These are the questions our friends ask us now on a daily basis. Fair enough. The count down is now down to 16 sleeps until we depart from Vientiane on the 23. April, heading North to the Chinese border. It will take us 66 days (lucky number!) until Boris and I are back to work.
So where can you go in 60 days starting from Vientiane? Head north, travel through China with quite some long riding days, then hang out in Lhasa, and then keep on going north until you hit the silk road. From there head west into Kyrgyzstan and enjoy some shorter rides, do some hiking and horse back riding in the countryside. Then travel west into Uzbekistan and visit the bazaars and ancient cities of Samarkand and Bukhara. Then put your bike into pieces in Tashkent and fly to Bangkok, where you put it back together and ride back to Vientiane. Roughly, that is at least a good plan for Horst, Boris and me, while Simon will then continue with his go-west fever and make his way all the way back to Uri in Switzerland.
There are quite some slopes to climb on this trip: We start at less than 200m asl (Vientiane) and have to first make our way up to the Tibetan plateau. Then again down to around -150m in Turpan to take another climb over the Tourgart-Pass at around 4300m asl into Kyrgyzstan. We can only hope that our bike is strong enough to carry Boris and me over these passes, otherwise one of us will have to walk. But we are prepared to change the air jet, so there is more oxygen flowing into the engine and the fuel-air mixture will be just right so that the bike continues to run smoothly and with full power - or so we plan. And we have been given a whole pack of Diamox from our private Medic-Care team in Switzerland so that we can fight off headaches and grumpy moods and all the trouble associated with altitude sickness.
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