Russia

August 3, 2016

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🚌 Bayreuth, Berlin (beautiful exchanges in bus and taxi despite terrible back pain).

✈Moscow

 

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Mongolia

August 4 - October 3, 2016

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✈Ulanbaatar

🚗 Stepperiders Töv (back pains male me rotten back)

🚌  🚗 Ulanbaatar (nadaam festival, bow shooting and wrestling ceremonies, extremely pushy people fighting for transport, worship sisters, a new home and family, temple visit).

🚌 🚌 🚗 🐫 🚌 Dalanzadgad, yolyn am, khongoryn els, bayanzag flaming cliffs, Dalanzadgad, Ulanbaatar  (wild horses and sunset on the singing sand dunes in the night, moonlight worship on the Gobi plains).

🚌 🚗 🚌 Terelj, Ulanbaatar (Choijin Lama Temple furious Gods, Chinese embassy challenges, looking for a horse, blue sky lounge and communal dancing, stepping at the square, speurtocht for maps, visiting a Dutch pirate in the ger district, spontaneous throat singing and horsehead violin concert, holy spirit at Gandan Khiid's huge Buddha statue).

🚗 Stepperiders töv

🐎 bogdkhan uul strictly protected area, Mandshir Giid (from customer to bareback riding horseguide in minutes, trip with Buena the orphan horseman)

🚗 Ulanbaatar, Stepperiders töv,

🐎 Bogdkhan uul strictly protected area, Zuunmod, Terelj bridge, Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, Melkhi Ghad turtle (frog) rock, Gorkhiin davaa, Terelj (ferocious dogs, helping moving castle and sheep, sleep on holy mountains, object of tourist photos)

👍 Terelj bridge, Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, Terelj  (shaman initiation and channeling, amazing costumes and using Google translate to speak with sky spirit, great game of shaman recognized and esteemed by passers-by)

🐎 Sain Ovoo, Boot, Dundbayan, Guunjin Sum, Zuuglin Rashaan, Khaviragyn Davaa, Jivheestein gol, Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area, Khongoryn gol, Khonog tolgoi, Khagiin Khar Nuur, Khuler tuul, Khag Tuulyn belchir, Daichin, Galtai Bulnai, Khonkhon Nuur (stay with nomad families, rain storm shelter, lit gers under the milky way, wild moose and bear country, crossing huge rivers, jumping out of belly deep mud, jumping from rock to rock, a name for my horse, left alone in river valley, lost all valued objects, emotional meeting of lovely family past all language barriers, finding a new grandmother, four days of phone searching, you have a big problem-people, babies inbakeren and free style pooing and peeing).

 motorbike Erdene Sum, Galtai Bulnai (emergency run over high peeks and through stark rain, all technology fails, tent destroyed by goats, finding shoats together, big boned meat, tears and money present at goodbye)

🐎 Galttain Khar us, Botgont, Sain Ovoo, Terelj (perfect rivers through colorful forests, finding my way alone, the losing everything curse continues, cow girl and milking 32 cows, joining a Korean actor, hugged at camp arrival).

🚗 🚌 👣 Ulanbaatar, Terelj (crazy run and finding a smuggled phone, ub2 helps Wi-Fi for all arrangements, dark night swamp crossing, motherly love and nightly horsemeat noodles

🐎 Zaan Terelj, Akhain gol, Ikh Akhain gol, Ereeni Saridag, Akhain gol, Suvyn davaa, Khurkhree gol, Terelj (co-guiding an Ozzie couple, bareback riding horsemen at the fire who run off at loud wolf alarm, nightly smugglers to Russia, disagreement about the route).

🐎  Tuul gol, Chinggis Khaan statue, Zuunmod, Stepperiders (shaman ritual, perfect lonely camping spots, hiding for men and bullets,  swimming in rivers, herds on the plains, at home with my horse in the wilderness, long kilometers crossing the plains, back to old friends with lovely relationship, Japanese galloping ride to the end of the world, last miles back home, keeping my horse ruin free, together with Buena playing on one horse).

