ABOUT

Peter Searle is a graduate of the Australian National University (BA (Hons) 1977; LL.B (Hons) 1980) and Monash University (LL.M), tour guide and barrister.

The ANU is Australia’s national and international University, and nurtured Peter's travel bug to try to follow the footsteps of the early overlanders and his heroes,  Alexander the Great and Marco Polo.

 In 1980 Peter travelled to London and started work with Top Deck Travel as courier/tour guide on the London to Kathmandu/Sydney overland departing London on 12 June, 1980 (Top Deck Asian Overland brochure).

Gary Hayes and Peter drove a Top Deck bus, Knackers, on the eastbound overland from London to Kathmandu, departing 12 June, 1980, and arrived in Kathmandu on 28 August, 1980. 

On Day 1 of the Kathmandu to London westbound overland at Nagarkot, Nepal (September 18, 1980), looking through the clouds, fog and mist towards the direction of Mount Everest, Corrie and Peter resolved to cross the closed border from Tibet into Nepal as soon as the Chinese border opened. As it turned out, the border opened in 1985,  and they travelled through China and crossed the Himalayas from Tibet into Nepal in 1985.

These travel guide notes and itinerary recreate/consolidate their several overland trips into one Asian Overland itinerary from  Botany Bay to London, including Australia, South East Asia and China, across the Himalayas from Lhasa, Tibet to Kathmandu and London.

These notes summarise Peter's tour guide daily spiel of the country, plants, animals, people, and their history and customs. They could help you on a self drive tour, but you should take your time and enjoy the wonderful countries, plants, animals, people and history in your area.

© This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process, nor may any other exclusive right be exercised, without the permission of Peter Searle, peter@portseavillageresort.com; 1980-2013.