- Penpont, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
- Our starting point.
- London
- A quick stop off to see friends, then on the EuroStar, bound for Cologne.
- Cologne
- Transfer here to Warsaw
- Warsaw
- Sleeper train to Moscow
- Moscow
- From here we board the Trans-Siberian railway, taking us over 8,000 kilometres, across 7 timezones, into Asia, with stops along the way.
- Yekaterinburg, Siberia
- The cross-over point from Europe to Asia, Yekaterinburg is set in the middle of the Ural mountains, just 25 miles away from the Europe-Asia Obelisk, which marks the border between the two continents.
- Novosibirsk, Siberia
- Bol'shoye Goloustnoye
- A small village on the shores of Lake Baikal, where we will be sharing and learning folk traditions and crafts.
- Ulan Bator, Mongolia
- Through mountain ranges to one of the highest and coldest cities of the world.
- Beijing, China.
- Across the Great Wall of China. Then onto Beijing.
- Xian, China
- Xi'an Guyue ("Xi'an Drum Music", which is actually a mixture of drums and woodwind instruments). As an oboist, Tom's particularly interested in the shawm, a double-reeded instrument, similar to an oboe, with a flared bell (the bottom bit).
- Chengdu
- Yangshuo, Guangxi
- Kunming, Yunnan
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Into South East Asia
- Phonsavan, Laos
- Hoi An
- Ho Chi Minh
- Home to the second oldest musical instrument in the world, a pentatonic stone marimba over six thousand years old: the Dan Da
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Siem Reap, Cambodia
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Phuket, Thailand
- We need to hitch a ride from here to the Andaman Islands - if anyone has any tips (or a yacht!), please let us know.
- Andaman Islands
- Chennai, India
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Studying at a Cultural centre for 1 month, near here. Studying Karnatic singing and violin.
- Delhi
- We'll be spending a week in a Delhi recording studio, specialising in traditional Punjabi music.
- Chandigarh
Our Route
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