КитайJibenggang29°39’22” N 91°7’50” E
22 сентября 2018 г., Китай ⋅ ☁️ 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 sinceЧитать далее
КитайJibenggang29°39’22” N 91°7’51” E
23 сентября 2018 г., Китай ⋅ ⛅ 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... SoЧитать далее
КитайJibenggang29°39’21” N 91°7’51” E
24 сентября 2018 г., Китай ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We are starting for the first 60km now!
КитайXoi29°21’14” N 90°44’7” E
24 сентября 2018 г., Китай ⋅ ⛅ 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.Читать далее
КитайGyangze28°54’46” N 89°36’9” E
27 сентября 2018 г., Китай ⋅ ⛅ 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 (andЧитать далее
КитайXigazê29°15’24” N 88°53’37” E
29 сентября 2018 г., Китай ⋅ 🌙 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, animalЧитать далее
КитайLaimalusu29°10’23” N 88°10’48” E
30 сентября 2018 г., Китай ⋅ ☀️ 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 getЧитать далее
ПутешественникEither 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...
КитайLaimalusu29°10’23” N 88°10’48” E
30 сентября 2018 г., Китай ⋅ 🌙 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 mayЧитать далее
КитайBaiba28°38’28” N 87°10’43” E
2 октября 2018 г., Китай ⋅ 🌙 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 MountЧитать далее
КитайQiecun28°34’45” N 87°4’48” E
3 октября 2018 г., Китай ⋅ ☀️ 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 theЧитать далее
