dubai to london walk

hack88 hey guyz , can u guys help us find locations worth visiting for me and a friend , We are walking from dubai to amsterdam and then we fly to Uk,i need ideas and recommendations ,also advices from travellers, We are doing this for dubai, Any donations recieved would go for UNICEF i'm creating the website and will let u know as soon as its ready, Herez our trip planned so far, Walk to London Distance - Approx 8000kms dubai abudhabi ash sharqiyah (KSA) kuwait city (kuwait) baghdad(iraq) halab(syria) gaziantep(turkey) adana(turkey) ankara(turkey) istanbul(turkey) sofiya(bulgaria) bucuresti(romania) budapest(hungary) austria munich (germany) luxembourg paris(france) brussels(belgium) amsterdam(netherlands) Sail to london, Walk on the ship my friend disagrees that we go from Northern Emirates to Oman, yemen, then north to Saudi Arabia, then to the city of Aqaba, west to EGYPT, Cyprus, Then Turkey and rest is same until Amsterdam. arniegang bloody hells bells man, this deserves being "stickied" for a month. Fair play to you and respect. Post details for sponsorship contributions would you please. PS -When you arrive in Amsterdam, walk straight to a Coffee Shop and have a few spliff's on us will ya. KeithL You're gonna be very tired when you reach london !! good cause btw.. have you found sponsors yet? hack88 hey guyz..thnkz for replying.. we'll start accepting donations after the website is done, we have not found sponsors yet,but are expecting some, bsorc We are not the first ones to travel so long I mean Ibn Battuta more than we are about or then we ever will. No sponsors yet because we still have issues to consider. If you guys know somebody please let us hack.88 and me bsorc know about it. Most common reactions we've had was "You are crazy" hack88 we've added Beirut and Damascus in our trip also :) It will take us around 8 months, 9-10 hr walk per day, 5kms per hour, a walk of around 10000 Kms , 50kms per day 200 days - 10000kms bsorc This is the First phase of our journey.
bsorc This is phase 2
craigindubai Why anyone would want to go to London let alone walk there is beyond me... Flying Dutchman RESPECT! And you are not even taking the shortest route. Tell me when you are in Holland, we will take good care of you.

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nick_25 Craig London is a superb city, a very busy city but a great city none the less. What don't you like about London? Where are you from out of interest - I assume somewhere in the north of England judging by your post? reviewer Give us a shout here in DF whenever the site is up...Good Luck to both of you,.,, :wave: craigindubai

• nick_25 wrote:
  Craig
  London is a superb city, a very busy city but a great city none the less. What don't you like about London?
  Where are you from out of interest - I assume somewhere in the north of England judging by your post?

London's fine... It's just the English that are annoying.... scarlet Hack you may wanna read a book called "they saddle dogs here" about a guy and his friend who drove from Abu Dhabi to London and the things they encountered on the way. Not as hard as you walking - but certainly some interesting events. I wrote Good luck lads. Keep us posted. Shouldn't this thread be in the Travel Forum? Specially since just in the last 2 days the suggestion that there were too many forums was met with a few posts inidicating that the problem might be posts in the wrong forum (posted by a mod I believe). arniegang yes it should but as it is for charity i have decided to keep it in General, and travel is possibly the least visited forum here and the newest to be added at the request of a few regulars. I wrote

• arniegang wrote:
  yes it should but as it is for charity i have decided to keep it in General, and travel is possibly the least visited forum here and the newest to be added at the request of a few regulars.

Seems a bit contradictory. The essence is travel and people travel for different reasons and for different purposes.
by the way, I can't say whether or not Travel is the least visited. But I note you were quoting figures before (in the too many forums thread just below). So I did the same and it turns out that Travel forum has more posts than the following forums:
1. Suggestion forum
2. Arabic forum
3. Dubai Guide forum
4. for Sale forum
5. Black list forum
6. Will Buy forum
Strange then. hack88

• scarlet wrote:
  Hack you may wanna read a book called "they saddle dogs here" about a guy and his friend who drove from Abu Dhabi to London and the things they encountered on the way. Not as hard as you walking - but certainly some interesting events.

hey...wher can i get the book from in dubai, St.Lucifer Props...!!! n Good luck bros.. scarlet

• hack88 wrote:
  
  • scarlet wrote:
    Hack you may wanna read a book called "they saddle dogs here" about a guy and his friend who drove from Abu Dhabi to London and the things they encountered on the way. Not as hard as you walking - but certainly some interesting events.
  
  hey...wher can i get the book from in dubai,

Magrudys, or the bookshops attached to spinneys. Author is Greg Hunt KeithL Hack, I was just wondering as to what is the route you've planned and if the entire walk will be on roads? hack88

• KeithL wrote:
  Hack, I was just wondering as to what is the route you've planned and if the entire walk will be on roads?

ther'll b trekking also bsorc

• KeithL wrote:
  Hack, I was just wondering as to what is the route you've planned and if the entire walk will be on roads?

