I plan to get there from Seoul, Korea, via Yokota AB, Japan

From Ulaanbataar I will fly to Almaty

From Dushanbe there are three flights a week to Kabul

For in-country travel details, see map below

Because of the security situation in Kunduz, Afghanistan, I will be flying from Dunshanbe to Kabul. Once there I will see what the situation is at that time. My plans were to see Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, and Panjshir, but insurgent presence may make that too risky. I will stay in the north of that country, since the south and south-east is a battlefield much of the time. I want to go now, before the NATO troops depart and the country decends once more into widespread ethnic/tribal and religious unrest and violence. Neither Pakistan nor India want a strong and stable Afghanistan aligned with the other. Red line indicates a road trips; Green arrows, flights between Afghan cities.

By train from Istanbul toSelcuk (Ephesus) then to Adana and finally to Gaziantep. Then bus and car to Göbekli Tepe in SE Turkey, near Urfa and Syria.

Time to relax, at last, back in Euroland, at some of the newest vacation destinations along the Adriatic coast

Japan

Adriatic Coast - various Balkan countries, maybe a quick sidetrip to Italy

Germany - UK

Flying into Slovenia, I plan to travel south through Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, then to the coast to Albania, and up the coastal countries, back to Lubliana, Slovenia, and from there to Germany.

Once in Macedonia, I will try to make a short sidetrip to the birthplace of Alexander the Great, closing much of that loop, in Greece. The place is called Pella and just west of Thessaloniki. Everything on this map was once part of Macedonia when Aleaxander's father, Philip II conquered all of the surrounding lands. A second day trip goes to Veroia and the nearby Vergina , one of the highlights of this journey, the tomb of Philip II.