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Touareg 360° experience: one of the last big adventures begins

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• 40-week world tour starts on 18 July 2004 in Alaska with five Touaregs

• Anyone who's interested can join a leg of the world tour for a few weeks
   

  Wolfsburg - On 18 July five Volkswagen Touareg will leave Alaska on a trip covering all five continents. In front of them lie thousands of kilometres of adventure. The Touareg 360° experience is unusual as on board the offroader are people like you and me - booked in as temporary travellers. Anyone who would like to fulfil the dream of a once-in-a-lifetime travel experience can take part. However, you must act quickly as spaces are limited and are already partly booked up.

Each guest team (each with six people) will go on one leg of the world tour. The journey lasts two to four weeks, depending on the continent, and costs from 3 980 to 6 750 euros for boundless freedom. The Touareg 360° experience will finish in Wolfsburg on 29 October 2005.

The 14 legs of the world tour are as varied as the countries of the world. After starting in Alaska, the tour sets out on its first leg through the Rocky Mountains. This is followed by a trip through southwest America to Baja California and then it's further south. The third stage in the Touareg's log book is the Transamazonica in South America and then on to the Andes and the Atacama Desert. The next group will then tour Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

The Touareg 360° experience now changes continent and moves across to Australia, where the trek continues from Sydney to the outback and then through west Australia. The first leg in Asia drives through China and Mongolia, on to the legendary Silk Road and the Himalayas, and then India. The caravan will reach Central Africa in August 2005. The next destinations are the Okavango Delta and the Kalahari Desert. Immediately after, we hope to travel from Nile to Niger, depending on the security situation in this region. The route from Dakar to Wolfsburg marks the finale of the world tour.

If you would like to discover the joys of travel and one of the last big adventures, ring the free hotline on 0800-8938368 (0800/VWEVENT). The Volkswagen Touareg are refueled and ready. If you don't feel so adventurous, you can also receive information on this number on other travel experiences with the Phaeton and Touareg.

 (March 30, 2004)