Jinji Sadan

the Pamirs highway to enter china was a chapter to remember.

china was really close (air distance ) but because there is no border crossing from Tajikistan to china i needed to enter Kyrgyzstan for some days and the road was “very interesting”…

the road is very high almost always above 4000m and i needed to crossed to mountan passes in 4600m and 4300m but i really love it, to climb and to feel alive its my way.

the road was bad and some river crossing but once it was a special place the road ended where the bridge was and i can see the other side of the road but between use there is a 10 meters of a river that i needed to cross but carefully first alone with no bags or the bike , just to see where is more safer to cross without be a part of the river for some time…

i needed to cross it for 3 times until i was safe and cold with the bike and the bags on the other side of the road, i was lucky to cross the river in the early morning when the snow and the ice in the mountain didn’t melt it and so the river was safe (more or less) to cross.

in the first pass i had flash back from south America and the Andes when i needed to stop every 2km just to rest and bring my breathing to a normal rhythm.

going up

i celebrated the high moment on the pass with some sardines in a can and some bread it was happy moment and then was a descending to a lake name karakul lake that’s is one of the highest lakes in the world in the altitude of 4300m high, beautiful place with yaks and nomads near it.

kara kul lake

the wind was cold and strong in the afternoon so i camp in a shade from the crazy wing for a night without so much oxygen and sleep but that’s the mountain and if i start to complain on the oxygen in the high mountains i will sound like a nomad in the Sahara desert complaining about the crazy sun….

another pass in 4300m and a stupid border crossing in the Tajikistan side, when there is a calculator in a border crossing its mean the they will want a bribe for nothing but i knew this and told them that i am only a stinky cyclist without a job or life so they let me go with a smile…

the kyrgi side was much better and i enter this nice country, much greener then tajikistan and everywhere there is yaks and yurts.

yak yak yak

i only spend 2 days in this country but felt that i missed a lot but i cant see everything and china was calling me.

to chinaaaaaaaaaaaaa

in the last 3 weeks i was happy without Internet and connection to the real world, your world,and i needed the quite and to listen to the mountains they told me many things the a knew and forgot and i didn’t care whats going on in the “real” world as long as i crossing my world with emuna.

this is life

i was happy to use a gift from my friend liron petrushka that got me the spot device that my friends and family knew that i am OK with my progress in this wild places it was useful and i could be in quite to know that my mom is not climbing the walls in Israel when  i am climbing the mountains of the world.

the road to the Irkeshtam pass was nice with interesting sights like you can see her:

dont drink and drive

and it was a study climb until the pass to one of the most memorial moments in my journey:

in the altitude of 3500m in the 1111 day in the journey i celebrated not only entering china but also the 50000 km in the journey!!!

i stoped to cycle kiss and dance with emuna (yes i know that its not normal but i will not be her without her or if i was normal…) and celebrated this magice minute.

i wish you were her.

50000 km!!! wish you were her

that’s it behind me its central Asia with many places and kilometers of desert and mountains that i crossed and now in front of me is the enigma of my journey the big red giant.

ready or not china her i come just pleas don’t eat me….

wake up and start to dream

roei ” jinji” sadan

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