Dear friends, we hope you were not so worried about the earthquake in Sichuan. We have been receiving worried mails from some of you. Nothing happened to us! Although we are only a few hundreds km from the epicenter we didn't feel anything nor did we see any destruction. It seems that the mountains absorbed the shockwaves. Let us hope that the h...

You can judge the person by it's apperance. And so you can't really judge the country by it's capital. It took gatting on a train to leave the city, to see the smog. The scienery out the window was quiet eye oppening. There weher huge appartment buildings right next to the clay homes and An enormous piles of coal. It's autumn, so the colors are ...

Alright, so after today, there may not be may entries for the next... 4-5 days. We're heading out to Qinghai Lake today, which we were told that some foreigners were stopped by the police last week. Bloody communists.... Even recreational travel becomes a tangle of bureaucracy. Another cause for concern: it's not easy travelling with people you ...

Ca y est, je viens de rejoindre Xining, capitale de la province du Quinhai. Il y pas mal de choses que je voulais ecrire depuis le debut de ma traverse du tibet sichuanais et d un bout du Quinhai a partir du nord du Yunnan, comme par exemple, pourquoi sont elles des regions tibetaines alors qu elles ne sont pas au "Tibet". La Chine a envahie le ...