Edinburgh
London
Paris
Munich
Budapest
Istanbul
Ankara
Erzurum
Kars
Batumi
Tbilisi
Baku
--- dashed line ferry across the Caspian Sea to Aqtau
Nukus
Khiva
Bukhara
Samarqand
Tashkent
Shymkent
Bishkek
Almaty
Horgos
Kashgar
Urumqi
Beijing
Ulanbaatar (this is just a single-line side trip to/from Beijing)
Beijing
Shanghai
Kunming
---- dashed line to Chiang Mai
Bangkok
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
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