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SIBIRIA – Longest unsupported e-bike expedition in the world – Stage 1 – 2015

MONGOLEI – Wild Freedom 2011-2012

TRANS-EAST EXPEDITION Stage 4 – 2009

TRANS-EAST EXPEDITION Stage 3 – 2008

TRANS-EAST EXPEDITION Stage 2 – 2007

TRANS-EAST EXPEDITION Stage 1 – 2005

AUSTRALIA – Red Earth Expedition 1999-2003

MONGOLEI 1996 / Summer

NEPAL 1996 / Fall

TIBET 1995-1996

CHINA – Taklamakan 1995

MADAGASCAR 1994

ANDAMAN ISLANDS 1992-1993

INDIA 1991-1993/1995

HIMALAYA 1993 / 1995

PAKISTAN 1991-1992 / 1993

IRAN 1991 / 1992 / 1993

EASTERN ANATOLIA 1991 / 1992

TURKEY 1991 / 1992

EGYPT 1992 / 2004

GUYANA (former British Guiana) 1990

WESTERN NEW GUINEA 1989

Rehab Center Valznerweiher

Printing company Lokay e.K.

Wechsel Tents GmbH

Ortlieb Sportartikel GmbH

Ivanhoe of Sweden

Border France – Spain – refueling refused

Storm and memories

Technology – Updates – Apps

Should we spend the night at the highway service station?

Internet outage – flying blind

Like in a fairytale forest

Joy shared is joy immeasurable!

Travel in the flow

Myths and legends

Thirteenth summary – Mystical transition to the other world

Twelfth summary – Our horse family finds a new home

Eleventh summary – Wild Freedom

Tenth summary – different than planned

Ninth summary – Adventurous march to Tsagaan Nuur, Khatgal and Mörön

Eighth summary – Shock at the spring camp of the Tuvan nomads

Seventh summary – At the limit – Wintering with the Tuvan nomads

Sixth summary – Survival on the white lake

Fifth summary – setting off into Mongolia’s Arctic winter

Fourth summary – Complex preparations for wintering

Third summary – The first adventurous 400 kilometers of riding

Second summary – The first weeks in a yurt

First summary – How it all began

White and black shaman

Farewell to Mogi – Apartment

Back in civilization

Decide to demolish our warehouse

Saying goodbye to Sar makes me sad

Sharga and Bor find new owners

Naraa and Tuya in the best possible hands

A miracle must happen

A year like a human life

I think my ankle is splintered

As if I had sat on a fire jellyfish

Silent birthday

Tenger has survived his colic

Horse meat, a bloody nose and a nocturnal visitor

Hospitality to the point of unconsciousness

Plague and jackpot

Further on to the Selenge River

Dream camp on the Selenge River

Setting off on the last stage

The secret of happiness is freedom

Positive thinking generates positivity

If you think so negatively, you may have to wait even longer for your visa

Unexpected – night-time visit

The last bastion of honesty – Wilder Tenger – I am next to myself

Maggots eat into the wounds

True friends are worth more than all the money in the world – Victims of the flames – Sattelbau

Bilgee’s bizarre ideas

Bilgee arrives eight days later

Lustful stallion – Storm

Naadam, the festival of festivals

Tanja in Mörön

Bitten by a dog – Flooded

As if a vampire had sucked in my life energy

Peaceful island life

At the end of Lake Khuvsgul

The first day alone

Pearl of Mongolia

No photos – Naraa sinks into a bog hole

Only after the loss do we know what we care about him

Storm fronts and wet conditions

All horses gone

Mongolian hospitality

Left out in the rain

Have we hired a moron?

Painted against theft – The only source of light in the village

Stallion attack

I would love to turn his collar upside down

The greatest hunter of all time despite the muzzle

Packing and blowing

Farewell – At windy heights

Last days at Tuwacamp – Called to be a shaman

Organized crime – soon to be civil war? – Bilgee’s low

Land of rapidly changing opinions

Itchy lichen and other reasons why we are visited

Successful mission

Lonely – Blizzard

Forest fires – lost passes – Alone

Bilgee’s plan

Do you miss the old days?

