Jinji Sadan

My life is not very boring, that’s I know for years but the last week was something that challenged all my limits  in a good way…

Many people contact me and ask me how can I afford this journey , who is paying for my pasta and rice???

before getting the plan to Europe

I have to say that meeting with sponsors is harder then you think even for this journey.

I can tell you that after 3 years in the road this journey is the biggest journey that ever done buy Israeli( pleas don’t think that I want to show off or need the competition with others in order to move my self) I am humble man but this journey is big and I have to give him all the respect that he deserved.

I knew that from the beginning but it was hard to get other people to believe in my dream and more important believe in me..

i can tell you that this journey cost money that I cant afford in this time of my life , after finish Africa and before the Europe I went to Israel for a short visit to and I was happy and honored to meet the president of eden group in Israel and Europe, mr raanan zilberman, and show him my journey with photos and numbers but the most important for me is to show him myself , my heart and my eyes and that more important then anything.

Me and Eden (mey eden in Hebrew) are long time friends and I needed to use my contacts and luck to meet Raanan.

In zen teaching they say:

“when the student is ready the teacher will come”

with my friend Raanan Zilberman

And after 3 continents I was ready for them to come to my journey and also to dream with open eyes.

Raanan

Eden support me in this journey and I was envited buy raanan to come to Barcelona to meet all the Managing Director  of the company in Europe and Israel, to showed them what I am doing.

I was in the middle of no where in the desert of china and took 3 long flights (with a short visit in Beijing meeting guy from the embassy of Israel and my friend noga).

with noga in Beijing

After long way I got to Barcelona my favorite city in the world and for 3 days was still in shock from this fast change, one night I am in my tent in a sand storm and the other night I am sleeping in 4 stars hotel…

i was happy to see the faces behind my back wind and to give them my thanks and my dreams, I had a lecture to present our journey ,that’s not the first or last time that I am talking with a big crowd but this time it was different because of this people I am her and that why my heart pulse was like when I climb the high Andy’s mountains…

meet the wind behind my back

we had good time , they come to work but I had time to rest and enjoy this amazing city, I went to see Barcelona football club in a match and we went to see the city and eat as good as Barcelona can be.

with orit and my man in Barcelona:ANTONIO ALARCON

One night we went to a club and I was in shock to see one of my favorite athlete  in the world:

Kobe Bryant !!!

I went to him and told him how I respect his game, Raanan came to shack his hand and then he ask him if he knows Roei Sadan that cycling around the world…

Kobe gave respect for the 50000km on the road and I was in the sky….

Luck is not enough in life, you have to know what you do with it.

A day later everyone went back to his country and I stay for another night and was amazed buy the present that Raanan gave me:

A amazing ticket to the basketball game of Barcelona and LA Lakers!

I DONT NEED TO TELL YOU WHO IS THIS GUY...

It’s a small dream of me to see the Lakers in a game and now another dream come true…

The breakup from my friends was hard but I knew that they are with me all the way back to Israel.

with eyal carmi in la rambla

Right know I am in Rome for doing a new visa to china and get ready to the future.

It easy to come from no where to Barcelona and Rome but its hard to get back to the talamakan desert… its another challenge in a challenging life.

And don’t think that I am complaining about it ha!

I am lucky to have Eden by my side and they are right.

my good friend: RONI NAFTALI

Soon I will be back to the bike and start again in the exactly place that I stop cycle, I have many kilometers a had of so I need to be focused on that.

Ps

In this blog I am give you my stories, my mistakes, good or bad I give you my heart and my thoughts and if you think that I did this post because I need to do a commercial  for Eden you are wrong(I didn’t even tell you what they do..) but I have to clear something here:

Because of Eden I am alone but not lonely  and you can enjoy and learn from my journey ,

if you still think that I am doing a commercial her I am inviting you to eat my dust…

Luck is not enough it’s what you do with it.

I came from love and I will ride  with love.

Roei “jinji” sadan

ROME

Italy

Soon back in china

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wow a month in the mountain of Tajikistan.

it will be hard to described it but you can imagine.

i waited long time for this ,THE part of Asia chapter.

i could skip it and go to Kazakhstan from Uzbekistan but the mountains is why i am her.

choosing the long and hard cuts in my journey is one of the most important things in it, to go to the less traveled road where not many people can experience its one of my goals.

in 4400m i have to rest sometimes

that’s why i choose to do the Pamirs highway and to add 2 long cuts to some of the most amazing places that i have ever been.

next to the wakan Vally between afghanistan and Tajikistan i cycled where Marco polo walked many years ago when this places wasn’t explored before and i cant say that it changed a lote.

the Hindu kush of

Afghanistan

it was very high and hard but i took the road to the zor kul lake where every 5 km i needed to crossed a big river and the water was really strong and cold but i felt warm in my heart.

in the last small vilage i bought food for one week :

2 kilo of rice

0.5 kilo onions

a lot of garlic (the yaks dont car about my smeal…)

bread for a week

and sea of cans of sardines  and tuna fish and optimistic mind.

a food for a week in no where

to be in this place i needed to have a “special permit” very hard to get and i didnt  have it but there is nothing that money cant buy in this places(the Beatles will say “except love…) so i pay 10$ and got my way and that’s how i moved with a fake permit and a true emuna(faith) with me, dont need more then that.

harmony

ha, and i totally forgot to tell you, my friends, that a stupid and crazy big dog taught that i am one of his girlfriends so he bite me in a nasty way so i needed to give him some kicks in  the head to change his way from my beautiful ass….

the zor kul lake was something to feel it was true harmony every day to feel my heart beating in above 4000m was something that i missed since 2 years when i have been in Bolivia.

zor kul lake

only nomads live there and the hospitality was amazing , we drink tea and eat there cows and goat meet( no frizzier in this places its ok…)  and slept with them (not in the same bed…) really nice people that have nothing in the western eye but they got a smile on there face so they got everything in my eye.

the road was bad and the rivers crossing took from me a lot of energy in  this height but the view from the mountains of the Pamirs in one side and in the other side the hindu kosh was rewarding.

i took a wrong turn in one place and the “road” finished in a lake then i knew that did a mistake but my navigation skills with a good map saved me from being frozen in the mountains of Tajikistan i wasn’t on a risk(i had enough food ) but still it not that nice to be lost in this harsh places so after crossing this lake (walking with emuna on the side of it) i want down with the vally until i saw a yurt(the amazing tent the the nomads live) and i knew that i am  ok , after a very long and hard day they saw that i am about to collapse so they gave me a shelter and food and we enjouy each other stories they gave me fish from the lake that i crossed and i gave them my tuna cans….

the yurt

for a day i have been with them to learn how they live and grow the cows and yaks they are very hard working people and all the family share the work.

in one day with this simple people i learned special  lesions one of them was that some times you can get lost but you will find yourself in the end.

some milk?

it was hard cycling but worth every sweat from my body.

now i am after it.

i got to the small village of morgab and from there i got to china but i will tell you on this crazy part later.

untill then be strong from the rivers of life and dont forget to lose your way maybe you will find yourself.

love you all

roei “jinji” sadan

kashgar

china

Asia

the world