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''Europe-Australia overland'' : Still in the process of doing it, see belowOctober 2008 - May 2011. <!-- I posted about hh in Central asia in the following thread:http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=12&post=5161263C$ tread might be available, but not here ~~~~ --> ''around australia 2011'': hitched around Australia again in 2011 ''Indonesia'': Went to a wedding and hitched from Bali to Jakarta

TOTAL = at least 39 038km Australia 2011 - 18 784km<br>->Around Darwin 100km<br>->Darwin-Katherine 450km<br>->Darwin->Canberra (according Via Bourke, Tamworth, Dubbo) - 4575km<br>->Canberra->Darwin (Via Oodanatta track) - 4288km<br>->Perth->Uluru (Via Great Central Road)->Port Augustus->Broken Hill->West Wylong->Canberra 4722km <br>->Canberra->South Coast NSW-> Pt. Augusta->Esperance->Perth 4649km<br>Indonesia 2011: Bali->Jakarta through mtns: 1448km<br>Europe 2011: Athens->Belgrade: 1130km<br>Europe 2012: 38,361km<br>->Belgrade-Berlin-Belgrade: 3202km<br>->Belgrade->Timisoara->Cluj->Reghin->Suceava->Brasov->Sibiu->Hunedoara->Belgrade: 1783km<br>->Belgrade->Nis->Sofia->Belgrade: 800km<br>->Belgrade->Tulza->Sarajvo->Split->Zadar->Zagreb->Belgrade->Sofia: 1790km<br>->Sofia->Plovdiv Return: 294km<br>->Sofia->Belgrade->Oradea->Ruzomberok->Brno->Munster->Lyon (including getting lost): 3376km<br>->Lyon->Antwerp->Paris->Auch: 1862km <br>->Cape Finisterra->Porto->Talvira->Vigo->Gijon->Santandar->Barcelona: 3155km<br>->Barcelona->Avila->Toulous->Auch->Biscarosse-Plage->Brussels->Osnabruck->Berlin (+side trips): 4150km<br>->Berlin->Warsaw->Vilnius (including getting lost): 1300km<br>->Vilnius->Ambrasikiai->Vilnius->Warsaw->Krakow->Lukovista->Ruzomberok->Arad->(lost in Romanian mountains)->Sibiu->Zemica->Blagovegrad: 2952km<br>->Blagovegrad->Tserovo->Blagovegrad->Sofia->Belgrade: 800km (including local hitching between Tserovo and Svogue)<br>->Belgrade->Oradea->Cluj->Iasi->Chisinau->Soroca->Tiraspol->Odessa->Kyiv :2103km (plus local Transnistrian hitching)<br>Kyiv->Mikolaiv->Djankoi->Kerch->Simferopol->Yalta->Bakhchisaray->Odessa->Cahul->Cluj (not direct routes): 2891km<br>Cluj->Brasov->Bucarest->Istanbul: 1172km<br>Istanbul->Iznik->Bodrum: 826km<br>Crete: Chania->Sitia: 270km <br>Rhodos: 320km<br>Marmaris->Izmir->Konya->Kayseri->Cappadocia->Kayseri->Eskişehir->Izmit: 2069km<br> Izmit->Kutahya->Usak->Antalya->Ankara (got lost too): 1467km<br>Ankara->Avanos->Ihlara->Anamur->Antalya->Butterfly Valley-> Izmır: 1779km <br><b>2013</b><br>Izmir->Mersin->Iskenderun: 1125km<br>ferry to google maps)egypt...<br>Port Said->Taba->Saint Catherines->Suez->Cairo: 1066km<br>

