After considering riding a camel through western Mongolia, we finally came up with the suitable route and an interesting means of transportation for this Year. The Karakorum Highway links the Chinese city of Kashgar with the Pakistani Karakorum following the historical Silk road to India crossing the Himalayans at the Khunjerab Pass at 5500m. Despite […]

Ever-since Mao’s cultural revolution Han china has maintained a bizarre relationship to their cultural and religious heritage. In recent years a landslide-like pivot in politics has made them excessively value their cultural sites. Ridiculously inflating some micro sites and transforming everything into some kind of surreal amusement park.Idiot proof walkways, strict crowd guidance, do and […]

Every china traveler knows without your passport at hand, xray scan and full body tap you may not enter any regular train or bus-station. On a regular day you will maybe pass 10 Id checks in a day. Some of them less noticed like at the hotel or when you buy a train, bus or […]

5am, Tibetan Ladies walking the large circle of prayer around the Longwu Monastery in Tongren QinghaiThey will often make 10-20 rounds around the temples, always walking clockwise. I was exhausted after my first round. #Freetibet #Tibet #longwu #Tongren #pilgrim #qinghai