At the time of meeting two Tibetan (!) biketourers, I didn't know that they would be the last cyclists on way for a long time. The excitement was mutual despite the…
The challenge of riding the Taklamakan wasn't a physical (biketouring rarely is), but a mental one. Weeks of nearly unchanged scenery on a perfect new road caused my motivation to decline…
One evening motorbike of fully covered man come to my side while riding. They seemed to be curious of this strange tall person riding a bicycle against a sandy storm in…
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Back five weeks and to the beginning of China.
Many long distance cyclists I know have taken a train across the Western China, as obtaining a three month visa on the road…
Just a quick real time update from China. During the past three weeks I cycled 2500km across the Taklamakan desert (the second biggest sands desert in the world) and a 3000m…
Ann fells on her bicycle on a rocky trail at 4200m around 1.30pm near Lake Turumtaikul. I'm riding a few hundred meters behind her and see her lying on the ground…
1 time lost
3 times not finishing the plate
10 days sick
15 punctures
20 tiny fishes
23 countries
100 second thoughts
150 Snickers
300 nights in a tent
500 hours of Podcasts
1000 geography lessons
19 000 kilometers
1 000 000…
After we recovered from the food poisoning number X if the Stans a few days in a lovely academic city of Khorog, we finally set off towards the Pamir plateau. We…
The road which had been in my dreams for somewhat for 5 years, the corridor across the Western Himalayas: the Pamir Highway. I was finally there in the cross road a…