China

Arrested

Arrested

I cycle up a mountain. It’s a beautiful setting here. A green misty mountainous area goes past me. Local farmers are busy to harvest. Rice and corn is what grows in the fields here. It is dried along the road.…
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My lucky day

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

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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Are you journalists?

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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Bikes and buffaloes in Yangshuo

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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