🚗 Ulanbaatar (culture shock in luxury apartments)

🚌 🚗 🐎 🚗 👍 Mörön, Darkhad depression, Tsagaannuur, Tsataan settlement, Tsagaannuur, Tengis-Shisghed Rivers Basin National Park, Mörön  (overnight bus breakdown, wonderful music videos giving insight in Mongolian traditions and modern life and values, confusion and waiting for transport, bumping in the jeep throughout the night, midnight stop and shared yes and meal, naked lake swim, swopping horses, galloping and leading an extra horse, swampy taiga crossing, magical nomad arrival atmosphere, reindeer stripping their antlers and having breeding season, fairy tale reindeer ride, easy way for me with horse, wild landscape, mud and snowfall into the night, Korean churches visit.)

👍 👣 Khatgal, Khövsgöl Nuur National Park, Jankhai, Jankhai Davaa, Khatgal (travel on my own time, no more waiting for public transport, 262m deep crystal clear lake, turquois waters, yellow forests and white snowy tops, my own ger on the lake shore, stubborn flies, sauna and honey, free in the forest).

👣 👍 🚌 Mörön Ulanbaatar (pyjama party bus).

🚗 Khustain National Park, Ulanbaatar (a lovely day with the Prezwalski horses and my the best Christian friends).

🚄 Huahin (nice beds and hot water in the sleeper train).

 

China

October 3-22, 2016

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🚄 🚌 🚇 Erlian, Beijing (illegal sleeper bus ride, three accommodation cancellations, lovely help and sauna in a hutong hostel, Golden Week transport madness, colorful lama temple and forbidden city palaces, ice cream, jade mountains, calligraphic poems and honorary seals, an overfull square of heavenly peace, from wife open spaces in Mongolia to fenced walkways everywhere, how people are taken by the hand everywhere and follow rules, lovely Chinese hotpot).

🚇 🚌 🚗 🚌 👣 🚌 🚌 🚇 🚇 Huairou, Mutianyu, Great Wall of China World heritage site Huairou, Beijing (lonely misty climbs over the wall and into watchtowers, eating noodle soup with chopsticks)

🚇   🚇 Xi'an (at home in  . old Chinese apartment building between the skyscrapers)

🚌 🚌 🚗 🚌 👣 🚌 🚌 🚇 🚇 Mount Hua Shan Scenic Spot, Xi'an (running through fairy tale Taoist holy landscape, North peak, Qunxian Temple in the rock, Blue Dragon Ridge, Jinsuo Pass, First bridal chamber, West Peak, Yangtian sacred pool, South Peak, Xiaqi Pavilion, East Peak).

🚌 🚌 🚌 Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum at the World heritage site, Beijing (meeting angels in the church, a terracotta army and horses, Muslim food in the Hui community, wonderfully lit Bell tower)

🚄 🚌 Zhangjiajie (almost in the compartment of four half dressed thick and drinking Chinese men, playing with a baby in the sleeper train)

🚌 🚌 👣 🚌 👣 🚌 🚌 👣 🚌 👣 cable cart 🚌 🚌 🚌 🚌 🚌 🚌 👣  🚌 🚌 Zhangjiajie village,  Wulingyuan scenic and historic interest area, Zhangjiajie national forest park, Yuanjajie, Suoxiyu, Tianzi, Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie Canyon, Yellow Dragon Cave, Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie village, Huangshi village, Zhangjiajie village, Zhangjiajie (climax overseeing the limestone towers, monkeys steeling picnics, chains of brightly colored ponchos, a wining pomme friend, tour groups worth guides on loudspeakers and silent mysterious paths views and caves, sweet romantic playing Chinese couples, standing illegally on the fairy bridge,  running and flying over the peaks, smooth flow of all transportation, the greatest glass bridge of the world, eating fried crab on the street, boat ride past fluorescently lit cave formations, unexpected home stay, night and morning views in the park).

🚌 🚌 Changsha (nightly help at the train station to buy tickets and find a place to sleep, residential area with a cardboard hotel, speaking with the children, eating with the locals in the street BBQ, a lovely now on the door, banging the cardboard walls at night).

