Monthly Archives: January 2019

185 to Yangjiang 21.1.2019

In Dongxing, Ann from the China mobile shop went to dinner with me, in Yangxi, Yuan from China Unicom wanted to take breakfast with me. There had been a problem with the blurred picture of my passport (She had tried … Continue reading

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183 to Daqiaozhen 19.1.2019

When I entered the hotel yesterday, I saw a guy throwing a tissue on the floor right in front of the door. When I used the lift this morning, there also was rubbish on the floor. And this was made … Continue reading

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182 to Qingpingzhen 18.1.2019

The start in the morning was nice, because I had breakfast at a Chinese buffet and only two times took something “wrong” (too sour for my taste). It was not easy to get my bike down the stairs but to … Continue reading

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181 to Hepu 17.1.2019

More or less cycling directly from the hotel room, I started with some optimism, because it should be only 80+ km and the weather forecast promised better weather. Well, the weather was better than in the last evening, no rain … Continue reading

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180 to Qinzhou 16.1.2019

Yesterday in the evening, I felt comfortable with the temperature, wearing a t-shirt and my bike-jacket, so I thought it will be a good ride today.  But in the morning, it had 11°C and it became even colder until noon, … Continue reading

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179 to DongXing 15.1.2019

(containes only 3(!) selfies! Only 60km where to be done to Mong Cai, the last city in Vietnam, directly neighbouring DongXing and only separated by a small river. I left my unfriendly host, but there were friendly guests. They were … Continue reading

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178 to Dam Ha 14.1.2019

Last complete day in Vietnam… Today, I left Hailong after the longest stay in one place in Vietnam. This night, I was alone in the 4-bed-room, yesterday, Melchior had gone to Hanoi, like Alex the day before. I remember how … Continue reading

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177 in Halong (2) 13.1.2019

This day was dedicated to preparing the China-part of my trip and this took me 8 or 9 hours (including eating and the like). The procedure was, to divide the tour from the Vietnamese border to Zhuhai (where I visit … Continue reading

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176 Halong Bay 12.1.2019

Today, Alex (France), Melchior (Switzerland) and I (no, not Australia – Austria!) joined a day trip to the world heritage site, Vịnh Hạ Long, covering 775 of the nearly 2000 rocks/islands in the bay.A bus came to our hostel and … Continue reading

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175 in Halong 11.1.2019

My roommates, Alex from France and Robert from Germany, were better in sleeping, so I had more than 2 hours to stay in bed silently and by that managed to finish selecting the Angkor Wat photos for the blog and … Continue reading

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