Peking to Paris — The Route

The journey that Garrick, Robert and The Ladybird are undertaking is not for the faint hearted. Departing September 10 from Peking, they take in the following places en-route…

• Great Wall of China
• Inner Mongolia
• Gobi Desert
• Outer Mongolia
• Ulaan Baatar
• Kazakhstan
• Tashkent
• Uzbekhistan
• Samarkand
• Turkmenistan
• Iran
• Tabriz
• Turkey
• Istanbul
• Greece
• Italy
• France

…and arrive at their destination of Paris by October 16.

You can view the route map on the official Peking to Paris website.

Peking to Paris — Driving the Impossible — Team #106

Garrick Staples (USA) and Robert McClements (UK) are driving a 1959 VW convertible that they have nicknamed ‘The Ladybird’, in the upcoming Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. Robert, who is Print Yorkshire’s Chief Executive, is raising money for The Printing Charity.

Picture:
Robert McClements (L), Garrick Staples (R) and ‘The Ladybird’

Invited by Garrick to be his co-driver and navigator, Robert is fulfilling his boyhood dream of taking part. Reading The Mad Motorists, the account of the 1907 challenge to take a horseless carriage from Peking to Paris grabbed his imagination as a schoolboy.

“We’re excited and nervous but conditions will be better than those in 1907 when there were no maps or petrol stations en route. We’ll be blogging our progress on this epic journey.”