By Train from Tibet to Berlin in Winter — Part 1 — Stop Over Kathmandu
29.01.2018 The great adventure started with a week in Kathmandu to sort out my China Visa. After some long flights with short connections I (and my luggage) arrived finally in…
By train from Tibet to Berlin in Winter — Part 2 — Tibet!
05.02.2018 Why did I opt to fly from Kathmandu to Lhasa? I had done the 7 nights overland tour in a jeep from Kathmandu to Lhasa in 2007 and it…
By train from Tibet to Berlin in Winter — Part 3 — On the way to Beijing!
07.02.2018 Now the great train adventure starts! I arrived at the Lhasa train station well ahead of time. Strict security is in place to even enter the station. First ID…
By Train from Tibet to Berlin in Winter — Part 4 — Beijing, the Great Wall, roast duck & scorpions
09.02.2018 The Emperor Qianmen Hotel is located in a side street right in the center. Check in was quick, they even spoke well enough English. It seems post modern. In…
By train from Tibet to Berlin in Winter — Part 5 — Ice, ice in Harbin, baby!
12.02.2018 Arrived in Harbin with approx. 1.5 hrs delay. The small airport was packed with people. More flights seemed to have arrived at the same time. Finding my luggage was…
By train from Tibet to Berlin in Winter — Part 6 — Russia’s Wild Far East, Tigers & the Pacific!
15.02.2018 The flight from Harbin to Vladivostok was short with about 1 hr 20 min and it was only about half an hour delayed. One of my friends asked –…
By train from Tibet to Berlin in Winter — Part 7 — Mosaics & Ice fishing in Komsomolsk-na-Amure
17.02.2018 The first train on my TransSib-BAM-Adventure was scheduled for 09:45 Moscow time. All train schedules in Russia are running on Moscow time, I suppose otherwise it would be a…
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New Year’s river cruise to Amsterdam
The New Year 2018 started like the old year ended... working on a river cruise ship. This time it was a relatively short cruise from Düsseldorf to Antwerp then Rotterdam,…