Jinji Sadan

Another country, another continents and my last one…

I landed in the city of Dunedin in the south island after really long flight that was delayed for 4 hours and I already thought that It will be faster to go on a peddle boat… a funny story was when in the connection flight the guys moved something in the the box of the bike and the horn of Emuna was beeping (it sound like a car alarm) and they new zealandres thought more of the detraction of a bomb that about to explode so they called me in the speakers of the airport:”roei sadan come immediately to see whats going on with your box!”.

So I walk to them and they gave me a vast and we run toghter on the runway to “deactivated” the bomb…

after 5 years I meet a good friend\family of main, ran shapira, and the meeting was really great, ran living here in this amazing place and after all the stories and the photos I was happy to see what it all about and he helped me to just acclimatized to the idea that I am now in lord of the rings land.

great time with Ran

We climbed the steepest street in the world and we most of the time just enjoy life.

For me it is time to go, I feel the butterflies in my stomach before starting the another continent, we looked at maps and planed the next 2 months route but maps are only maps and I am the one that need to make the maps a reality.

It was hard to break again from a good friend but I know that we will meet in 6 months in Israel…

working on my tan with new friends in new zealand

a Israeli guy that wanted to cycle in new zealand contacted me I after I learned him (a journey on the road its like a relationship and you don’t want to start something with the wrong person ) I sensed that we have to chemistry together so we started to cycle together and to see new zealand in a share view.

This country is very calm and every where you look you see the green hills with the white dots (ship) on them.

like in every new continent I am still thinking about the last one and every thing look so different then asia and china…

I have rust on my body but after a 5 days on the road I fell strong again and my body feel relaxed when he is working all the day and he gets his amount of adrenalin the he used to have in the last years.

Some say that it like drugs but at list its good drugs.

I knew that new cycle in new zealand will not push my phisical limits but I was surprise to to climb a short but steep climb, that took us 3 hours and to see that this is the highest pass in new zealand … I hope that it will not always feel like a vacation and we will earn our rest in the night.

after the pass

etamar is new to the world of cycling in the world(he did many mountain cycling in Israel) so he got many things to learn but he got the right attitude of wanted to learn and to be more efficient on the road.

the chef -Etamar

We cycled on a cycling rout “the otago rail train route” and every day we camping and enjoying each other cooking and the Israeli coffee in the morning and maybe its because that I cycled in china where I don’t have no one to share the view and the thought of the road I was so happy to be with a friend that can give another points to your view.

The land is so beautiful and IF the weather is with you its a heaven for cyclists but if its raining hard it more feel like a hell on a bike but together hell its a little less harder to cross.

touching the sky

With the help to the local Israeli embassy a local news paper contact me and we did we meet. There is riots all over the world but her in new zealand I found myself in the FRONT page on the new paper, a billion ship cant go wrong…

billion ship cant go wrong

there is more to write but we will keep to the future I just want to keep on going and to create more smiles in the world.

world hold on

Until next time

lord of the rim

graymouth

south island

new zealand

the world

I waited for this day for a long time.

Couple of days ago (15.12.10) I accomplished one of the biggest achievements and I am still don’t believe that I did that and that I brought that day to a reality dream.

When I fantasies about my last day cycling in Asia I could not imagine it really happen to me.

It was cold, so cold that the sweat layer between my clothing became ice on my body and even the most beautiful girls here will want to have a beard like my beard to help that against the shivering winds.

I will not write many words in this post, photos (and videos soon) will say everything and I really tired from this entire last chapter and really need a rest.

“He who has not climbed the Great wall is not a true man” Mao Zedong, the great leader of china said.

So I wonder what he will say about a man the cycling on the great wall?!…

Every km that I did and every drop of sweat was worth this feeling.

Me and Emuna (the bike) alone on the great wall in a magic moment that will go with me years and years.

I saw many photos of cycling and many photos of the great wall but I never saw a photo of a guy cycling on the wall so I thought that its can be the perfect combination no?

thats the way to finish a continent no?

It was 350km east of bejing where the wall meets the ocean and I could not believe that I really doing this.

This is the day that I can say and know that I finished crossing my 5^th continent and Asia was the toughest one.

I will not write a summary about Asia I have time to rest and to digest this amazing achievement.

After cycling on the wall I climbed down and walked to the sea.

I took in my hand a ball of ice a throw it to the sea ,Said  thank you for the world and now for the last continent…

This is where big starting to be huge.

Finish china!

Finished Asia!!!

Now let’s get some rest before the action start in New Zealand and Australia.

Thank you for be a part of this day.

Jinji