Tribal elder talks about her life

Deeply saddened

Arrival and bad news

Terrible hygiene and thieves

Alone at spring camp

Setting off for the Tuwa spring camp

Dramatic misfortune

Tuya has chosen the world

Abrupt departure? – NGO is against visa extension

Violent kick, blue ice

Massive snowfall – Epileptic seizure

Packing for departure

Unexpected yurt dismantling

Sudden death of the reindeer

Feast of gratitude

Police lining their own pockets – Riches under historical tombs – Spiritual powers punish with death

Successful hunters

Judicial visit to the Tuva camp

Glasses for the hunters – Lost horses

Bilgee’s helping hands

Risky cross-country ride – Eerie-looking taiga

Mental agility and unconditional flexibility

Bilgee’s arrival – Half starved

Back with Ajush

A lifetime of medication? – Reorganization – Mogi the acrobatic high diver – Bilgee’s Tuwa bed

Bilgee’s bumpy start

Monkoo’s favorite toy

Shamanic ritual

Tsaya has to go into intensive care

You are good people – Further travel planning

Mongolian New Year’s Day

Drunk people terrify us

Warming up before the party / Missing the eye by a centimeter / Tsaya suffers from myocarditis

Preparing for Tsagaan Sar – New Year / Mogi misbehaves again / Dangerous trip to the toilet

The path of the jade

After 18 days of arctic cold

An extraordinary birthday

Reindeer caravan

Katzer’s coffee yurt

Origin and escape

Broken taboos, wolves and how to ride a reindeer

Tipi visits or glimpses into the past

Rules of conduct

Violent kick, blue ice

Moving into the tipi – One million

Coughing masonry drill

Into the New Year with a starry sky and sparklers

Cursed by the shaman

Which help is the right one?

Missing reindeer, the bear’s paw and earthquakes

First day with the reindeer nomads

Off to the Tuwa

Give him five minutes to smile

No money no truck

Travel costs suddenly more than twice as high

Wood supply, broken chainsaw and donation

No wood for heating

Is Mogi losing an eye?

There is no time at Tsagaan Nuur

The Tuwa Council votes

Technical super disaster

Visit to the Tuwa

Bewitched by shamans

Two mayors don’t make it easy for us

Not even time for a conversation

He is a good person at heart

Wandan, chainsaw and wood supply

Bitten by a dog

Farewell to our horses

The first day in Tsagaan Nuur

The way over the ice and arrival at the White Lake

Trapped in the labyrinth of ice lakes

Tracks in the snow

Risky river crossings and breaking ice floes

Is the rock cut a gateway to another world?

Mourning for Mogi

Embraced by the taiga

Arrival in the land of wolves

At rocky heights

The icy messenger from Khovsgol Nuur and the divine order

Bitten and kicked

Were the planned daily stages a miscalculation?

Setting off for the coldest region of Mongolia

Bilgee is delirious

Bilgee’s bad mood and sudden death of the cab driver

Prison camp and Bilgee changes his mind

Millions for horse feed and conversations with Mother Earth

How does the equipment and food get to Tsagaan Nuur?

Preparation marathon and exotic TV appearance

From now on, reporting will continue at regular intervals

Are welcomed by the mayor and visit the town’s prison

Complex and highly difficult preparation for wintering in the taiga

Waiting for Bilgee and the horses

Ulzii wants his money

Reach our first stage destination

Ulzii gets too cold

Storm, snow and carried by the energy of the land

Long drinks and a cigar for your birthday

Happy days on the Selenge River

Doubters have little chance of survival in the wilderness

There are no horse thieves at five o’clock in the morning

Difficult pass crossing

Bite of the cold

The reliability of constant change

Ulzii, a spiritual challenge?

Mogi the sheep killer

Mogi’s hunting instinct and traveling with the time machine

Plagued by diarrhea

Onset of winter

Crossed to be shod

Traveling through a fairytale forest

Mogi is happy about his new freedom

Normal in Mongolian

Unexpected birthday surprise

The time in Bilgee’s yurt camp comes to an end

Got away with a bruise

Odor symbiosis for which we Western Europeans are not made

The revenge of the little brook

Killed the Mongolian way

Insight into the path to your own self

Another technical failure and storm

Aching limbs and heat

Taagii our translator has to go

Fraud and the hussar play

Some never get their collar full

Everything revolves around money

Expensive work ethic

Expensive work ethic

Horror in the slaughterhouse

Hooray we have our visa

Missing cables and software that drive you crazy

Visas, parcels, begging children and Mormons

Tsam dance, shamanistic traditions, masks and gods

Dusty air, no hot water, crock pot to help

Important signature and collection of documents

Set up our mobile satellite transmission

Meet our future companion Ulzii

A journey supported by helping hands

The most elaborate preparation of our travel life so far

Luxury ? Opposites – Survival

Under difficult conditions

Weather is on our side

Camp of the secret past

Mountains are getting higher and higher

Fantastically beautiful country

Winter has set in

Granddaughter of the last emperor

Familiarization

They then usually want to beat each other

In the land of Genghis Kahn

On the road with God

The more precisely you plan, the more likely you are to be hit by chance…

Don’t waste energy on the past

Wonderful surprise

Tanja’s birthday

Abrupt end to the journey?

