What are overland routes?

Overland routes are paths people and animals use to travel across land from one place to another.

Imagine you have a toy car, and you want to drive it from your bedroom to the living room, but there’s no road. You’d probably go over the carpet, around the couch, maybe even climb over the coffee table. That path you take is like an overland route, just on a bigger scale!

Overland routes are like big roads or trails that people and animals walk or ride along to get from one place to another, especially when they’re not going by water or in the sky. Think of them as the “walkways” of the world.

For example, camels use overland routes to travel across deserts, just like you might take a path through the park to go to your friend’s house. These routes help people and animals move from one town to another, or even from one country to another, all on land!

Sometimes these paths are simple trails in the forest, and sometimes they’re wide roads with lots of people walking and riding along them. Either way, they're just land connections helping things (and people!) get where they need to go!