Saturday, September 9, 2006

Day 5 - 9

Cycling in Pakistan


Tuesday
After arriving in Gilgit, we where so exited that we started immediatly cycling. The scenery is just amazingly nice and the pakistani people are more than just friendly. The only problem in our first biking hours was to take care to keep the bikes on the left lane ... After 60 km we called it a day and realized, that is is not easy to cycle with 35 kg luggage in that heiught :)



Wednesday
Today the whole day Mt. Rakaposhi (7788m) and his snow caped peakes was looking at us. We had a lot of fun with the truck drivers ... coz every one wants to have a picture with us :)
Again after 60 km we called it a day ... but today we had a serious mountain finish to Karimabad



Thursday
Today we climbed up to 2800m ... a total climb of altitude of 1600m ...and all that with an upset stomach ... we arrived quite tired and then we heard the bad news ... the chinese don't allow bicycles to cycle into china.
Because we want to cycle the whole stretch we decided to go by bus to Kashgar and cycle back.

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