Itinerary 2012 Simply Classics Rally
Day |
Date |
Day
|
Route |
Kms |
Notes |
| Friday | 25th May |
Depart Auckland - direct to Shanghai 11.15pm flight | |||
26th May |
1 |
Arrive Shanghai | Meet 'n' Greet | ||
27th May |
2 |
Up lift vehicles/licence etc | 50 |
Complete formalities | |
| Monday | 28th May |
3 |
Shanghai | 0 |
Optional city/Expo centre tours |
29th May |
4 |
Shanghai | 0 |
Free day | |
30th May |
5 |
Shanghai - Hefei | 300 |
DEPART SHANGHAI | |
31st May |
6 |
Hefei - Nanyang | 420 |
||
1st June |
7 |
Nanyang - Xi'an | 390 |
||
2nd June |
8 |
Xi'an | 0 |
Terracotta Warriors Day | |
3rd June |
9 |
Xi'an - Taiyuan | 550 |
||
| Monday | 4th June |
10 |
Taiyuan - Jining (Datong) | 440 |
|
5th June |
11 |
Jining - Erenhot | 342 |
||
6th June |
12 |
Erenhot - Zqminuud (Mongolia) | 10 |
Via the China/Mongolia border | |
7th June |
13 |
Zqminuud - Sainshand | 220 |
In the Gobi | |
8th June |
14 |
Sainshand - Ulaanbaatar | 300 |
Arrival late in Ulanbaatar | |
9th June |
15 |
Ulaanbaatar | 0 |
(Coach) half day sightseeing | |
10th June |
16 |
Ulaanbaatar | 0 |
(Drive) Terelj National Park | |
| Monday | 11th June |
17 |
Ulaanbaatar | 0 |
Rest/maintenance day |
12th June |
18 |
Ulaanbaatar - Sukhbaatar | 334 |
||
13th June |
19 |
Sukhbaatar - Ulan-Ude | 261 |
Via the Russian border/Altanbulag | |
14th June |
20 |
Ulan-Ude - Irkutsk | 465 |
Passing Lake Baikal | |
15th June |
21 |
Irkutsk | 0 |
Layover day | |
16th June |
22 |
Irkutsk - Tulun | 408 |
||
17th June |
23 |
Tulun - Krasnoyarsk | 687 |
||
| Monday | 18th June |
24 |
Krasnoyarsk | 0 |
Layover day |
19th june |
25 |
Kraynoyarsk - Novosirbirsk | 857 |
||
20th June |
26 |
Novosirbirsk | 0 |
Layover day | |
21st June |
27 |
Novosirbisk - Omsk | 673 |
||
22nd June |
28 |
Omsk - Ishim | 350 |
||
23rd June |
29 |
Ishim - Tyumen | 300 |
||
24th June |
30 |
Tyumen - Yekaterinberg | 236 |
||
| Monday | 25th June |
31 |
Yekaterinberg | 0 |
City tour |
26th June |
32 |
Yekaterinberg | 0 |
Layover day | |
27th June |
33 |
Yekaterinberg - Perm | 390 |
2hr time change | |
28th June |
34 |
Perm - Kazan | 714 |
||
29th June |
35 |
Kazan - Nitzy Novgorod | 417 |
||
30th June |
36 |
Nizhny Novgorod - Moscow | 422 |
||
1st July |
37 |
Moscow | 0 |
Optional city tours | |
| Monday | 2nd July |
38 |
Moscow | 0 |
Layover day |
3rd July |
39 |
Moscow - Novgorod | 580 |
Photos at St Basil's Cathedral | |
4th July |
40 |
Novgorod - St Petersburg | 201 |
||
5th July |
41 |
St Petersburg | 0 |
||
6th July |
42 |
St Petersburg - Tallin | 372 |
Border crossing | |
7th July |
43 |
Tallinn | 0 |
Optional day tour to Helsinki | |
8th July |
44 |
Tallinn - Riga | 312 |
||
| Monday | 9th July |
45 |
Riga - Vilnius | 295 |
|
10th July |
46 |
Vilnius - Warsaw | 495 |
||
11th July |
47 |
Warsaw | 0 |
Optional afternoon city tour | |
12th July |
48 |
Warsaw - Krakow | 401 |
||
13th July |
49 |
Krakow - Prague | 595 |
||
14th July |
50 |
Prague | 0 |
Optional walking tour of the city | |
15th July |
51 |
Prague - Stuttgart | 390 |
||
| Monday | 16th July |
52 |
Stuttgart | 50 |
Mercedes-Benz & Porsche Museums |
17th July |
53 |
Stuttgart - Nurburgring | 320 |
||
18th July |
54 |
Nurburgring - Calais -Dover | 480 |
||
19th July |
55 |
Dover - Beaulieu | 230 |
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20th July |
56 |
Beaulieu - London | 220 |
Beaulieu Motor Museum | |
21st July |
57 |
London | 0 |
DEPART LONDON |