<b>Europe to Australia Overland</b><br><br>Rome-Thessaloniki - 3,358km (approximate, google maps is still unhappy with the Balkans)<br>Thessaloniki the Syrian Border - 3,032 km<br>Syria - not in total <br>Syrian Border to Kurdistan Border - 143 km<br>Kurdistan Border - around eastern Turkey - Georgian border - 3,900 km <br>Georgia - not in total <br>Azerbaijan - 800km <br>Kazakhstan - 5881km (approximately according to google maps) <br>China - July/Aug 2009 hitched sections of my trip approximately 11,500 km from Kaz border to shanghai and back to Kyrgz border<br>Kyrgyzstan - 2747km (approximate according to google maps) <br>Tajikistan - 1090km (approximate according to google maps) <br>Uzbekistan - 460km (approximate according to google maps) <br>/Afghanistan - not in Africa: South Africatotal <br>Pakistan - From Nov-Jan 2010 hitched around 5450km (approximate according to google maps)<br>India (Feb-April 2010) - 7850 km <br>Nepal - April-July 2010 - not calculted<br>India - July- ? 2010 - Nepal border to Kailashahar, Tripura, Lesothoaround NE to Kolkata, Swazilandacross to agra, Mozambiquenorth to Leh, MalawiKashmir to Golden Temple to Delhi to Kanyakumari to Kochi.Then to Munnar->Bangalore->Hyderabad->Mumbai->Surat->Ahmedabad->Kharan 14,943km<br> Bangkok to Singapore - 1838km<br>Singapore->Laos - 6227<br>Laos - not in total<br>Cambodia - 1520km<br>Cambodia->Bangkok->Singapore - 3024km <br>

Have kept a pretty accurate ride count Overland total: =73,766km *Syria, Nepal, Georgia, and it stands at ~1350 (March, 2010) :)Laos is missing from total<br><br>

Europe-Australia - will update this when I finish :<b>Grand TOTAL = at least 176,694km km(according to google maps)</b><br>

BE PREPARED! Be ready for everything, have enough food, waterHave kept a pretty accurate ride count and it stands at ~2300 (November, shelter and clothing for you handle whatever conditions that could arise where you are.2010) :)

Refuse rides! or at the very least get out of the car when the chance presents itself if you have a bad feeling.I have never refused a ride but I should have. I have had bad experiences...not with guys coming onto me or getting robbed, but I have been afraid for my life because they are such bad drivers. Or they have been having a domestic dispute with their partner. Have even had someone do a drug deal with me in the back and then had the client get into the car and snort a line of coke! Be a jack of all trades. Always let the cars occupants express their opinions first. Shape what you say around what they have already said. You may be selling yourself out but it makes for much pleasanter rides with much more hospitality extended to you. Give prizes for awesome rides/milestones. For example, every 100 rides with something special for 500...any advice for me when I hit it? ;) Know what you are getting yourself into. When you walk out on the road you are putting yourself in fates hands. Don't try to fight it, if the ride takes you back to somewhere you have already been, go with it. There is probably a reason for it. Trucks are a great resource if you want to get somewhere fast. Talking to truck drivers is also extremely rewarding because normally they have traveled extensively. However, you often miss out on lots of small things and truck drivers are normally limited in where they can stop. Truck drivers seemed to be more likely to pull over in Europe than elsewhere. Only had 1 ride out of over 100 in New Zealand with a truck. In Australia it was much the same but because of the vast empty spaces in Australia I did go to some truck stops. Some truck companies will not allow anyone but company staff in their vehicles. I found over 50% of drivers were willing to drive me but often they were going to the wrong destination. In Australia, you are much much more likely to get a ride with a truck if you ask a truck driver while he is pulled over.  Don't get in trouble with the authorities! Know if hitching is illegal, or if it's just illegal on motorways. Police and especially border patrol can make your life miserable! :| =='''NOW'''My Advice== As of mid October 2008 I have been hitch hiking east from Rome. Started with my younger sister and went Italy-Slovenia-Croatia-Bosnia-Montengro-Kosovo-Macedonia-Greece-Turkey.  Sister went home. Kept going solo. Turkey-Syria-Turkey-Northern Iraq-Turkey-Georgia-Azerbaijan FERRY! cheated :( Kazakhstan-China (to Shanghai and then back through Tibetan areas)-Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan CHEATED flew Kabul-Peshawar - Pakistan-India

next? nepal and thenWalk out the highway, put your hand in the air...?? still trying see where the road takes you :) Surrender to go overland to Australia with no more planesthe journey as much as possible!