Well Keithl, We will be following a road to the City of Sur in Oman, After that we have trek to the mountains of oman until we reach Salalah, but there is still a disgreement whether we should go to Salalah due to extreme terrain surrounding the region.
We plan to cross the desert towards Yemen then reach the City of Hajarain(two rocks city), towards San'aa and north crossing Saudi Arabia. ahamed @hack88 wat about your etisalat job? they givin ya such a long vacation ? lol .. :lol: bsorc Actually hack and I both work in etisalat, i dont know about hack but i dont mind quitting. This thought of this journey is what keeps me happy at work. bsorc Guys we have come up with the temporary website while hack88 is working on the real one. www.uaejourney.co.nr rudeboy lol the last time i went for a walk was at the mall of emirates. walked for like 20 minutes and was panting like a dog. then walked for like 15 minutes trying to figure out where my car was parked and was blooody knackered after 35 minutes of walking. anyways good luck with your trip if it does go ahead as planned. i see you are not going towards iraq :D. i guess u guys should start resting now go into hibernation probably and come out of your caves after a month or so and go for the long walk. heheh good luck bsorc

• rudeboy wrote:
  lol the last time i went for a walk was at the mall of emirates. walked for like 20 minutes and was panting like a dog. then walked for like 15 minutes trying to figure out where my car was parked and was blooody knackered after 35 minutes of walking.
  anyways good luck with your trip if it does go ahead as planned. i see you are not going towards iraq :D.
  i guess u guys should start resting now go into hibernation probably and come out of your caves after a month or so and go for the long walk. heheh
  good luck

Thanks for the support rudeboy, I've been walking alot since i was 13. At one time i walked all the way from Sahara Mall to the border of ajman but this is obviously different :roll:
No time for hibernation, we want to start ina specific time to avoid cross the parts of the Empty Quarter during summer.
We'd be cooked. rudeboy

• bsorc wrote:
  
  • rudeboy wrote:
    lol the last time i went for a walk was at the mall of emirates. walked for like 20 minutes and was panting like a dog. then walked for like 15 minutes trying to figure out where my car was parked and was blooody knackered after 35 minutes of walking.
    anyways good luck with your trip if it does go ahead as planned. i see you are not going towards iraq :D.
    i guess u guys should start resting now go into hibernation probably and come out of your caves after a month or so and go for the long walk. heheh
    good luck
  
  Thanks for the support rudeboy, I've been walking alot since i was 13. At one time i walked all the way from Sahara Mall to the border of ajman but this is obviously different :roll:
  No time for hibernation, we want to start ina specific time to avoid cross the parts of the Empty Quarter during summer.
  We'd be cooked.

sounds like u been walking alot. as i see it lifes a great walk itself. god knows how long we have walked all our life. so y u wanna go for another walk that too from dubai to london :S.
i really think u should go into hibernation. eat as much as you can drink as much as you can and sleep as much as you can. and then go for the walk and you will be sorted :D.
anyways good luck. and remember to take the sun creame with you cos you will get cooked anyways walking in the sun. bsorc You are right about being cooked, i will think about that.
I will try to avoid deserts as much as possible.
We have a problem,
We have planned the exact route, the items to carry, time, distance etc.
but we are still having problems with sponsorship . Any suggestions you guys provide will be helpful. ZUID AFRIKA london is cold so are its people to much law and order life is robotic ZUID AFRIKA london is cold so are its people to much law and order life is robotic MC And it's rubbing off on you. :lol: gtmash Why would anyone want to walk through Saudi Arabia and Yemen? Outside the major cities, those places are hellholes. ^ian^ I once though about doing a walk from Brisbane to Sydney. I barely got into the planning stages when the response of interest overwhelmed me. In the end, I decided not to do it. bsorc here it is hopefully i will get sponsorship soon :)... losttheplot best of luck mates, it sounds really interesting!