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631:54 h
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The local Chinese population is rather fond of the Meiningen, which could also be due to their successors.
After the German brewers, who started the Tsingtao brewery here on the Shandong Peninsula, it was the Japanese Empire that secured control of the region and cemented the memory of the Germans as
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From the hostel there is a path through quite lush vegetation. For a moment I think I'm lost, but the perfect map from my host keeps me on the path.
The view of and from the wall is really moving, especially with the dimensions in mind. I drove around 11,000 km from Innsbruck to China, which is almost
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On calibrated bike paths, I cycle through the checkerboard of this ancient satellite town to my hostel near the "alley house district". Since I planned my visit to China exactly during the golden week, the city is packed.
First I visit the Temple of Heaven, the place where people thanked their superiors
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How do you start writing again after two months of abstinence? The best way is to get on a train that is traveling a long distance. I did that a few days ago, and I am still sitting on the train and am confronting my own explanation.
With a delay of a few days in the local app, I landed in Korea around
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Kashgar, one of the many cities in Xinjiang where Uighurs make up the majority of the population, offers a great mix of Central Asian old town architecture, mixed cuisine and communist skyscrapers all in one.
The food in particular offers my vegetarian soul a welcome refreshment after the experience in
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For reasons (I wanted to surprise Sang Kil in Korea and my cell phone is a bit dead) there is once again a significant delay in the Komoot routes.
The way to Kashgar is, as expected, peppered with all kinds of police checks. Luckily I can persuade the police to let me drive the remote road, my last real
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There's not much to tell here. We are allowed through with our bikes an hour before the border opens and then we go through the famous Chinese security apparatus.
For the first time on the entire trip, our luggage is thoroughly inspected, everything is opened and examined, only my Leatherman is too well
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I had already hiked to the base camp the evening before, so I used the time for coffee and cake, for breakfast of course. The bush telegraph predicts bad weather for the next day, in the sense of the impending onset of winter, and so I consider whether I should cross the Irkeshtam Pass today.
The decision
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Ultimately, it was a good decision to set up the tent here, as I would not have been able to reach the next proper accommodation in daylight the day before. There are a few river crossings along the rest of the valley, but you can finally ride a bike again.
As soon as you are out of the valley, the grassland
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Or was there ever one? I wanted to talk to an old friend again, to see each other in the face after seven years, face to face.
First of all, I talk to an East German lady, a very friendly and cosmopolitan person in her 50s, with whom I spend almost the entire time on the boat, if you exclude the 300 or
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