Well, before going to detail planning, let me try to give an idea of the route map, it was so long a trip and we touched upon so many places, you might feel lost unless I show it in a map. It's actually too big to be shown in a map, still trying with 3 snaps, first one on whole route map at a glance and next two are detail maps of njiang and Tib. This is the best njiang map I ever seen in a travel agent's office and took a snap of it, Tib map I found in net, can't recall from which site I downloaded it. But both are pretty accurate.
Overview of the route:
详细介绍之前，大体说一下本次旅行的路线图。
这是一次长途旅行，造访了很多地方。
如果不用地图来标明，你们也许会感到迷茫
有三张地图，第一张是整个路线图一瞥，第二、三张分别是和的地图。
地图是我从旅行社办公室拍下来的，地图是网上找到的，忘了从哪个网站下。
By Road:
Day 2 - Urumqi - Burqin (Pronounce as Burzin), our one of the longest drive 750km drive through Jungaar Basin (A part of Gobi Desert) to Northern Altai Region, Burqin is gateway of Altai Perfecture. We saw multi colored Bay on the way. (A-B)
Day 3 - Short drive of 150km from Burqin to Jiayu which is gateway of Kanas Nature Park and explore the park, this is extremely close to border of Mongolia, Russia and Kazakstan with China and the climate is just like Southern Siberian Tundra, in Sep, we were experiencing -15 degree C at night here. (B-C)
Day 4 - Full day explore the Kanas Park
Day 5 - Jiayu - Back to Burqin - Kary, a drive of 400 km. Kary is the oil city of China, you can see natural oil spring here. This is the place where you see the zing landscapes created by Air Erosion called Ghost City (Chinese are very imaginative and they name almost everything to Ghost or Dragon, you will find hundreds of Ghost Cities and Dragon Bays in China) (C-B-D)
Day 6 - Kary - Sayram Lake - 300km drive (D-E)
Day 7 - Sayram Lake - Nti Grassland - 400km drive (E-F)
Day 8 - Nti - Kuqa (Pronounce Kucha) - 500km drive (F-G)
Day 9- Kuqa Around
Day 10 - Kuqa - Niya (Minfeng) - 750km, crossing World's longest Desert Highway to South Silk Route's first Oasis (G-H)
Day 11- Niya - Hotan - 200km (Hotan is somewhere between H and I, not showing here)
Day 12 - Hotan - Kashgar - 550km (To Point I)
Day 13 - Kashgar - Karakul Lake / Tashkurgan on Karakoram Highway (Somewhere between I and J) - 300km
Day 14 - Tashkurgan - Kunjerab Pass till border of Pakistan and back to Tashkurgan on Karakoram Highway - 250km (Kunjerab Pass is Point J)
Day 15- Tashkurgan - Kashgar Back - 300km
Day 16- Kashgar Around
Day 17 - Fly Back to Urumqi (I to A)
Day 18 - Drive from Urumqi to Turpan (A to K) and back to Urumqi - Total drive of 450km
Day 19 - Fly from Urumqi to ning (A to L)
Start of Tib Leg
Day 20 - From ning (L) catch the Mountain Train to Lhasa (O) via Golmud (M) and Nag qu (N), Total journey of 2000km
Day 21 - Reach Lhasa (N)
Day 22 - Explore Lhasa
Day 23 - Lhasa - Nam Tso - Lhasa (We skipped this later as my daughter was not well, instead we explore Lhasa more)
Day 24 - Lhasa - Shegatse (Taking the Friendship Highway) Drive of 350km
Day 25 - Shegatse - Shegar, 300km Drive
Day 26 - Shegar - Everest North Base Camp at Rongbuk (Drive of 100km) (We couldn't finally made it because of super cyclone Philine, which blocked road for more than 72 hours)
Day 27 - Rongbuk - Drum (Jhangmu) 300 km drive
Day 28 - Drum clear Chinese Immigration and proceed to Kathmandu (Nepal) (P) Drive of 130km
Day 29 - Kathmandu - Kolkata Flight back home
Total overland distance traveled around 10000km
第1天：加尔各答-昆明-乌鲁木齐（坐飞机）
第2天：乌鲁木齐-布尔津县（A-B）
第3天：从布尔津县开车150公里到达喀纳斯自然公园的门户贾登峪（B-C）
第4天：探索喀纳斯公园
第5天：贾登峪-布尔津-克拉玛依，开车400公里（C-B-D）
第6天：克拉玛依- 赛里木湖 开车300公里（D-E）
第7天：赛里木湖-那拉提草地 开车400公里（E-F）
第8天：那拉提-库车 开车500公里（F-G）
第9天：在库车到处转
第10天：库车-尼雅 750公里 （G-H）
第11天：尼雅-和田 200公里
第12天：和田-喀什 550公里（I）
第13天：喀什-卡拉库里湖/塔什库尔干 300公里
第14天：塔什库尔干-红其拉甫关口，然后回到塔什库尔干 250公里（红其拉甫关口位于J）
第15天：塔什库尔干-喀什 300公里
第16天：喀什到处转
第17天：飞回乌鲁木齐（I-A）
第18天：从乌鲁木齐开车到吐鲁番（A-K），然后回到乌鲁木齐 驱车总里程450公里
第19天：从乌鲁木齐飞到西宁（A-L）
第20天：从西宁坐火车到拉萨（L-O），途中经过格尔木（M）和那曲（N），总里程2000公里
第21天：到达拉萨（N）
第22天：探索拉萨
第23天：拉萨-纳木错-拉萨
第24天：拉萨-日喀则，开车350公里
第25天：日喀则-新定日 开车300公里
第26天：新定日-珠峰北大营
第27天：绒布- Drum (Jhangmu) 开车300公里
第28天：开车130公里到尼泊尔加德满都
第29天：坐飞机从加德满都回加尔各答
以上总里程大约1万公里。
ning to Lhasa (2000km) in one day ? that to at such great height...
Now this hats off goes to chinese
In india, even in pns we can't match this, not even close to it
西宁到拉萨（2000公里）一天就走完？而且海拔这么高
要向中国人致敬了
在印度，就是平原我们也比不上这个速度，连边都沾不上
kshil
Ankush, to be precise 23 hours 30 mins with almost an hour stop in different stations. So actual running time is 22 hours 30 mins to cover this 1996km from ning to Lhasa, out of that for 1118km between Golmud and Lhasa it runs above 4000 mtrs. They started building Golmud Lhasa section in 29th June 2001 and first train reached Lhasa on 12th October 2005 and commercial operation started on 1st July 2006. Just 5 years flat!! now compare that with our Kashmir Train links
准确的说是23小时30分钟，中间各站停车加起来花了差不多一个小时。实际从西宁到拉萨1996公里的旅行时间是22小时30分钟，其中格尔木到拉萨之间1118公里路程的海拔4000米以上。
2001年6月29日，中国开始建格尔木到拉萨的铁路，第一列火车于2005年10月12日抵达拉萨，2006年7月1日开跑第一列商业火车，前后历时5年整！跟我们连接克什米尔的铁路比比吧