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Photo by Sean Howman, The Pamir highway in an unseasonably cold late October, Tajikistan

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Photo by Sean Howman,
The Pamir highway in an unseasonably
cold late October, Tajikistan



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Hi all. I`m in Lhasa now with my Honda Africa Twin! I have Chinese visa only. I do not have any permits, chinese number plate, driving license, guide and so on. No problems with police. But only one road to Lasa is open for foringer tourists. It`s 215 road via Golmud.
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verry good, did you get your visum at the border or somewhere else? and dit you come from nepal or india, sorry cant find Golud on my map.
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verry good, did you get your visum at the border or somewhere else? and dit you come from nepal or india, sorry cant find Golud on my map.
I got chinese visa in moscow. I came from kazakhstan. Golmud is situated 1100km from Lhasa towards north. It`s chinese city. Tomorrow I plan to go to everest base camp with bike. Bun the weather is not so good and everest may be hidden.
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I got chinese visa in moscow. I came from kazakhstan.
Hi Alex,

which border crossing Kazakhstan/China did you use?

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Druzhba-Alashankol border crossing was used by me. I asked chinese policeman about entering china at Jeminay-Maikapchigay border crossing and he told me "NO"!
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hello alex

as we are planing to go to china next year please tell me:

where did you leave china? any problems?

thank you very much

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as we are planing to go to china next year please tell me:

where did you leave china? any problems?

thank you very much

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Hi. I know only one place where you can try to get in China. It`s a Druzhba-Alashankol pass. If you be succeed in border crossing it means your trip is go right. I did not have any problem inside China and Tibet with PSB. Also no problem when I was leaving China at the Jeminay-Maikapchigay pass. I did not have any guids in Tibet. In china are two big problems only: navigation (hieroglyphs) and meals. Dream courageously and all will be OK!

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Join our convoy thru China,Tibet 2007
Exciting as it undoubtedly is, there are inherent risks in entering China without the regulation paperwork. An alternative is to join our convoy of 4WD vehicles and make a major saving on the extortionate cost of a guide.
We plan on entering China from Laos around end of May 2007 and spending approx 6 weeks before exiting at the Kunjerab Pass into Pakistan.
Anyone interested?
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Hi there Hone41,

Although I won't be joining you I'm interested in your experiences as I hope to be going into China for 6 weeks in 2009, possible sharing a guide also. Can you keep us posted.

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Alex, you are real hero!
Do you have any journal or report? English or Russian languague.
It is incredible, that you are not needed any permists for motorbikes.

This year I planed Mongolia, this trip I must canceled and I was in Lybia:
report: http://www.weber.cz/bebaweb/Libye/Report/report.html
photos: http://www.weber.cz/beba/2006_Lybie/

For next year I plainig Kazachstan-China-Pakistan (Karakoram Higway)
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Kazachstan-Kyrgystan-Uzbekistan (Pamir trakt)
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Alex, you are real hero!
Do you have any journal or report? English or Russian languague.
It is incredible, that you are not needed any permists for motorbikes.

This year I planed Mongolia, this trip I must canceled and I was in Lybia:
report: http://www.weber.cz/bebaweb/Libye/Report/report.html
photos: http://www.weber.cz/beba/2006_Lybie/

For next year I plainig Kazachstan-China-Pakistan (Karakoram Higway)
or
Kazachstan-Kyrgystan-Uzbekistan (Pamir trakt)
Thanks for the compliment)) I have a report in russian. If you can read it I will send you. rubtsov_alex@mail.ru If you whant to get in China from Kaz and go to Pak after that you can not see China. An idea to get in from Kaz and to go to Mongolia border (Erenhott) is better. I have been in Mongolia last year. It was very hard) The next plan is around africa, but I don`t know when.

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Well done!
I´m in almaty, Kazakh, waiting untill mid March to head into China. I will use that pass. Last summer Angela B passed the same crossing point without problems.
If you return via kaz, before mid march, please let me know!!
Ride safe,
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hello fer

we are planing to enter china on the same point this year. (june 2007)
please let me know wether you had problems or not.

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Will do
Hopefully, by that time I'll be in china!
but, I will try to keep in touch.
My websie is www.nomadpodcast.com
It has not been updated since last summer because my computer broke and...
It is working now but I need to dedicae it the time to get it up and running again. By mid march I hope o ride int china and update it regularly.

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I´m in almaty, Kazakh, waiting untill mid March to head into China. I will use that pass. Last summer Angela B passed the same crossing point without problems.
If you return via kaz, before mid march, please let me know!!
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Which way do you whant to take in China? If your aim is Tibet you should get ready for low temperature in march-april there.
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