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qinghai

  • CHINA

    Tibetan Karaoke

    After 8 days of cycling from Golmud, 700km and nine over 4500m high passes I reached Yushu at 3700m. It was the first major Tibetan city I've seen in my life…

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    By a prayer stone

    This is one of the amazing campsites I found in moonlight on the Tibetan plateau. In the morning I found a piece of a prayer stone right next to my tent!…

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  • CHINA

    Tail wind!

    Feeling good on a top of the second 4600m pass of the day. #tailwindsforever #biketouring #China #Qinghai #November2015…

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  • CHINA

    Carless highway

    Roads like these, favorable winds and snowless conditions enabled me to keep a pace of 100km a day, day after day on the Tibetan plateau. It was surreal to ride in…

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    Frozen desert

    It took a while to learn that everything freezes up there, and stays frozen solid. It was a chock not able carry bread (my basic source of energy on the road!)…

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    Licking ice

    All the water for the first 5 days days was frozen solid on the plateau. Even the bigger rivers had a solid thick ice cover. Yaks and deer licked ice…

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    Finally in the thin air

    After doing a massive 120km day from 3700m over the 4768m Kunlun Pass I was finally on the high Tibetan Plateau and off the busy Tibet-Qinghai Highway. The following days there…

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  • CHINA

    ‘You did not sleep inside?’

    Finding a scenic camp spot could be hard in the dark. One night I ended up sleeping on a back balcony of a Taoist Temple at 3700m. I felt a bit…

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    Toward Tibet

    Reaching snow at 3600m on the way to 4800m Kunlun Pass, one of the northern gateways to the Tibetan Plateau. #biketouring #China #Qinghai #November2015…

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