Re: Are You Ready?

Posted by kit carr on Oct 25, 2014; 7:06am
URL: http://sundownersadventures.385.s1.nabble.com/Are-You-Ready-tp5707047p5707050.html

I've has a look thorough Marion's pictures.

It looks like a Troika to me, and probably was an early 1975 departure, I guess April or May. Shots of Bucharest, Odesssa, Kiev, and Berlin make that quite clear.

Sundowners were doing around 20 overlands a year then, so I guess the tour number to be between TK95 and TK105

The trip left from thr Blue Star by local bus, and picked up the Sundowners bus in Birganj, and went from there to Varanasi.

Chalker, in AL125 in 1976) was the first 11m coach up the Raj Path from Birganj, and there after all tours drove to Kathmandu via Pokhara. The Rajpath had too many deep "scallops" in the road for an 11m coach, and the route from Lumbini to Pokhara was more driveable.

I don't recognise any people from her photos, so can't add anything to the elusive "passenger courier" situation.

kit