pakistan: islamabad - rawalpindi - gilgit - karimabad - passu
china: kashgar - tibet (ali - shigatse - lhasa) - golmud - xi'an - beijing - shanghai - yangshuo - dali - lijang - kunming

 

departure, islamabad & gilgit 11. - 15.09.2004

long waiting; shaking bus-ride, everybody wants to be on the pictures. nadia & irshad invite us, madina guest house, enjoying gilgit...
- sorry, big pictures are not available at the moment -

 



lhasa - xi'an 20. - 30.10.2004

freezing cold sleeperbus to goldmud, with our chinese friends mars lee & winson, by train to xi'an, visiting the army of terracotta warriors, hiking up & down the mountain hua shan, ...
 

 
 
gilgit - karimabad 16. - 18.09.2004

with our friend vlado to karimabad, old hunza inn, eating out with women from kabul, baltit & altit-fort, brilliant food, duicar sunrise, hiking, enjoying high mountains & glaciers...
 

beijing 31.10. - 11.11.2004

delicious food, sharing lots of time with declan, forbidden city, lama temple, hiking on the great wall, temple of heaven, aquarium, cycling through the city, ...
 

 

karimabad - khunjerab 18. - 23.09.2004

bus to passu, shopping, no electricity, passu tourist lodge, hiking over suspension bridges, sost...
 
shanghai 12. - 18.11.2004

even more food, amazing skyline, acrobatics, games on the internet, meeting laetitia, gary ian, sylvain & annette, ...
 

 

khunjerab - kashgar 23. - 26.09.2004

china, pamir-range, lots of different cultures, camels at 4000m, tashkurgan, sunday-market...
 

yangshou 19. - 26.11.2004

biking through the farmers villages, relaxing on the bamboo-boat, climbing limestone-hills, chartering own boat, hiking through the rice fields, ...
 

 

kashgar - darchen 26.09. - 03.10.2004

with klara & jerry on an adventurous busride to ali, tibet, experiencing real tibetan lifestyle on a pilgrimstruck, spending a few days with the two cyclists wolfi & sebastian, hiking arount mount kailash, ...
 

yunnan 227727.11. - 10.12.2004

walking through the stoneforest-labyrinth, visiting the old-towns of dali & lijiang, hiking up the lion's hill, enjoying 3 days treking along the incredible tiger-leaping-gorge, spending time with karl, flip, lee & johan
 

darchen - shigatse 04. - 10.10.2004

chiu monastery & lake manosarovar, 8hrs hitching until we got some transport, checkpoints, a night on the tibetan truck, left behind in the middle of nowhere with seb, charles & takuma, a ride on the tractor, ...
 

 
 
 

shigatse - lhasa 11. - 19.10.2004

one week in snowland hotel with our french friend seb, bargaining for jackets, meeting charles, enjoying good food like momos, tucpa, sticks & apple-pie, visiting monasteries & renting bikes, ...
 
impressions ..
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some beautiful pictures from pakistan, tibet & china...
 

 
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