Lhasa to Yunnan
I had planned to stay five days or so but in the end left Lhasa after almost two weeks. I had caught a cold with a strong cough and cycling without being well didn’t sound like a good idea. The cough was persistent, though after a couple of days when I felt fit enough I decided that there was no point in hanging out for another week, so I hit the road hoping it would vanish with some exercise. Lhasa is a great place to hangout and I could have easily stayed for another month or two, but the winter was approaching and my visa was about to expire – and try was no way to (more…)
Travelling the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway
I reached Lhasa on Sept 19. We left Kashgar as a group of four: the Catalans Imma & Pep, me and Joe from Switzerland. On the 2nd day out of Kashgar a few km’s down the road from Yarkand, we Claude, the Yakman. The perfect time for a break to hang out with this bike-celebrity. The usual bike-traveller chit-chat started and when the topic came to broken rims, I mentioned that my back wheel was behaving funny since Tajikistan. Claude mentioned that he had cracked several rims on his seven year Round the world trip, so we had a closer look and discovered a crack (more…)