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biketouring

  • CHINA

    Carless highway

    Roads like these, favorable winds and snowless conditions enabled me to keep a pace of 100km a day, day after day on the Tibetan plateau. It was surreal to ride in…

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  • CHINA

    Frozen desert

    It took a while to learn that everything freezes up there, and stays frozen solid. It was a chock not able carry bread (my basic source of energy on the road!)…

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  • CHINA

    Licking ice

    All the water for the first 5 days days was frozen solid on the plateau. Even the bigger rivers had a solid thick ice cover. Yaks and deer licked ice…

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  • CHINA

    Finally in the thin air

    After doing a massive 120km day from 3700m over the 4768m Kunlun Pass I was finally on the high Tibetan Plateau and off the busy Tibet-Qinghai Highway. The following days there…

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  • CHINA

    ‘You did not sleep inside?’

    Finding a scenic camp spot could be hard in the dark. One night I ended up sleeping on a back balcony of a Taoist Temple at 3700m. I felt a bit…

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  • CHINA

    Toward Tibet

    Reaching snow at 3600m on the way to 4800m Kunlun Pass, one of the northern gateways to the Tibetan Plateau. #biketouring #China #Qinghai #November2015…

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  • CHINA

    1/3 up a 100km climb

    A morning on a 100km climb up to the Tibetan Plateau along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. #biketouring #China #Qinghai #November2015 #3300m…

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  • CHINA

    Mission invisibility

    There are many gas stations in China, but to reach this by bicycle is special. The 'short cut' route from Golmud toward South East Asia follows the Qinghai-Tibet Highway the first…

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