A personal benny
A personal Benny! We have been asked by many travellers and overlanders how we arranged a permit for driving China. Well from our experience we can say it wasn¡¯t easy. We tried to obtain one via the CITS, the Chinese…
Driving into China
The last stage of the Karakoram Highway will lead us to the last but biggest country of all, China!! We are looking forward to China but have to cross one major obstacle first. The obstacle is the highest part of…
Sweet and Spicy China
Our first chinese experience starts at breakfast. Jason, our Chinese guide has told us that the restaurant serves bread, eggs and porridge. Vely good bleakfast. We are looking forward to a nice continental sweet breakfast and sit down on one…
Lord of the ringtones
We haven¡¯t had the opportunity to update the website and are glad to find an internetcafe round the corner from our hotel. But then the computer have no diskdrive and we still can¡¯t update the site. Mmmmh… bummer. Lot¡¯s of…
Sleeping in the park
Well maybe a little hangover¡ We are supposed to meet Jason at 8.30 in the morning, so unfortunately we have to get out of bed early. We find it quite difficult today. Jason is pretty easy going so when we…
Raiders of the lost Arch
Within the true travellers nature lies the wish to find that one special place nobody has been to or at least only few. Ward, a guy from Belgium we have met, had read a story in the National Geographic Magazine…
Animals everywhere
Today is the day we have been waiting for. Today is the market day in Kashgar. It is the biggest market in Central Asia and up to 50.000 people will gather to sell whatever they have. The most lively market…
Sometimes it is nice…
Most of the time Jason is quite nice, but we also have to get used to have someone on the back seat trying to help us all the time. Okay, we have our language difficulties if we want to find…
A thousand buddha caves
A quick check of the car reveals something we don¡¯t want to see. All four new steeringbolt rubber have come loose! We feel horrible as we are almost sure we can¡¯t get them in China. Steeringbolt rubber contain greese to…
UFO¡¯s (unidentified food objects)
We don¡¯t seem to get used to the Chinese breakfast (too much garlic on the early morning). But closeby the hotel we find a supermarket so we can arrange a real Dutch breakfast: bread with peanut butter. With a smile…
From Amersfoort to Beijing