My lucky day
Do I read that correctly? Does it saying ‘hot spring’ on that road sign? I exit from the paved road towards a valley. Will it really be true? A hot bath? No, this can’t be true. Maybe just some hot…
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Unexpected generosity
After several days touring in the highlands of Qinghai-Tibet I arrived in the village Qumarleb. I walked into a restaurant to eat something. Of course the menu on the wall was unreadable. There were some pictures of the local yak…
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The wonderful Tibetan culture
“There are wolves, it is dangerous,” I read on a screen. “The police will not allow you to take this road,” this appears not much later on the same screen of a Chinese girl. Thorsten told that in the Lonely…
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Rotterdam to Singapore eps5 – Central Asia [VIDEO]
A new episode of Rotterdam to Singapore by bicycle. Enjoy an atmospheric video in the countries Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Please consider to make a small donation to my fundraising page for the World Fund for Wildlife. I do this…
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Cycling through the Taklamakan desert
A fierce headwind gave us the message. The Taklamakan desert would be no fun. The blowing sand, heavy trucks that passed us, the dryness and kilometers emptiness. We had no choice, we had to get through it. Thorsten had somehow…
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Are you journalists?
After a month backpacking with Lisa, my girlfriend, I departed from Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. I follow the northern border of Tibet to the city of Xining. In this blog I get back on the…
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Rotterdam to Singapore eps4 – Iran [VIDEO]
And there it happened. A guy in a pink blouse came to help me in the desert. He builded trust but after two hours went away with my phone. Everything fell apart. The device I used for publishing blogs, photos…
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Bikes and buffaloes in Yangshuo
“Hello, hello! Yangshuo, Yangshuo!!” We walk out of the Guilin Railway Station and get directly offered a lot of things. “Busse, busse! Tagessè, taggesè!” If you go to a place in China that is printed on a national currency bill,…
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Youl girlfliend don’t have plane
After a long train journey, I finally arrived in Chengdu. Lisa and I had agreed to meet each other on 5 August in a hostel. We couldn’t have any contact with each other because I had no phone (yet). It…
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