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Tobi went for a bike ride
October 9, 2024
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December 24, 2024
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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Tobi went for a hike
October 7, 2024
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December 23, 2024
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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Tobi went for a bike ride
October 5, 2024
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December 23, 2024
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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Tobi went on an adventure
October 4, 2024
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December 10, 2024
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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Tobi went for a bike ride
September 30, 2024
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October 12, 2024
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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Tobi went for a bike ride
September 27, 2024
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October 12, 2024
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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Tobi went for a bike ride
September 26, 2024
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October 4, 2024
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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Tobi went for a bike ride
September 25, 2024
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October 4, 2024
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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Tobi went for a bike ride
September 24, 2024
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October 4, 2024
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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Tobi went for a bike ride
September 23, 2024
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October 3, 2024
The recording on my bike computer doesn't seem to be entirely true here, at least it felt a lot more!
A real adventure, in fact. At 7:30 sharp I set off towards the pass and it goes pretty well according to plan. At first you can even do a bit of cycling, but that's unnecessary after the first few easy
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Tobi went for a bike ride
September 22, 2024
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October 1, 2024
Less than 10km, I haven't managed that yet, but to be on the safe side I stay at 3300m above sea level at a campsite that later fills up with tourists riding horses (even though the day was so beautifully lonely). The white yak showed me the way, similar to the white rabbit from the Matrix, and I feel
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Tobi went for a bike ride
September 21, 2024
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September 30, 2024
Not exactly fast but steady, you might think, since I didn't get very far today either. At least: I wanted to sleep in a homestay, this is the last village before the pass.
As in the rest of Central Asia, everyone here plays volleyball, I get to play on the improvised field and feel a bit rusty.
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Tobi went for a bike ride
September 20, 2024
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September 30, 2024
Today I only manage to get as far as just beyond the reservoir, I really don't have any strength. This circular route adventure will be a really exciting story in this condition.
The road quickly becomes similar to the Pamirs, the coal truck traffic has left a real washboard here.
I quickly sit down to
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Tobi went for a bike ride
September 19, 2024
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September 30, 2024
We actually arrived in Osh believing we would regain our strength here, but in my opinion the food and drink in this city are more of a cause than a cure for my ailments.
After we said goodbye to Esme the day before, Nils also set off for Bishkek.
In the early afternoon I leave the Park Hostel, also known
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December 25, 2024
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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