From Kathmandu, the journey moves towards India for a duration of approximately five
months, the six-month Indian visa is non-renewable except a border crossing.
Then the trip goes to Pakistan with a return to India to re-examine Ladakh
before finishing in Delhi to do the necessary administrative work papers to
visit the Southeast Asia.
The daily plan of road
was defined with dates at the earliest and at the latest.
It was established with backward of the Malaysia entry date envisaged
the 01/10/2007 at the end of the monsoon. The date at the earliest is that of
the entry a country and the date at the latest is that of the border crossing
of the following country due to the validity of the visa. It thus gives a
greater freedom as for the duration of stay in the country concerned and on
the sites to be visited.
India:
The trip is organized from east to west starting from Nepal by the coast of
Coromandel, Eastern Ghats, to the Cap Comorin then the coast of the
Malabar, Western Ghats, by in particular visiting the old French counters and the main
sites of Rajasthan. The objective is to travel the provinces not visited
before, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. At the return from Pakistan, if the
safety of the area allows it, I will re-examine the monasteries of Ladakh
while passing by Srinagar before finishing in Delhi.
Pakistan:
The travel schedules around Karakoram Highway traversed five times before in the
minibus at the time of my trekkings. I will try, there too if safety allows
it, to go through Khyber pass, where all the conquerors of India passed since
Alexander the Great at the time of his return towards Macedonia starting from
Peshawar. It is located in the Tribal Area between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The journey in India and in Pakistan is a pilgrimage of the sites that I liked in my former life, see pages of this website: Voyages, while extending to the unknown areas. The Net surfers understood while reading the Report of the trip in China that I am not a “frantic driver”. I like to take my time to visit historic sites and to admire landscapes. Museums and monuments do not give me a headache.
