December 3, 2013
DAY 15 THE END Here we are, at the end of the tour with loads of stories to tell to our friends and making them jealous for all what we have experienced! The last day has been somehow wet (in the dry season!) but ...
November 3, 2012
We have been to Cape Town and trough the Moroccan desert, we have ridden roads in Alaska and in Patagonia, we reached North Cape and Sicily, we toured the Pacific coasts, we climbed dirt tracks on the Himalaya in Tibet and waded across rivers in Siberia... what ...
October 19, 2011
...to beautiful Turkey! 16.10.2011 After Tunesia and Morocco another motorcycle tour, cooperatively organised by the Tourenfahrer magazine and Edelweiss Bike Travel, has started today! Befitting the title, the tour starts in the adventurous and rich in history city of Istanbul. Of course, ...
June 1, 2011
Hello out there, here a small group of people from US, Canada, Mexico and Germany take the challenge to explore the highest region on earth, with an average elevation of 4.900m (16,000feet). On the first day we got time to visit the Potala palace in Lhasa, ...
May 24, 2011
Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, and the road that leads to Base Camp: today the Adventure Tibet Tour reached its ultimate destination. The Base Camp road is an unpaved washboard track, more than 100 km long, with more than 100 hairpin turns. Nowhere else can you ...
May 23, 2011
After an exciting crossing of Lhakpa-La, at 5250 m the highest mountain pass on this tour, today we finally laid eyes on the world's tallest mountain: Mount Everest, or Qomolangma, as the locals call it. I could marvel about its beauty and write sentence upon sentence ...
May 21, 2011
One of the most spectacular riding days of this spectacular tour through Tibet. First we coverd 80 km of single track, unpaved, cut into the rock high above the Yarlung River. Then, after a picnic of instant noodles, bananas and snickers we tackled Budrang-La, a mountain pass ...
May 16, 2011
Tibet, Roof of the World, we are back once again. After meeting up yesterday in Chengdu, an average-size city of 8-10 million people in southwestern China, the group flew to Lhasa together today. Tibet's capital city is situated at an elevetion of 3,700 meters, where the air ...