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We’re now in Xining, which is the capitol city of the Qinghai Province in China. This city is approx halfway on our bike journey between Ulan Bator and Kathmandu. Read more »

It was wonderful to get to Hong Kong! Finally a little of the structure and order we’re used to in the West. Now we could safely cross the streets on green, we were no longer in constant danger of falling into an open manhole, and we could enjoy wandering around in smoke-free public buildings and shopping centres. Read more »

Eric Mortensen has written a report about our journey towards Lanzhou. You can read it here:

http://daprez.typepad.com/fullrulle/2005/06/mot_lanzhou.html
(norwegian language only).

During the last week we have cycled through the muslim province of Ningxia, pitched our tents in a nuclear zone, crossed the Yellow River for the second time and finally arrived the huge city of Lanzhou. Read more »

I suddenly hear a woman’s voice behind me: ”Can I ask you some questions, please?” I turn quickly and see three young Chinese women coming towards me. “Of course, “ I answer right away, thinking to myself: “Wow, somebody I can finally talk to in English, and girls at that!” Read more »

We had just left the marvellous but crowded city of Pingyao in China and we looked forward to move westwards into a rural and mountainous valley. But we were terrible wrong. We had to cycle in pollution and misery for two lengthy days before we finally reached heaven on the other side of the Yellow River. (this article is in Norwegian language only) Read more »

From Jining and southwards the map mainly said continusly habitation. Thus we met a lot of Chinese people here, mostly of them only staring at us. When we arrived the big cities of Datong and Taiyuan, we could also enjoy all the "western" pleasures, like hamburgers and hotels with hot showers.... Read more »

Eric Mortensen has written a report about our journey towards central China. You can read it here:

http://daprez.typepad.com/fullrulle/2005/05/vel_inne_i_kina.html
(norwegian language only).

We had not been many days on our bikes in China before some police officers stopped us enroute to Jining. To our surprise we were caught in an unopen area, which required an alien travel permit. How could we know.... Read more »

Could we bring our bikes into China? That was the big question when we arrived the border between Mongolia and China. It was four nervous guys who woke up in the morning preparing for the challenging border crossing and chinese buraucracy. Read more »