The 7 Nations tackle China

South Yunnan. Rainy season. Permanent drizzle and rain. Thick, grey, mist hanging in the tropical air. The hillsides seem like they are slowing falling apart, exposed to the elements. Piles of rocks and deep red earth splayed across the road. We witness mini landslides and some generally small rock falls, causing us to drive an occasional slalom course.

Cooked in Cambodia

The heat is all-embracing. It’s sweltering. It melts you; literally sucks the life juices out of you. April is apparently the killer month for dense heat, in May it remains a sticky 38°C to 40°C and over and often feels hotter. Heat evasion becomes a major preoccupation.

The Butchers & the Farewells

What to do with Bruce in Laos when we go to Vietnam?

Reunions in Vietnam

If there was one thing Tom didn’t want to do, it was to ride on a moped in Vietnam. „I’d rather die than (a favourite saying of his) get on one of those things.“

That was until he and Jens arrived back from the airport in Hanoi now with Stefan, and noticed Jens’s iPhone missing.

More Myanmar Photos

Here are some more photos from Myanmar. We might add more later.

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China Revisited

Some oddities and niceties from our time in China. Have fun browsing!

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More than just golden sands

The final drive into Goa was the best part of the whole trip southwards. A 3-lane motorway stint where the 4 of us (still with Max and Alina in Tanzophant) screamed with joy to each other through the walkie-talkies we’ve been using for inter-car communication, followed by palm-fringed country lanes, through small villages with brightly painted houses, fuchsia pink or lilac recurring regularly and slowly the realisation that we’ve reached the Tropics and Tourism.

Slowing down and flying high

New country, new views. After the barren, imposing mountains of Tibet we are immediately submerged into lush, green, deep gorges with the temperature rising every metre we drop. Steep hillside after hillside of terraces for farming with suspension bridges hanging like threads over the rushing rivers deep down below. Indian skins, brightly coloured sarees, spicy curries.

Bad Luck Comes in Threes

A tale of mishaps and the border crossing that will become legendary.

Pleiten, Pech und Pannen und die Grenzüberquerung, die legendär wird. 

Nomads & Nature

Kyrgyzstan is magnificent! A new entry and straight in at number 1. “Kyrgyzstan douze points.”