Jinji Sadan

 

Going out from the desert to another desert by crossing high mountains in this time of the year in this area in china means one thing:

Its going to be fucking cold (excuse me for the language but I need to make a point here…).

If it was freezing cold in the night already you need only to imagine how cold it was up there. I did more then 2000km in the last month and in this trine it’s a lot maybe too much but I need /want to finish Asia on my schedule and winter is knocking on my tent.

The road was in good condition and the climb was gentle but it was cold nights…

The days are getting shorter and shorter so I don’t have  much time to stop and rest like I should during the day and I need to start early to begin “my day in the office “.

 

In one truck stop that I stopped to get some lunch and to get more food to warm for dinner the locals ask me where I am going (in Chinese of course) and we start to have a interesting conversion in sign language we talked with the hands and shouting to each other because like every 3^rd world country the locals think that if they will shout what they want to say to me I will understand…

  You needed to see this small nice guy.

In acting he told me that there is ice on the road another 20km and its very dangerous because the big trucks are loosing control on the ice…

In that moment I thought that he should get an Oscar nominated.

 ”it’s very cold in the night up there that you will die sleeping out side in your tent”

All of this with waving hands, jumping and making sound of dead man…

 

Now I am sure he is going to win this Oscar.

“This place got to be the Chinese version of Hollywood” I said  to myself.  

I was really tired and I did all ready 90km of climbing (gentle climb) so he convinced me to stay in a near truck “hotel” in a warm bed.

 The room was dirty but it was warm so I think that it worth every dollar (the all two of them … ).

 I got some sleep (the chine’s truckers can be very noisy) and in the morning went to say good bye to the local Denzel Washington and start to climb again.

One day I will show you the video of this actor…

 

It was magic day, I was so happy to see snow capped mountains after 2 month in a desert.

The big mountains are like my best friends- I just need to see or hear them and I got power for months.

 I could imagine my future and remember my past much more clearly in the mountains.

 

The pass was a small, no more then 3500m, I wish that my GPS broke after 3 years of use so I cant tell how high it exactly was but from my map I knew that it was only above 3000m, not so high but very cold.

Like any other good actor also my Chinese friend knew how to exaggerate and it wasn’t that much ice on the road not so dangerous place.

 

They road down was very fast and I got to the city of wuwei and like every Chinese city it’s quit big and with interesting gates and way of life.

I even saw a new way to use a bicycle:

Deliver fresh goats skin.

 

 

From the city of wuwei to the city of Yinchuan it was another 500km so I will tell you about this crazy day’s letter because I need to rest now.

 

Its cold but it will be colder.

Until we freeze again.

 

Roei “jinji” sadan

 

Yinchuan

Province of ningxia

China

Asia

The world.

 

  

 

Going back to china was harder then going out… I needed to use my good contacts in the Israeli embassy in Beijing to get me an invention that I could get a 3 months visa and not only one month( no way to do 4000km in a month in china) and my friend guy kivetz did good work and I could have the important visa.
at list i could enjoy this place and my good friends.

Rome was amazing with my childhood friends, Naor and Liat; I also meet my cousin Sima and Hertzel so I enjoy the meeting and was busy in this really amazing city.

Barcelona is my favorite city in the world but Rome in the most beautiful.
i also did a short trip to Florance to see this amazing city and to see my friend Amit and he showed me the nice city.

The flights back to china were ok but the only problem is that my bug got to urumuqi a day latter… (Maybe he wanted to stay in Beijing and not doing this road again on a bike) the last flight to urumuqi was weird because I knew that this 4 hours going west on a plain will be 2 months on a bicycle…
I know that in the end of November I will take a part in an Israeli week in the capital of Sichuan province, the city of chengdu, its going to be really big and nice event so I am honored to take a part in this week, the Israeli embassy doing wonderful things here and they thing big like my journey.

So if you are in the area of Sichuan in the last week of November give me a call and you are welcome to join us (or its better to send me a mail…).
After the flights I was happy to see that emuna(my bike) is ok and nothing happen to my stuff and I brought emuna some gifts new tires and parts that I bought in Europe that she will be stronger to the future.

Maybe because of the jetlag or it’s because all the emotions that I had in the last 2 weeks I am really tired and in the first night back in china I slept 11 hours!!! I don’t remember when the last time that I did it was.
I am still tired but need to go to the road.
I fix emuna and some small stuff and took a 6 hours bus to the place that I stopped to cycle 20 days ago.
There is internet her so I am using it to write you this post before going back to the road.
Show must go on.

Going back to the no where in the desert in china was (and still) little weird for me, yes, I came to a place that I have been and I knew before but the extreme different from Barcelona and Rome to the talamakan desert is making the toll…
It’s not good or bad it’s just different

That’s a challenge that I knew that I will need to deal with when I told my friends in Eden that I will come to meet them.

And this post will be on the challenges in my journey.
Challenge is one of the things that drive me to my dream.
Sometimes if something is too easy I am not doing it and I like to challenge myself.

In this journey I challenged my body and my mind and even challenge my heart and this is a part of the never ending learning on my self and on the world that I am crossing.

I don’t competing with no one only with myself and the challenge is the thing the growing me as a person and as adventure.

After this meeting in Europe I am challenged myself to finish this journey in the best way that I can.
In basketball we say that it doesn’t matter who is starting the game it’s more important to ask who is finish the game.

I know and understand that there is a chance that challenge and my dreams will kill me one day but its make me feel alive.

When was the last time that you challenge yourself?

Love you all
Roei “jinji” sadan
Back to the desert
Talamakan
China
Asia
The world