🚄 🚌 Guilin (exploring the town and Roberts at night with two Chinese girls, eating snails and bbqed oysters, colorfully lit bridges, elephant trunk hill and dancing shows, dancing on the street with the cookie dough makers, african church connection)

🚌 🚲 🚌 🚢 Yangshuo, Liugong, Yangshuo, Xingping, Yanghuo (view on rockformations and buddha cave, I've got wheels, farmers working in the rice fields, handcarts loaded with grass, water buffalo along the limestone hills, warmest welcome as a long lost friend in monkey jane's rooftop bar, dancing along the disco and pub lined streets, a lunch and boat ride present in an ok fishing village, 20yuan bill view)

🚌 🚌 🚄 🚇 🚇 🚇 🚇 🚌 🚌 🚌 🚌 🚇  Guilin, Shenzhen, Shekou, Dameisha beach, Yantian, Shenzhen (eating mountain rat, stay at a ghanese businessman gospel singer, taiphoon warning and a luxurious dive at the Sheraton beach, highest building fountain show, sophisticated and pleasant china play at SeaWorld, crazy morning relocation in the storm).

 

Nepal

October 22?, 2016 - January 02, 2017

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✈Kuala Lumpur, kathmandu (airport overnight home and social talks)

🚌 ✈Pokhara, Jomsom

👣 🚌 👣 Kagbeni, Marpha, Larjung, Ghasa, Titi Lake, Tatopani (Anapurna circuit with Mel).

🚌  Beni, Pokhara (singing and dancing in the bus with ask the local people, d aching with young guy, old lady clapping, past the dancing diwali people and towns full of little lights, free ride home, parasail acrobatics,  relaxing roof terraces)

🚌 Kathmandu (psytrance festival in the mountains, amazing sunrise over Himalayas with pumping noise, a sleeping day with an ozzy guy)

✈ 👣 Lukla, Thado Koshigaon, Phakding, Pemacholing monastery, Thulo Gumela, Rimishung monastery, Tok Tok, Sagarmatha National Park, Namche Bazar (most dangerous airport in the world, steep short airstrip, amazing colors in the monastry with the leopard faced goddess, kicked a dog that attacked a child, a very old nun alone on the mountain carrying firewood, chanting monk boys).

👣 Zarok, Kunde, Khumjung Chamga, Khumjung, Namche Bazar (Monastry close to heaven, playing with children a car and a foal on the crazy great airstrip, wonderland of sacred boulders and round stone walls, pheasants and green singing birds, praying on the ridge surrounded by eagles and prayer flags, local noodle soup and sacred red and green rhododendron forest, amazing sunset mountain views while children climb home from school carrying huge loads).

👣 Phunke Tenga, Tengboche, Deboche, Milingo, Pangboche, Ama Dablam base camp, Pangboche (amazing parrot-finchen, stunning peaks with  in fairy tale dwarf conifers covered in Chinese moss, walking alone over 5000m high between the peaks without any path).

👣 Dingboche, Chukung, Chukung Ri 5000m, Amphu Lapcha  (joy in the track meeting people,  house on a ridge between the rocks, cosy coffee house with fire, books and conversation, unlimited daal bhat, surrounded by Himalaya peaks and a white goa with Buddha eyes in the magic light of the full super moon, the day I found out that I have become a lebenskunstler, small mountain lake with singing ice, alone high up in the Himalayas).

👣 Kongma La, Lobuche, Gorak Shep, Kala Pattar, Gorak Shep, Everest Basecamp, Gorak Shep  (broken sleep and breathless after a so of water, amazing views of 6 and 7 thousanders and prayerflags from the bedroom window, glacier cave meditation and avalanche at basecamp).

👣 Dzongla, Cho La, Dragnag (mountain birds in ask sizes and colors, visiting a glacier, stunning ridgewalk, sleeping at lake near towering mountains, crossing the snow white glacier, praying on the pass, speaking with a Sherpa along the river).

👣 Gokyo, Gokyo Ri, Thonak Tsho, Ngozumba Tsho, Gyazumba Tsho, Gokyo (sitting on and watching the growing and ever moving glacier, birthday cake with Everest view, living in the family business, wandering between huge peaks and frozen lakes, bakery life with guitars).

