Stops en route to visit Crusader castles in Karak and Shobak , the natural springs and olive groves of Tafileh, and on to the hidden pink city of Petra , UNESCO Heritage site.

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We had decided to embark in Irkutsk, where the also-famous Trans-Siberian Railroad stops en route from Moscow to Vladivostok, connecting to the Trans-Mongolian that runs south toward Ulaanbaatar.

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Ms Dekker will make more than 20 stops along her route, and has more than two years to complete the trip in order to break the existing record.

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If you have a particular route in mind, you can plug in its name as a starting point, searching for worthwhile stops along the way.

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