Jinji Sadan

back to ROME

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.

my Naor(the prince of Rome)

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.

sima and hertzel

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.

amit in Florance

a dead end....

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.

guy and gali in Beijing

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.

fixing Emuna

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.

remind you to smile

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

my friends in the bike shop in urumqi

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.

back to the same place that i stopped in the desert

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

The things that I had in my eyes and my mind will be hard to put in one post will be hard.

After more then a month in china I can say that it’s make me learning my limits.

Leaving the great city of kashgar was hard for me, I meet good people and sight that will never get out of my memory : a yak slaughter in the middle of a street full of people in front of shoes store and a small place to eat was a little harsh even for my eyes.

crazy life...

a commercial to mobile phones: always stay connected...

The crazy food market that you can eat almost everything that the cow and the goat can offer you and amazing hostel with nice travelers to charge my mind before the solitude of the desert.

with Amy 1 and 2 ( Briony & Melanie)

It’s always hard to leave a place after you get to know friends that you will not see again in life (most of them) and to get back to a journey mind and “walk the talk not only talk the talk”

Kashgar is going to my favorite cities list.

The main problem in cycling in china is communication:

dont cry you baby!!!

With the people its hard to explain what I want and I it remind me Africa.

Also communication from the “outside world” is hard because there are not many places with internet in the desert and in most of them I am not allowed to use the internet….

But this is china and I don’t try to understand this enigma.

The desert was like what I expected a vast area of dunes and nothing to see for days and days.

I will not tell you that the Talamakan desert in a good place to cycle if you come especially to see china on a bike but like I always say that in order to get to somewhere you need to cross the no where.

fixing a tire before going to sleep

The road for the giant wall in china in going via the desert and if I cant handle that I will stay in my house and watch national geographic and will tell to myself ” one day one day…”

hiding from the wind

This desert is so big the biggest desert that I crossed yet and it will be future in the next months, the chine’s built good roads and that’s is a small comfort, the wind is mostly a head wind so everyday I am working hard to get to my destination of the day and most of the time is in the middle of no where.

Most of the people look more like the people in central Asia and they eat a lot of goat and every where you can get goat “take away”.

"some goat from the road?"

There are not many cities on the road but it’s not like the desert in Kazakhstan her every 70 km you got a place to eat and get some water.

I was always dirty and even the locals look at me like I am a nomad, a stinky one… but I call it “smell of success”.

After more then a 3 years on the road in crazy places I can say that I saw almost everything but china add every day another crazy story:

In the middle of no where I saw a motor bike with only 2 people on it and they stop next to me start to shout and run to the desert after something…

Of course I stopped and went to see what this crazy people scream of.

The chase after lizards like the lizards owes them money from them.

After 5 minutes of running they got 2 lizards and they smile a victory smile.

victory is won

I don’t know what they going to do with the lizards but maybe that why the soup her taste different…

In most of the world people will run away from the lizards but her the other way around, her the people run after lizards…

The best moments of the day are in the end of it, when I am doing starching and watching the sunset after a long day in the desert this is the only moment of rest for me.

the sun in the dust

I have to write you all the right now I am in totally different place then the places that I tell you about but I will tell you how good and crazy the world can be.

clean me pleas

Crazy in normal way

This is china.

“Wake up and start to dream”

Roei “jinji” Sadan

Urumchi

Xinjiang

China

Asia

the world