👣 Renjo La, Lumde, Arya, Bhote Kosi Valley, Chhule, Lumde, Marulung, Thame, Namche Bazar, Lukla (hanging my prayer flags on the last pass, amazing wildness and lovely hikes, finding my own way through the mountains on 5000m feeling so free, small earthquake sha, frozen landscape surrounding tiny villages, lunch made by a young couple carrying their baby in a basket on their back, partying with my three passes buddies, trance and goa in the mountains, playing with dog and children in the airstrip town, the hike was so easy).

✈ Kathmandu

🚌 🚌 🚌 Pokhara, Renjo Lake, Pokhara (sleeping at the holy tree, spontaneous rave and swim, running against suffocation, magic sunset chants at the peace pagoda on top of the jungle hill, crazy fall and broken tooth).

🚌 Kathmandu (living beside the Ganesha temple, rooftop family, cold weather and films in bed, children friends, a Mormon Christmas, monkey temple)

🚌 Chitwan (tears for amazing rhinos seen from the 's back, baby and mother eating peacefully, solo chasing rhino on foot at the river, boat rides between the two types of fresh water crocodiles, spontaneous morning shower on top of an elephant, safari through huge elephant grass, new year on the river bank).

🚌 🚌 Bhairahawa, Lumbini (long ride but hundreds of monks chanting at the birthplace of Buddha, beautiful sunset and moon rise between the temples, holy flame surrounded by nuns, young monks playing and falling with their bikes, like an exotic animal attraction for the Indian teenagers).

🚌 🚌 Bhairahawa, Sunauli (self-assured border crossing).

 

India 

January 02 – April 19. 2017

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🚌 🚄 Gorakphur, Varanasi (sleeping in the train with the doors open, surrounded by singing Tibetan monks on their way to the dalai lama, smoking views of burning bodies from the local roof terraces, goa in the morning with funeral processions passing, cows chilling at the fire and eating flowers, dogs searching for  body remnants, buttering bodies for lunch, crazy motorbike ride through tiny streets to huge lingam temple, nightly boat ride to the shaman river side, dark eyes holding my hair, long night at the train station).

🚄 Agra (magic inlaid gemstones of Taj Mahal)

🚄 🚌 🚗 Vasco da Gama,  Margao, Panjim, Arambol (2 days sick in the train, shark steak candlelight, high on hi-tech in the sand of German bakery, morning dives and breakfast on the beach, becoming part of the Russian community, home made trance by Sasha, all people singing and dancing together in cocks town, teleportieren, quantum plofs and polyamor, im a manifestor,

crazy scooter rides through the small alleys and the nights, chasing dogs with a huge stick and stones, dreamy concerts with magical instruments at organic vibes and twice in nature)

motorbike motorbike Vagator, Arambol (hilltop party making new psy-trance friends)

🚓 🚓 🚓 🚓 Pernem, Mapusa, Arambol (woken up by police in the night, psychotic jail and psychiatrist visits, relief and burned lips, getting a passport by crying at the police and stamping in the temple, saving a Russian friend's life)

motorbike motorbike Mandrem, Arambol (massage with beautiful Russian ladies)

motorbike Siolim, Mapusa, Arambol (Russian doctor and illegally buying anti psychotic downers, lost trust in sense of self importance)

motorbike Vagator (A dream goa party on the beach moving from darkness to light)

motorbike (10days of ecstatic festival, hilltop, jungle calling, sweet lake, explosions on highlight tribe live, buy entry into dark psy for hashish and bring ecstatic light, hi tech meditation and lucid dreaming, sing rainbow songs at night fire hostel Keri, full body orgasm on  the hardest psy trance in disco valley beach shack until the sun touched the area and ask is perfect, crazy ride without light following pumped up Russians, Shiva valley so hard, loud, full, fast funky goa, a morning party at sweet lake)

motorbike Paradise Beach, Arambol (ride back in night without light and big trucks,  a day trip from quiet green jungle cove till crowded beaches, sweet lake shivering plants and sunset with best visuals of my life and love throughout the night, many years and doubts upon leaving)

