its time

go to bodghaya return and stayday at bodgaya and return to gaya and stay.Have i got time to go to patna,further north [michael wood city]
DOON exp to varanassi 5.05 am to 12.20
gaya,varanasi and patna are all pretty close...maybe stay patna
or gaya then patna than
sarnath for varanassi

see fort and taj mahal -stay agra
AGRA CANTT to new dehli
KERALA EXP no.2625 1003 to 1320

Browse city cable car to mansai devi temple,stay haridwar.Go to RISIKESH .AMBALA/KALKA TRAIN

browse old shimla,check out theatre[michael palin].Bus/taxi/toy train to dharamsala.

spend some time at the temple, go to the bus station, find the bus to Wagah (I think it was gate 37; dropped off a woman I met on the train to Amritsar a month and a half ago), which leaves every 20 minutes I think, at Wagah get a rickshaw to the border, go through customs and immigration on both ends, then grab a rickshaw to Attari village, from where there are buses to Lahore. Those buses take half an hour. All in all, Amritsar to Lahore should take no more than 3 hours.
heck out border ceremony

ARRIVE The buses leave for Gilgit after every 2 hours, start from 8:00 AM in the morning till 10:00 PM at night.
repeat NATCO buses, coaches, coasters, leave for Gilgit from Pirwadhai bus stand Rawalpindi, 665 km from Rawalpindi to Gilgit, 16 to 18 hrs, Abbaotabad, Chattar plain, Batagram, Besham, Dasu,Chilas then Gilgit, an excellen trip.
NATCO bus terminal
Ph: 051 92 78 441
2
stay gilgit
Serene Guest House
Tourist Cottage



After 2 hrs the very scenic part of KKH starts when the bus ascends the slopes of Abbotabad and the weather gets better.

it is some 16 to 18 hrs drive, from Rawalpindi Pir Wadhai bus terminal, Abbotabad, Manshera, Chattar plain, Besham, Chilas and Gilgit.

There are flights to Gilgit from Islamabad Benazir Bhutto International airport, at 7:15 AM in the morning, better to make a reservation a week back and confirm it 24 hrs before the departure.
DEPART from rawalpindi can catch
no.24 train to quetta via lahore
dep 1110 day 1 arr 1630 day 2

get AC sleeper

get up early for baltit fort and ultar madow
stay onite maybe 2
head off early to catch gilgit bus and change to rawalpindi
see depart rawalpindi for details

get to shiraz.is possible to get a bus to bam/kenman then bus to shiraz

go to persepolis 50 km north.
look around city stay 2 nights?
bus to eshfahan via yazd...mat have to stay in yazd onite

TRANS-ASIA EXPRESS You can book the westbound Tehran to Istanbul train at Tehran station - you will need to show your passport. Alternatively, you can book the Tehran to Istanbul train through a number of Iranian travel agencys...train leaves thurs 1900 arr malatya[turkey] 1250 sat 43 hrs
get sleeper obviously CHECK ON WHAT DAYS THIS LEAVES maybe only thursdays 2015.... tues and thurdays in summer
also check about Tehran - Tabriz - Aleppo - Damascus train,,not sure if different train or not ,,think so

pullman buses for syria
adamea roman site..visit fort above town and markets