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Originally Posted by James Rothwell
Hi,
I'm also planning something similar.
I'm using Googlemaps for the map of the route.
I used WikiTravel/Wikipedia/Virtual Tourist websites to find places of interest in the countries I wanted to visit and then adapted my route accordingly.
I used Trip Advisor to find hotels/B&Bs in the towns that I wanted to stay in and for the places I thought would be nice to camp I just googled as much as possible to find others that had camped in that area to make sure it was safe.
Also use Wikipedia to check the climate and what the likely weather will be like along your route to make sure there is no nasty surprises, or wet/cold weather along your route.
Send me a PM if you like and we can discuss.
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Google maps I currently my best friend  I was very pleased last night when I realised I could save the route as PDF! I now have my preliminary route planned for Mongolia! (working backwards as I plan to cross China so fixed exit point)
As for accomadation....I love my tent.....at the minute  once in to Laos there is very little plan other than apply for Aus Visa and a Carnet once bored of Thia/Laos/Cambodia or weather gets grotty!
My plan is to leave uk in March then basically follow the spring/summer to Aus! Sounds really disorganised....is a bit but 3 months to plan it all get Visas etc. oh yeah and my passport got sent off for its renewal yesterday! hopefully not too ambitious!
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Originally Posted by duibhceK
My toolkit for route planning: Wikipedia/Wikitravel in combination with motoplaner.de or SAS.Planet for routing.
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Thank you! I have just had a quick play with the motoplanner, am I right in thinking that I can plot a route on here the simply export it as a file type that will work in say a Garmin zumo 660? It took me a few mins to work out that if you hover over stuff it comes up in English
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