ChinaJibenggang29°39’22” N 91°7’50” E
22 September 2018, China ⋅ ☁️ 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 sinceBaca lagi
ChinaJibenggang29°39’22” N 91°7’51” E
ChinaJibenggang29°39’21” N 91°7’51” E
24 September 2018, China ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We are starting for the first 60km now!
ChinaXoi29°21’14” N 90°44’7” E
24 September 2018, China ⋅ ⛅ 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.Baca lagi
ChinaGyangze28°54’46” N 89°36’9” E
27 September 2018, China ⋅ ⛅ 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 (andBaca lagi
ChinaXigazê29°15’24” N 88°53’37” E
29 September 2018, China ⋅ 🌙 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, animalBaca lagi
ChinaLaimalusu29°10’23” N 88°10’48” E
30 September 2018, China ⋅ ☀️ 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 getBaca lagi
PengembaraEither we crossed the road where there were no buildings or right next to the building. That were the official places.... Fun fact: the building was quite new. For what reason ever they didn't put a toilet in or at least lose to the house...
ChinaLaimalusu29°10’23” N 88°10’48” E
30 September 2018, China ⋅ 🌙 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 mayBaca lagi
ChinaBaiba28°38’28” N 87°10’43” E
2 Oktober 2018, China ⋅ 🌙 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 MountBaca lagi
ChinaQiecun28°34’45” N 87°4’48” E
3 Oktober 2018, China ⋅ ☀️ 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 theBaca lagi
