5,000 km overland: Beijing to Kathmandu - part one

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September 12th 2007

Published: September 12th 2007

After numerous long trips on the roads of southern Africa, I had become hooked on the idea of overland travel: "the journey ... in its truest and grandest and messiest sense, as a continuous line upon the surface of the earth that connects two distant places", to quote an article I read recently. If a 2,000 km round trip on, admittedly, excellent roads in Namibia and Botswana was something I n... Read Full Entry

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Elizabeth Weir

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I decided in early 2006 that I'd had enough of the London rat-race and the career thing - at least, for the time being - and that I'd like to take some time out: "me time", as it were; time to do at least some of the things that I'd been thinking about doing over the last few years but hadn't been able to fit in around work and client demands. So here I am: backpack to the ready (to be honest, it had never really been put away after my '93-'94 round-the-world trip), and a gazillion ideas about how to fill the next xx months..... (And, no, I've no idea when I'll go back to the "real" worl... full info

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this is THE place to buy chilli!

crickets for sale in the Muslim Quarter of Xi'an

view en route from Tongren to Xining

in the back of the truck, you need to bundle up!

prayer flag en route from the Kunlunshan Pass to the Tanggula Pass

yak at Namtso Lake

courtyard in the Tibetan quarter, Lhasa

...and the kettle-boiling solar panels really work... though I'm not sure I'd like my cup of tea to be so weather-dependant. Don't see it catching on in the UK!

Potala Square, Lhasa

The phallic symbol is a monument to the 50th anniversary of the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Apparently it is supposed to be a modern representation of Everest...