TRIP OVERVIEW

Trip Overview, Or Plan N?

K2K stands for Kangarilla to Kathmandu

As mentioned in the previous post the initial few hundred k’s will be ridden in stages from Kangarilla to Port Augusta following the Kidman and Mawson Trails. This will allow us to finalise our bike and gear set ups before we head off on the long way around in the first week of May 2016.



Approximate route Stage 2 K2K

One of our biggest aims is to ride as many alternative routes than Highway 1 as possible. We will follow the coast around the Eyre Peninsula then head west across the Nullabor to Esperance and then Albany. Albany is the trail head for the Munda Biddi Trail, 1000km of Mountain Bike Goodness all the way to Perth.

Then we will head North to Broome and across the Gibb River Road through the heart of The Kimberley ultimately reaching Darwin. 

In October, we will head home for a break until the season is right to head to a circumvelo of Bali and Lombok, followed by a flight to Singapore that will begin our tour of South East Asia. Hopefully we will be able to cycle across Myanmar from Thailand to North Eastern India. We intend to ride quite a lot of India, ultimately reaching the Indian Himalaya, riding the highest roads in the world through Kashmir and Jammu.

But wait, there’s more, heading back east through Northern India, we will head up into Nepal to Kathmandu. All going well and seasons aligning with our plans, we will fly to Lhasa in Tibet, riding the Friendship Highway across the Tibetan Plateau to Everest base camp on the Tibetan side, followed by the longest descent in the world back into Nepal and Kathmandu.

And Then?????