🚗 🚄 🚄 🚄 rikshaw  🚢 rikshaw 🚢  Tivim, Mumbai, Kolkata, Nabadip, Mayapur, Antardvipa, Radrsdwipa, Simantadvipa, Godramadwipa, Madhyadvipa, Kolodvipa, Ritadvipa, Jahnadvipa, Modadramadvipa (Hare krishna to replace any word, swim in the Ganges with beautiful gopi girls, ecstatic dancing in the huge IKSCON Shri Mayapur Dham temple, dancing around the tulsi plant, guru-dev like Jesus on the boat with mist, secret mantras and gopi dust marks all over the body, elephants around the corner, 24 hour worship and thousands of Hari Bol, transcendental teachings about Krishna and radhika and the nature of the universe in eternal blissful embrace, Ganges dips with dead floating dogs, early wake ups and kertan trance)

🚌 🚄 🚗 Nabadwip, Puri (chanting in the nature streets until a huge temple dooms up, holy prasada food from the ... Temple, Krishna Das and Olga with make up in Krishna plays, I am a thunderstorm, calves sleeping carelessly in the chaotic traffic of gren bazar, visit to the sun god temple)

Mayapur (a huge temple complex, meeting such nice people who feed me, nightly worship processions with free food)

🚌 Kodaikanal (nightly worship and an amazing thunderstorm view over the Indian continent, baby gecko friend, miracle with churches, an internet café, a new home with an open fire, a chocolate factory, mangos, wood oven onion beef pizza, a stone for me, a wonderful home at the church with a fireplace, follow the drums and pierced dancers to a fire walking in the gushing rain, dancing on guitar mantras in the street, making tea with an electric spoon, a race horse farm with a new born, cheese factory treats, huge wild bisons in the backyard, falling asleep watching the flames from my bed, twin girls and Bhajan nights that bring treats in your eyes, crazy possessions worth gods, pierced people, pauweveren and trance fire walking,  swimming in the waterfall pools, computer work and wonderful Tibetan food, sitting half naked at the fire eating baby mangos and listening to the ecstatic drums and rain falling on the roof, daily ginger tea and spiritual conversations, palmpasen with green leaves above my door, work and spiritual talks with a Scottish neighbor).

🚌 motorbike 👍 Ganeshapuram, Kodaikanal a (sleeping with rats, elephant kills and a film crew, a cheese factory, riding thoroughbred race horses, singing magical bhajans, playing horse and paper people with twin girls, hiding from the reason with dogs in a cave, jungle waterfalls and water hole swim).

🚌 Palani, Kochi (college guys overnight bus and wait, fort and Chinese fishing nets, people help me with ask I need)

 

Malaysia, Indonesia

April 19 – May 18, 2017

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 ✈✈Kuala Lumpur, Denpasar

🚕 Denpasar/Kuta (worship in the hostel, new food and sunset)

🚌 Amed (advanced open water, diving with a new instructor, attack by trigger fish, feeding green turtle, clown fish, trumpet fish, shipwreck by day and night, giant green Murray eel, hammer heads, trumpetfish, great coral colors, barracuda).

motorbike 🚌 🚌 Ubud (bedbugs and conscious monkeys)

🚌 🚌 🚢 🚌 minibus  (bemo) motorbike Tulung Agung, Gunung Budheg, Pantai Ngalur (Death beach jungle and a banana plantation, tripping with new cuddle mates, an angel and a muscular cat on the river beach, awesome snakes at the water point, magical cabaret songs and dances, forgetting where I am worth angel Gabriel, a wet Russian sauna, the awesome waves, tapestry of infections through which I stay healthy, wandering through the mud into the village where ask people invite me at their homes, give foods and the children give kids hands and shout 'i love you!' like rainbow children, beautiful sex ok the beach and in my little jungle cove tent, integration worth the locals and nachos nudity speech, lots of animal sounds in the circle, energy of full moon, trance with a guitar at the to of the hill coffee camp)

🚚 🚗 🚌 🚢 🚌 minibus Tulung Agung, Denpasar, Ubud (local muslim wedding with amplified rainbow rock songs and psy chill, unexpected sleeping spot at a children's animal farm, dancing on high tech, sharing a huge bed with family)

🚕 Denpasar

 

Malaysia

18 May, 2017

 

✈ 🚄 Kuala Lumpur

 

Iran, Turkey, the Netherlands

18 May, 2017 - 19 May 2017

 

✈✈✈ 🚗 Teheran, Istanbul, Amsterdam