A beautiful day

Only two minutes

Heroes of the rails

Legendary railroad line on the holy sea

Bicycles overboard?

In our log cabin on the Baikal

The island on the island

At the fang cape

Enchanting steppe and labor camps

Travel organization

By the holy sea

Baikal, the father of all lakes

Irkutsk, the capital of Siberia

A day like a week

1000 kilometers of South Siberian Mountains

Listen to your feelings!

Priests and holy water

In the land of the Buryats

Visiting a Siberian family

Thunderstorm escape

Roast Handles – Camp

False statement

Merciless gravel and mountains

On the road in the taiga

Unexpected surprise

Hospitality as a matter of course

Trees are living beings!

Sweet voices call

Place of the dragon

A difficult farewell, mountains, mud and rain

Diary update causes difficulties

God, the cosmos or Mother Earth

Centuries of experiences stored

Dadja and Russian banya

Excursion to the taiga

Destroyed data and the happiness of life

Leap into the other world

Final spurt before the next stage

The beggar woman and another surprise!

Krasnoyarsk and helpers sent from heaven again

The decision is taken from us!

Eternal wet bodies

Tomsk, one of the oldest cities in Siberia

Wedding anniversary!

Low-flying carpet of clouds

Everything under water

The deceived shepherd

Thank you for so many congratulations

Sharing a piece of life

On the largest river system in Asia

Cemetery water to drink

Ten thousand kilometer day

Firewood for the winter, whatever the consequences?

Quiet, happy birthday

Attention! New pictures in the diary!

Green vein grown!

Great commitment from our sponsors

Zombies or are they human creatures after all?

Deeper and deeper

Thunderstorms or even a hurricane?

Steppe mountains

Moschna? Or today I’m cooking horse!

From a fantasy book?

Exhaust fumes, traffic madness and high concentration

Farewell to Marat and his family

Borovoye nature reserve

Kazakh model casting

A guest of the former mayor

The police officer Marat

Romance, happiness and snakes

Hahn missed the boat

Unexpected water shortage!

In the center of Garden Eden

ATTENTION! NOW PICTURES IN THE DIARY!

Old truck leaf spring as retaining bracket

1001 nights or listening to your gut feeling

Theft or accident? Radioactive contamination!

Johann’s story

The Volga German Ivan

All gone! All dead! Died of tuberculosis!

No opportunity for a break!

Water, the most important foodstuff for all the earth’s inhabitants!

Continuous rain and plummeting temperatures

How privileged we are!

Do baboons have to suffer?

Today is Primavera Day or this is a story for girls

Further than we thought!

Border between Europe and Asia!

Urals in sight!

A pleasant day!

Dust – holes – headwind!

Water supplies are not enough!

Tactics to defy the wind!

Desperate! Mother Earth speaks up!

It’s not just the wind against us!

From 10 degrees to 40 degrees overnight!

World end jump!

A wonderful and interesting day of cycling!

ATMs, unwilling computers and high fees

Wind, rain and sore bottoms

There they are again!

First day on the road

Bicycle, trailer, load and body must work together!

Alexei the mad shoveler

As always, the days fly by.

Audience with Matron Johanna

Setting off on the Trans-East Expedition Stage 3

Plans and imminent departure

Journey home for the winter break

Everyone is able to surf the wave of positive energy

Monastery as a stage destination

Shortly before the stage finish

A day like a gift

Is that the limit of what is possible?

Start of winter

Back on the Volga

Into the darkness

Attention new pictures in the diary!

THE GREEN VEIN CONTINUES TO GROW

Swap your old clothes for knitted socks and a housecoat!

Volgograd, former Stalingrad

A long way to go

The wind, a fantastic trainer

1000 kilometers against the east wind

Hospitality that can hardly be explained in words

Traffic junction around Rostov-on-Don

Keep going, keep going, keep going, just don’t give up!

