After 8 days of cycling from Golmud, 700km and nine over 4500m high passes I reached Yushu at 3700m. It was the first major Tibetan city I've seen in my life…
This is one of the amazing campsites I found in moonlight on the Tibetan plateau. In the morning I found a piece of a prayer stone right next to my tent!…
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…
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!)…
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…
Reaching snow at 3600m on the way to 4800m Kunlun Pass, one of the northern gateways to the Tibetan Plateau. #biketouring #China #Qinghai #November2015…