The places where we have cycled.
We have three days of, so what better to do than spend these days cycling? A good training for our upcoming world trip in the Belgium hills. We pack our new Hilleberg Nammatj 3GT tent, new Cumulus sleeping bags and our new Optimus stove. Weather forecast: cold and dry!
New Years 2012. We take our Santos Travelmaster 2.6 bicycles to Epen in Southern Limburg and with camera gear packed we hit National Park Hoge Venen in Belgium. We’ve had lots of rain the passed few days, so the tracks are muddy, which make for a good adventure. We end the day with champagne in a New Year!
Watch our 5-minute movie about our cycling adventure in Sichuan, China. High mountain passes, snow and Tibetan monestaries.
We leave Shangri-La and find quiet roads towards the Tiger Leaping Canyon. There are not many people in this area and it’s quiet with a few heavy climbs in between and some great views on white peaks in the distance. The Tibetan flat-roofed white houses disappear and make way for decorative Chinese ones.
We leave Litang and cycle over high mountain passes and pass many Tibetan villages. I always thought Tibet was like a high plain, but it’s up and down and up and down. A cutting wind chills our faces, but we enjoy every moment in the mountains. By order of the police we stay one night with a Tibetan family and we visit a monastery without monks!
As soon as we leave Kanding we start climbing towards the first 4000+ meter pass of this cycling adventure in China. Clouds are rolling in and soon we have rain, at 3600 meter it changes into snow and at 4000 meter we are pedaling through a snow storm. There’s nothing here, so we are forced to pitch our tent by the side of the road. Luckily for us, traffic is also stranded, so it’s a quiet but cold night…
On our way to the Tibetan plateau we should have brought some earplugs! Oh, the Chinese blow their horns as many time as they breath! Weather it means ‘get out of here’ or ‘hi there stranger’ I’m not sure, but for the sake of it I’ll just move…
Scotland from the saddle: a short video of our bicycle touring trip around Scotland. Watch it now!
After the rolling hills we are looking at the first long climb, the Bealach na Ba pass towards Applecross. With 626 meter the highest pass in Scotland. What? No more than 626 meter? That’s nothing! Well, in 9 kilometers and with 20%+ grades it’s a killer!
Here’s a short movie of our cycling adventure in Namibia! Watch it now!