Cyclotourism in far east, past and present adventures.
2019-08-20 Start: 10:00 / Arrival: 19:00 Distance: 81km / Gained height 1300 hm After breakfast at the hotel in the “Sunset Restaurant” (with an nice overview on Su’An harbour) we started the section, that years ago many people had warned me about. I found it at that time quite bearable, so we were excited what this day will bring. This
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2023-10-19 Start: 11:30 / Arrival: 16:30 Distance: 47km / Gained height 174 hm Because Su’An to Xincheng is quite a demanding section, we did a half day today exploring Yilan county. Cycled along rivers on very nice bicycle infrastructure, saw many interesting plants and then went back to the pacific to chill at Ching Shui Beach, a lonesome beach. Then went
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2023-10-18 Start: 10:30 / Arrival: 18:30 Distance: 82km / Gained height 520 hm On the way to the breakfast we had a small and nice talk with an Australian couple. Breakfast itself was Japanese style and very tasty – accompanied by a beautiful view over Jiufen and down to the Pacific. Very relaxing with some old Jazz playing. Then we
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2023-10-17 Start: 10:45 / Arrival: 19:45 Distance: 81km / Gained height 720 hm Left the hotel in the morning, paid the luggage fee for our bicycle cardboxes and rode to Dadaocheng wharf as an “official” start. Cycled a little bit up the Tamsui river path to change to the Keelung river bicycle path. Both paths are amazing and a must do
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2023-10-16 A little bit of free wandering around Taipei. Went to an electronics shop I knew from my last visit, which I hoped has still got the great selection of old Taiwanese music. Unfortunately the situation changed completely – instead of loads of old Mandopop it now had more Japanese “City Pop”. Love it as well, but this is for
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2023-10-15 After having a tasty Taiwanese breakfast with eggdrop soup and vegetables, we started assembling the bicycles. This went quite smooth and took about 1h per bicycle. Gladly they didn’t get damaged on the flight, so everything is now up and running… As a reward we had a nice spicy beef noodle soup in a cosy place around the corner.
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2023-10-14/15 Flight Transfer to the airport was easy and smooth, as we only had to take a short taxi trip from near the airport. Flight took with 13h a little bit longer than usual, due to the unfortunate geopolitical situation, but it was still bearable with the upcoming trip in our minds. The food from Michelin star restaurant “Yang Ming
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Coming soon – we are visiting Taiwan to cycle around the beautiful island. Route is now set roughly.
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Arriving in Sapporo Day 00 – Sapporo – Trip and arrival Day 01 – Sapporo – Getting the bicycles ready Cycling Stage 1: To Kushiro Overview of stage. 9 days of cycling to Kushiro until taking a rest. Stage 1.1: Otaru und Lake Tōya First part of cycling. Started of with a rainy day to the lovely town
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2019-09-17 Sapporo / Chitose / Haneda / Düsseldorf / Cologne. Long way. Got up early at 4:00 AM, incredible sunrise. Had managed to organize some private taxi, with friends we had made before. Got to know some interesting stories about western china. At the counter everything went well, no complaints about the cardboards with the bicycles weighting around ~25kg and
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