At dinner in the homestay in Padum, sitting around low Tibetan tables on the kitchen floor, I meet Amelie, social worker and yoga teacher from…
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Into India: Punjab & Kashmir
Finally I’m holding my passport again, with Indian visa stamped inside. I got only 3 months, although I asked for more time. And I’m already…
Hindukush Tales
Islamabad was planned in sixties as a new capital of Pakistan on the green marsh area under Margalla hills in the centre of the country.…
Karakoram Highway
Breathtaking white mountains were touching the sky along scenic KKH – Karakoram Highway. This is the main road connecting Islamabad with Kashgar in China over…
A strange paradise along Indus
After a week in Karachi I started to feel headache and sore throat. Pollution was entering my veins. Time to leave! Cityscape didn’t want to…
Eagles in Karachi’s skyline
In the dense traffic of motorbikes, rickshaws, decorated trucks, buses with passengers on the rooftop, taxis and donkey carts policeman waved goodbye. Entering the city…
Pakistani Escort Report
We‘re moving on our bikes from one check point to another, escorted by armed men on pick-ups. For last few weeks I’ve been travelling together…
Persian Islands
A saying goes No human is an island. There was a young man starting a long overland bicycle trip from Europe towards East. On the…
Across the deserts of Iran
After biketouring for 5 months and reaching 6371 km, radius of our planet, I am resting in a hammock beside the ocean and recalling memories…
Towards Teheran
How can you understand something constantly surprising? After 3 months cycling in Iran, the country seems to me as an optical illusion: picture within a…