounds like fun? I think so.