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Photo by Hendi Kaf, in Cambodia

I haven't been everywhere...
but it's on my list!


Photo by Hendi Kaf,
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Balkantour 2011 - the video
We are back - riding through Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro. We had everything: brandnew highways, paved roads, gravel roads and single dirt-tracks that gave us awesome experiences: what a great playground for us bikers!



This was our way: we started from the North of Germany to Venice, took the ferry to Greece and entered Albania right in the south. We stayed overnight in Gjirokaster - an old town being world cultural heritage. The next day we had big fun in the mountains cleaning the bikes in a ford at the end of the dirt road...
We passed Lake Ohrid (Macedonia) and got back to AL - to the road from Peshkopi along the river Drin.
Kosovo was not dangerous to us at all but we rode back to AL the same day. The ferry on Lake Komani was the next adventure. We left Albania on an unpaved mountain road through the Vermosh Valley to Montenegro. The next day we saw Cruise liners in the bay of Kotor and later again in the harbour of Dubrovnik - this kind of tourism is almost everywhere here along tho coast, but minefields in the backcountry of Croatia still exist - what a sad look in the beautiful mountains...

In case you have 13 minutes of time you are kindly invited to watch my video - I hope you`ll like it:



btw: the subtitle "Gegensätze intensiv erfahren" means "coming to know/riding intensive contrasts" ("erfahren" has two meanings in german...)

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Bravo!
Beautiful ride, beautiful video. I applaude your adventurous spirit and high quality video production standards. Bravo. - Fabini
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Very nice trip, bautiful video.
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Thank you guys!!!


@texmarco: your sticker is really top!
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Thanks.If you like I will send you a couple by post.
Ciao from ITALY
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..mir kribbelts im Hintern....
hallo Ralf,
bin zufällig auf deine Videos gestossen, weil ich nä. Jahr auch den Balkan insAuge gefasst habe.....
bekomme wässrigen Mund!!
vor 2 Monaten war ich auch um die Ostsee/Baltikum unterwegs, und das ist jetzt (mit deinem Video) pötzlich wieder da, wie wenn's grad gewesen wär...

Respekt, hast super gemacht,
mach weiter so

fränkischer GS-Gruss
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Danke Heiner!
Albanien wandelt sich zunehmend - mach die Tour im nächsten Jahr, du wirst es nicht bereuen...

Mehr Infos hier auf meiner HP (falls du magst): ab-die-luzie.npage.eu
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I see your video from second 1 and until the end....Its truly an adventure in the Balkans....!

Thank you for sharing this video with us.....
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Hi Ralf.
I don't know if you got my mp. It seems I can receive them but I am not allowed to respond (I don't understand why !!!)
However I sent you the stickers few days ago and hope you got them.
If you like you can give me your e-mail address by mp so I can write to you.
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We were there also in July & August for the second time. Balkan region is great for motorcycling. I'll be back next year! Nice video!
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Dear Marco - the stickers have arrived - thank you so much!
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