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barren rocky landscape – just how I like it

 

Dirt road through the fog – no cars, but severe slopes!

 

pretty cool for a summer cycling tour

 

all full of mosquitoes here – quickly into the tent!

 

Campsites are pretty expensive here – so I wash myself in the lake

 

First I light the fire, then I jump into the lake – so afterwards I don’t get too cold

 

Whew! The sea! Shortly before Trondheim

 

Pretty – in good and calm weather I continue along the coastal road to the north

 

Without wind, it is not so cold – I even got some skin colour!

 

On a tiny street on offshore islands, along rugged fjords

 

In between, every now and then there comes a ferry crossing

 

Evening – looking for a camp

 

on a pretty high bridge I cross a fjord

 

Previously it was a toll road – but the construction costs are now paid

 

Appearances can be deceptive – it has rained a lot, but then mostly the camera stayed in the bag

 

Up! After a long, windy, wet and steep driveway

 

I taped off the ventilation holes in the helmet – it was too cold with the wind

Behind Anzob-Tunnel in Tajikistan

Traveling on remote tracks in the Pamir

A day’s journey behind the Zorkul lake in the Pamir

Just before the village Shaimak in the Pamir …

… after a few days on donkey paths again a proper gravel road under my wheels!

At Karakul Lake – shortly before the Kyzylart Pass (4280m) to Kyrgyzstan

The black fence marking the border area with China – there is no international border crossing from Tajikistan from there, hence the „detour“ of Kyrgyzstan

An old closed-down road in the Mongolian Autonomous County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Bayingolin the People’s Republic of China. On the map this street looked like a shortcut of about 100 Km. The four-day trip in a virtually pristine wilderness turns out, as can be seen in the photo, to be a little more difficult than expected. For that I am rewarded with seemingly untouched landscape and days of solitude. One of the most impressive stretch of the entire trip!

Again traveling on remote roads, here in the province of Qinghai, a „shortcut“ between the G109 and G214 roads. The major roads lead in a wide arc around this mountain. The photo shows the pass at about 4500m, several parts of the trail are impassable by car, but the Chinese are using motorbikes to get around in this area.

If I remember correctly, this is the provincial border between Qinghai and Sichuan – at any rate, the highest point of my journey.

View of the driveway

Tibetan Monastery in Sichuan

Typical Tibetan settlement

From there I travel along the provincial border with Tibet steadily southward.