Slowly getting nervous...
2018年9月7日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Die letzte Trainingsfahrt
2018年9月10日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Den letzten Sonntag vor der Reise haben wir für unsere letzte Trainingsrunde genutzt. Wir haben uns eine ganz besondere Tour bis zum Schluss aufgehoben: Den kompletten Mauerradweg an einem Tag. Esもっと詳しく
Almost ready
2018年9月15日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Packing. Almost set. But we have the feeling there is something very black, very heavy, very hairy we should not take to China...
Bikes everywhere
2018年9月17日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Recently a lot of people in Berlin were complaining about the amount of shared bikes in Berlin. Well, they definitely have never been to Beijing 🚴🏻♀️😁
Hutong life
2018年9月17日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Hutongs are definitely a lot different from
what I expected. While most of them were torn down in recent years to make space for new highrise condos, they apparently experience a hip revival. Someもっと詳しく
E-Mobility in Beijing
2018年9月18日, 中国 ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
While Germany is talking about e-mobility China is doing it. With fascinating vehicles. But they are everywhere and make the city super quiet, especially off the main streets. Obviously even ducks areもっと詳しく
The first buddhist monastery
2018年9月20日, 中国 ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
We arrived in the Himalaya and that means that we visited our first buddhist monastery, the Kumbum monastery in Huangzhung. The temple is the birthplace of Tsongkhapa, the founder of Gelug buddhismもっと詳しく
Wannabe Rockstar friendly
2018年9月20日, 中国 ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Have you ever been in the mood of destroying a hotel room but were afraid of the costs? Go to China. They have a pricelist for each and every item in the room, so you can party according to yourもっと詳しく
Dancing in the streets
2018年9月20日, 中国 ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
No need for a dance floor in China. Just go to the nearest park, set up your boom box, turn the volume to max and start dancing. No matter if you are into Chinese pop music, traditional songs orもっと詳しく
Arriving in Lhasa
2018年9月21日, 中国 ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
So, we finally made it to Lhasa.
After a 24 hrs train ride across 5000 m high passes and permafrost ground.
No altitude sickness so far, and we immediately got some chinese medicine to keep it thatもっと詳しく
Visiting Potala palace
2018年9月22日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
It is without doubt one of the most impressive buildings in the world: The Dalai Lama's palace in Lhasa. Being Tibet's palace and administrative building since the 17th century it's now empty sinceもっと詳しく
Debates
2018年9月23日, 中国 ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
According to buddhist belief in Tibet ignorance is one of the greatest sins (the others are greed and jealousy).
Monks have to study all their life. More importantly they have to understand... Soもっと詳しく
Getting serious now....
2018年9月24日, 中国 ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We are starting for the first 60km now!
Day 1: Easy going
2018年9月24日, 中国 ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
An easy first day of biking. Flat, only 100m height on 65km. Very good road. Quite a lot of traffic, but super relaxed. Everybody is very tolerant with us, passing cars are keeping a lot of distance.もっと詳しく
Changes in scenery
2018年9月27日, 中国 ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Yesterday we passed one of the highest glaciers in the world. After a long uphill ride to 5040 m, the glacier suddenly appeared before us reaching up to over 7100 m. It was simply breathtaking (andもっと詳しく
Visiting a chinese supermarket
2018年9月29日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
It's always interesting visiting a supermarket in another country. Here you can find: Weird vine bottles, Schnaps from the barrel (in different qualities), more soy sauce than you can imagine, animalもっと詳しく
Staying on the tibetan countryside
2018年9月30日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We found a hotel for the night. It‘s clean and it has Wifi. And it has an outstanding interior. And a donkey!
Only drawback: It doesn‘t have a toilet😯. But on this trip we anyway have to getもっと詳しく
Meet the team
2018年9月30日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
You might have guessed so: We are not alone on the road. It's actually quite a big team. Four people doing the tour, our German guide, a tibetian guide and two drivers. A van and a truck.
That mayもっと詳しく
A challenging but rewarding day
2018年10月2日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 2 °C
Today was our hardest trip so far.
First a long uphill ride to 5200 m.
And then a downhill ride that felt like going uphill again because of the really strong headwind.
But....
We saw the Mountもっと詳しく
Going to mount Everest base camp
2018年10月3日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 3 °C
Today we don't cycle but go to the mount Everest base camp by bus. It would be possible to cycle, but it already takes 4 hours by car. All in all it would probably take 3 days to go up, see theもっと詳しく
Drinking tea at mount Everest
2018年10月3日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 1 °C
We arrived at the first (tourist) camp. Now it's tea and noodle soup time. And dry meet time for one of our guides.
We also visited the highest post office in the world. So if you get a card from us,もっと詳しく
At mount Everest
2018年10月3日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 0 °C
This is as close you can get. Amazing views, though you are not allowed to go closer or to the mountaineers base camp.
And right next to the camp a very old monastery. And the monastery's toilet isもっと詳しく
Staying in a tibetian village
2018年10月4日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 0 °C
Coming back from the mountain we had accommodation in a small village. We stayed with a tibetian family in a traditional house. On the ground floor a living room, the only room in the house withもっと詳しく
Police and thiefs
2018年10月4日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
Tibet has broken vehicles on the road, with police signs. Maybe a reminder that police exists?
Crossing the border
2018年10月7日, ネパール ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Crossing the border to Nepal was really a show. The contrast between the two countries could not be more obvious. A big customs building, which was meant to impress in China vs. a shed in Nepal. Evenもっと詳しく












































































































