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"Naan" is the traditional Uyghur and central asian bread.
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One of the many fake "yurta" villages. These places have been created to accommodate thousands of chinese tourists that want to experience a bit of the nomadic life of central asian countries.
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Chinese are crazy about flowers that's why they can not resist taking a selfie in a small flower field by the road.
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Chinese are crazy about flowers that's why they can not resist taking a selfie in a small flower field by the road.
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Chinese are crazy about flowers that's why they can not resist taking a selfie in a small flower field by the road.
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Chinese are crazy about flowers that's why they can not resist taking a selfie in a small flower field by the road.
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One of the many fake "yurta" villages. These places have been created to accommodate thousands of chinese tourists that want to experience a bit of the nomadic life of central asian countries.
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One of the many fake "yurta" villages. These places have been created to accommodate thousands of chinese tourists that want to experience a bit of the nomadic life of central asian countries.
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In return of a selfie two girls donated me these beautiful flowers!
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Alpine ascent in Xinjiang mountains that are still part of the immense Tien Shan range.
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Having a nice rest under an amazing tree. Here we felt a bit back home,in our beloved Alps!
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Having a nice rest under an amazing tree. Here we felt a bit back home,in our beloved Alps!
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A stall selling any kind of dry mushrooms!
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A stall selling any kind of dry mushrooms!
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Alpine landscape over Tien Shan mountains.
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Our fresh alpine camp site.
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Washing face in the refreshing (actually very cold) water stream.
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Yurta restaurants for the thousands of chinese tourists that gather on these mountains every weekend, to escape the desert heat.
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Climbing up our first chinese pass on the Tien Shan mountains.
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Water stream coming from the top of the pass.
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Most people like to come up here on their cars, that's why they are so surprised to see us cycling!
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Stunning road climbing up the pass at over 2000 meters.
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Stunning road climbing up the pass at over 2000 meters.
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We made it to the top! This is our first encounter with buddhism. On the top of the pass there's an altar of prayer.
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Offerings to spirits or just rubbish?
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Cycling on the plateau at more than 2000 meters. Although invisible there was a very strong wind!
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Some parts of the road were still under construction, trucks and cars were covering us with a thick layer of sand!
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One of the last night in the thin air of Tien Shan mountains.
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Daniele acting as a movie star!
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On the top of the second pass, heavy storm on the way!
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Chinese taking picture of everything.
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A lot of people made it to the top..but by car! Still they are taking thousands of selfie as if they had to struggle to reach the pass!
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Long descent.
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Towards the third and last pass on the Tien Shan mountains. Suddenly the perfect asphalted road turns into a sandy rocky dirty track!
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No wind in the valley so the sand raised by trucks and cars fill the air.
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Daniele's shoe covered by sand.
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Daniele's beard covered by sand.
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Luckily we find a very nice spot for camping.
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Having breakfast, getting ready to face the last stretch of bad road and our third pass.
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Cycling towards the third pass, will the dirt track end?
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Everything is covered by sand.
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What are these antennas for?
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The day is turning late and still we have to ascent the pass.
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The dirty truck has ended, now a perfect asphalted road leads to the top.
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Fractals on road fence.
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Almost at the top. A strong wind accompany us and due the many switchbacks it is sometimes at the back and sometimes at the front!
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Astonishing view over the road.
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Finally at the top of the third pass. Here is where we start descending into the desert...
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Solar panels bring energy everywhere, even in the most remote areas. Still we don't understand why this crumbling house has an antenna!
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Our last night in the fresh air of mountains
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The longest ride so far.
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The highest speed reached so far.
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"Our we sure we have to go down?"
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Good bye mountains! We are now in the desert and we try to recover from the heat in the first village we encounter. People here, although it is horribly hot, are smily and welcoming.
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While resting under a tree a young couple gives us this box full of sweet.
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Thanks to these young girls I recover from the shocking heat.
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Our first uyghur home made dinner
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Enjoy a slice?
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The night in Toksun has been horribly hot, at 5 o'clock we are already ready to ride!
