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Rotterdam to Singapore eps6 – China [VIDEO]

November 6, 2015

And finally! After months of pedalling through China, I managed to put it all together in a video. I spend at least five days of editing and think it’s by far the best video! From the most western part of…

Closing chapter China, reaching the tropics of South East Asia [PHOTOS]

October 30, 2015

From desert to vast steppes, snowy peaks, big lakes, rivers, waterfalls, highlands and large green forests. China has it all. I have made an attempt to cycle in two months through this country. I have failed incredible. Still, even though…

Arrested

October 23, 2015

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.…

My lucky day

October 15, 2015

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…

Unexpected generosity

October 6, 2015

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…

The wonderful Tibetan culture

September 29, 2015

“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…

Cycling through the Taklamakan desert

September 18, 2015

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…

Are you journalists?

September 9, 2015

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…

Bikes and buffaloes in Yangshuo

August 29, 2015

“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,…

Youl girlfliend don’t have plane

August 20, 2015

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…

Rotterdam to Singapore eps6 – China [VIDEO]

Closing chapter China, reaching the tropics of South East Asia [PHOTOS]

Arrested

My lucky day

Unexpected generosity

The wonderful Tibetan culture

Cycling through the Taklamakan desert

Are you journalists?

Bikes and buffaloes in Yangshuo

Youl girlfliend don’t have plane

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