Extreme east wind

First contact with Russian authorities

Fog and desolation

Creepy cellar and rabies

Like a seagull over the Sea of Azov

Between the seas

Lonely accommodation

THE GREEN VEIN IS GROWING

Different than expected

Many thanks to our sponsors

The Crimean peninsula’s turbulent past

The coarse pitch flies by below me

Cold thundershowers and headwinds

Tailwind , desolation and garbage

Cycling on the highway

Germany and Ukraine are friends

Farewell to Luda

Invited by drunks. Kowtowing to the doctor

Tanja’s birthday

Relaxing with Luda

Almost there and then?

Borders and a nod from Transnistria

There is no death

Rainy departure

Who determines the schedule?

Days in the monastery

Goat and sheep pens of the monastery

Thank you for the gift of being a guest in such a place

The ancient rock monasteries of Butuceni

Conversations with the priest Father Andrew

Hot. Broken fridge

Trapped in the mountains

In the maw of the dragon

Tanja’s thoughts

Moldova within reach

A day that is worth living

Involuntary dinner

If you’re not panting up the mountain, you’re not sitting here

Natural paradise Danube Delta

Money, cigarettes and in the stronghold of thieves?

As in times gone by

From zero to one hundred and twelve

Stay at the Black Sea / Further planning

Arrival at the Black Sea

Hills without end

The first hard day

Bicycles not allowed

Which route to the Black Sea?

Gifts for the poor

Obligatory training fee

Disfigured monster

Room, non-exclusive

A wonderful day at the fishing lodge

Second day in paradise

On the road again

A dream comes true

Epilogue, summary, further plans!

The sun is shining again for me too

Second birthday

The decision has been made

The day that decides my future

Have an operation!

Severe slipped disc

I feel like I’ve just escaped from a horde of bloodthirsty hyenas.

With blue lights to the hospital. Blood on the wall

What if I just collapse in a lonely place?

A nightmare becomes reality! Thoughts of death arise!

Forging plans, snooping street children

Former splendor! Dangerous photography!

Accident! Interruption of the Trans-East Expedition – Part 2

Fall with unexpected consequences

Like in a movie

You believed in yourself and will be rewarded!

Light at the end of the tunnel?

Corrupt officials! Bandits robbing the train

THANK YOU! More plans! Summary!

Miss the days under the stars! Fair distribution!

Farewell to a golden fall

Fantastic accommodation on the Danube

Figures mutating in the darkness

Hotel Dracula 1

Mountains, cloudburst, thieving Sinti

Breathtakingly beautiful riverside road

What is there to laugh about?

Lousy trucker accommodation

The dance teacher Davor Dulic. 100 kilometers headwind

Serbia welcomes us with open arms. Wow! Wow! The drum shakes

Hospitality. In a wet tent at the entrance to the village?

Employees open their hearts

Hungarian television

I feel like a walrus

As if conjured out of a hat

The most charming landscapes! Deadly black rubber!

Everything will pass, even the pain!

Wet and cold showers

Motivation killer

Close to the border

Cheering the wave of joy into the sky

Relief for the muscles

Center of a world empire, world-class exhibition

Camel drive in the mountains, Roar of the lion, Unleashed power

Camel riding school

Treasure chest of experiences

Is the black sea calling us?

Proud of my friend

Tanja’s birthday

Dream landscape, dream weather, big muscles

I feel like a little rascal

Thanks for the emails! Hungry floods! The first bed

Imagine a golden egg!

Flaring up dialogues with Mother Earth?

Continuous rain

Liquid manure splash

Satisfied with our performance

They are not going to Burma but to a mud bath!

What should I write?

Updates and improvements to the wheel technology

Exhilarating descent

Paradise shores

Long live the camping vacation!

A sun-drenched morning

Critical mass reached on the third day!

Do they even know where Burma is?

Fiction becomes reality

Explanation of the great journey

Foreword: Unknown, dangerous Russia?

Lupine Lightning System GmbH

Brettschneider mosquito nets

ALUTEC MUNICH GmbH

PARACELSUS drs. Erwin Weijnen

HONG KONG 1985 / 1986 / 1995

Mongolia – Wild freedom!

CYCLING ADVENTURE FROM GERMANY TO MONGOLIA

Trans-East Expedition Stage 2

Land of the Wind – Trans-East Expedition Stage 3

On the road on Siberian soil – Trans-East Expedition Stage 4

RED EARTH EXPEDITION

ORIGINAL PEOPLES OF THIS EARTH

In the shadow of dusk

In the circle of faces

Adventure you can touch

INDONESIA, BALI, LOMBOK 1985 / 1986 / 1999

PHILIPPINES 1985 / 1986

INDONESIA, JAVA, KOMODO 1985 / 1986

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