The gallery of my latest China visit is finally done. Some nice pictures from the start and end days of my motorbike trip to Tibet are available now in the China 2010 gallery. The Tibet pictures will get an own gallery soon.
Due the recent earthquake in the Kham area, we are forced to take another route to the "classic" Tibet provinces Ü and Tang. We will start in Xining and take the Qinghai route from Golmud to Nagqu over the northern Tibetan plateau before reaching the "classic" Tibet. The changed route is now a "Historic Tibet" tour, since the new trip leads mainly through current Tibet and the former Tibetian province of Amdo.
The motorbike tour from Chengdu to Lhasa will start in May 2010. Starting from Chengdu the route will follow the southern track of the Sichuan - Tibet Hwy. As the Lonely Planet China states, it "is one of the world's highest, roughest, most dangerous and most beautiful roads". This is followed by a tour through "classic" Tibet to the Mt. Everest basecamp and back to Lhasa.
2007: Indochina by Motorbike
In November/December 2007 we wanted to ride from Hanoi (Vietnam) through Yunnan (China) and back to Luang Prabang (Laos) with Minsk motorbikes. Unfortunatly we had problems with the Chinese government about our motorbikes, so the route was changed to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. Again we had problems to get out in Vietnam a second time to Laos, Cambodia due the Vietnamese customs. So finally it got a Vietnam/Laos trip.
Travel Information
The whole route was about 3800km and done in 21 days. For a 125 Minsk this was sometimes tough riding, but the seats and the seating position was unexpectedly more comfortable than I thought.
The best map (I have found at this time) is the Reise Know-How: Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) 1:1 200.000 (World Mapping Project). Nevertheless Vietnam is an emerging country, so the government is improving or building lots of new roads.
Detailed Trip Information
Below you find a detailed route map of this trip.
Unfortunately I'm currently too lazy to write a trip report, but you can view the Google-maps enabled gallery in the Indochina 2007 section.
