FACTBOX: The Olympic flame's planned route to Beijing

(Reuters) - Human rights protesters tried to disrupt the Olympic torch-lighting ceremony in Greece this week, as the flame began its five month journey to Beijing's August Games.

Exiled Tibetans have pledged to demonstrate against China's security crackdown in the region, but Olympics organizers say there are no plans to change the torch's route to Tibet, which it is scheduled to visit twice.

After the flame arrives in Beijing on March 31, a second torch will be lit from it and taken to Tibet in May, where Chinese climbers will try to take it to the top of Mount Everest.

Here is a list of planned stops for the flame's 85,000 mile (137,000 kilometer) route across five continents to the Games.

* March 24-30: Olympic torch lit in Olympia, Greece, site of ancient Olympics. Travels across Greece; heads to China.

* March 31: Flame arrives in Beijing; heads to central Asia: Almaty, Kazakhstan, (April 1, 2), Istanbul, Turkey, (April 3).

* April 5: Crosses Europe from St Petersburg, Russia, (April 5), to London (April 6) and Paris (April 7).

* April 9: San Francisco; then from North to South America and across to Africa: Buenos Aires, Argentina (April 11), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (April 13), Muscat, Oman, (April 14).

* April 16: Asia leg kicks off in Islamabad, Pakistan (April 16), New Delhi, India (April 17), Bangkok, Thailand (April 19), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (April 21), Jakarta, Indonesia (April 22).

* April 24: Canberra, Australia, then north to Nagano, Japan (April 26), Seoul, South Korea (April 27), Pyongyang, North Korea (April 28), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (April 29).

* May 2: Domestic leg starts in Hong Kong, then Macau (May 3), then flame travels through more than 65 cities in China starting in southern Hainan, (May 4-6).

* May 7-10: Guangdong Province. Then up the east coast through Fujian (May 11-13), Jiangxi, (May 14-16), Zhejiang (May 17-19), Shanghai (May 20-21), and Jiangsu (May 22-24).

* May 26-28: Inland to Anhui, then south again via Hubei (May 29-31), Hunan (June 1-3) and Guangxi (June 4-6).

* June 7-9: Southwestern Yunnan, then north again to Guizhou (June 10-12), Chongqing (June 13-14), and Sichuan (June 15-18) before heading west to Tibet and provinces with large Tibetan populations.

* June 19-21: Tibet; flame travels to Shannan Diqu and Lhasa. North to Qinghai Province (June 22-24), Xinjiang (June 25-27), and Gansu (June 28-30) before heading inland.

* July 2-4: Ningxia and central northern provinces Shaanxi (July 5-7), Shanxi (July 8-10), Inner Mongolia (July 11-13). North to Heilongjiang in China's far northeast corner, (July 14-16) and Jilin (July 17-19).