Karakoram Highway - November 24th to 25th 2016 19 December 201621 December 2016Marine 4 To understand our situation at this stage of this adventure, you have to know three things: 1. the border between China and Pakistan closes on […]
Kashgar - November 21st to 23rd 2016 13 December 201612 April 2017Marine 3 Arriving at night in Kashgar, we experienced our first snowflakes. We would learn that it is not normal to have snow in Kashgar and that […]
Turpan - November 20th 2016 10 December 201612 April 2017Marine 1 Arriving in Turpan North train station at 6am, we discovered a “1001 Nights” architecture, putting us in a good mood to carry on our journey […]
Jiayuguan - November 19th 2016 8 December 20162 December 2016Marine 3 From Xi’an, the first city on the Silk Road to the West, we decided to go to Jiayuguan which is also a symbolic city on […]
Mount Hua and back - November 15th to 18th 2016 6 December 20162 December 2016Marine 0 We did not know what to expect from Mount Hua (or Hua Shan, because actually Shan means Mountain in Chinese). We knew it was one […]
Xi'an - November 8th to 14th 2016 3 December 201629 April 2017Marine 2 Heading to Xi’an from Chengdu is an 11-hour ride by bus, very exhausting! You have to know that buses in China are quite exotic. People […]
Chengdu and Leshan - October 27th to November 7th 2016 27 November 201629 April 2017Marine 3 After a few days in Zhangjiajie National Park, we decided to go directly to Sichuan and its capital Chengdu! Indeed, we had already consumed half […]
Zhangjiajie - October 23rd to 26th 2016 20 November 201623 November 2016Marine 2 The distance between the old charming city of Fenghuang and the mountain village of Zhangjiajie was only 230 km which made it the smallest step […]
Fenghuang - October 21st to 22nd 2016 15 November 201613 November 2016Marine 2 After two days of hitchhiking, we have to say that we deserved to arrive in the beautiful city of Fenghuang. Don’t be fooled by your […]
Hitchhiking in China - October 19th to 20th 2016 13 November 201613 November 2016Marine 0 Our first hitchhiking experience in China, from Nanning to Guilin, being a success we decided to leave Yangshuo and head to the city of Fenghuang […]