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We cycled from Germany through 20 countries to Tajikistan and
took you with us on our trip around the world in 20 videos, but this video shows the most incredible
and challenging stage of our journey. We are in Ghudara in one of the most
remote places in the world you don't have to google it, it's here in the middle of nowhere,
it's four days of driving for us outside of civilization to the next village, but in an incredible
mountain backdrop, sometimes over 4000 m high, we're on the tour of our lives.
Hans has had here, of all places, in the last few days 40° Fever and he’s not quite fit yet but we're trying our luck
So things are finally moving on, but I'm not sure if it's a good decision to continue driving today.
I don't feel quite like it yet... it's kind of 50/50 Decision but at some point we to move on,
it's really a hard road. Franzy actually needs me 100% but today I need me 100%.
I'm really excited about where we'll be tonight and the next nights and the next few days,
what's going to happen to us now . First mountain completed 1 km in 40 minutes. Apart from the fact
that being sick really sucks, I long for a challenge like this and it's
not just stupid talk, I'm really serious about it, I believe in situations or for example today or
the next few days where you don't know how to manage it we can grow
We know that a bad decision in this area can be really dangerous because
no one can help us here. That's why we wanted to decide on the way today whether we
should continue driving or turn back. The first piece was really challenging, but
now it's getting better and there are always such beautiful oases here. To be honest, I hate it
sometimes when Hans starts talking about
'finally it's a challenge that allows you to grow' and so on because I think for myself For me, every day is
a challenge and if it's challenging for him then of course it's
already way over the limit for me . He just said, 'hey Franzy, let's just stay positive,
just don't say anything bad anymore, don't think anything bad anymore' and yes, let's try that
now and I've been feeling much better since then and we'll manage it somehow! Let's see
how long I can stay motivated like this. what a nice place for a lunch break. after 7 km. But we
also started late. yes, we started really late. 30km would be an optimal goal today because then...
no, we won't tell you. tomorrow - that's absolutely sick, let's see what's waiting for us tomorrow.
Look at those white glaciers everywhere. I'm telling you, there's so much energy this places give us
I think the place here is flooded every now and then, luckily it's
not really flooded today, but it's enough. can this still
be called cycling? To be honest, I'm wondering if we missed a river crossing here or something
so we should have gone to the other side. I have no idea, did we
miss a river crossing? really because huh!? the Bartang Valley is feared for its many
and large river crossings but we are lucky the water level is currently very low
hey what is that? That looks like a huge mudslide that
came down from up there, right? but so much down to the river? That's so strange because the bushes are still growing everywhere here,
these little ones, but nothing grows there anymore, that means there's really been a huge avalanche,
in any case, our path is no longer passable, holy,
look at what came down there The water
is probably drinkable but we
still use a water filter, we'd rather be on the safe side,
it looks kind of
like sea buckthorn. Well, of course I won't try it now, I don't feel like dying here in the
middle of nowhere, if we had somehow internet we could google it. Because it
really looks like that or am I completely wrong? I only know the picture of the juice box. Me too!
one of the most beautiful places, if not the most beautiful place I've ever been, because it
also feels like you fought for it, you know? Yeah! Of course I have
flown to some places... e.g. Cambodia was really nice but coming here
where almost no one gets there, I'll say, I don't know, it just feels so cool,
we're just not making any progress. So we stop, I don't know, for every 500 m
and have to take it in first. the jaw is constantly down. just jamming.
That's not going well,
no! Dude
, we're here at the shepherd's house. Someone
told us that there is a wall here from the old shepherd's house and there is also
a small windbreak up there for stranded exotics like us, but I think we
are camping somewhere in the meadow here, that would only be if there is a real storm, which is what happens a lot here,
so now there's another delicious soup.
Our petrol stove is not working properly, it always turns off, so we already suspected that
at some point on the trip it wouldn't work anymore and it's really difficult to repair it,
but now is really a bad time because there are no grocery stores here. We have to
cook for the next few days, we only have stuff left that needs to be cooked... it turns
off as soon as you pump or what? No, sometimes it just switches off and then I shake it a little
and then it comes on again. There seems to be a blockage somewhere. Oh damn, it really
couldn't be worse. Crap hey. I'll have to get to it tomorrow. We do
n't have internet either... I have operating instructions with me, but will I be
able to do it with them? Oh man, we can cook with wood. true. but from tomorrow we will be
at 4000 m there will be no more trees. it does not work anymore. but has already
cooked. Our tent is down there and here is this windshield
, I call it a little shelter. really cool if we had known that sooner, I think we might even have
pitched the tent here, small fire pit, wooden roof and really cool, above all, you don't notice any breeze at all,
you hear it but you don't feel it. Down on the meadow is also nice. It was really
a successful and beautiful day. I actually didn't expect it, I was super
unmotivated the first 3 kilometers where it took us so long and it was so rocky. The
first 3 km were really damn hard and I wasn't feeling well even then, but it improved as
the day went on. Most of it really just comes down to what's going on in your head.
I notice this so much in myself. I'm often like, 'Oh, I'm not motivated and how am I supposed
to do that? and I can't do something like that' I often have these thoughts and
Hans somehow always tries to change my mind and sometimes he succeeds and
when he succeeds, it really doesn't matter how strenuous the day is, I laugh all day
and if I approach it with the attitude that everything sucks anyway, then nothing works. How you feel depends 90%
on your head. That's just really a weapon, but the tables can also turn.
Good morning, it's cold as hell but incredibly beautiful here as the glaciers
are lit up. Today is day X today is gling to be really challenging
we have to push the bikes for about 5km up the mountain. We have huge respect.
so breakfast the
last reserves of bread. This is rock-hard bread, I don't know why it was only baked yesterday
. I have no idea, it's around freezing point right now... Nutella and it's delicious
I'm looking forward to it. Really great jam as a farewell present from Hamros (our host).
Let's get ready to push!
And this with two bikes…. Oh dear... oh shit
it's all ok? I'm still alive. You are still alive? Really crazy, so I just
Pushed myself up while standing, but I have no idea if that was a good idea. I'm going to continue in the bend.
Is it also steep there? No, that's fine, but up there we have to push again
Franzy like this: 'Look there! There's a red bird' I thought she was seeing a snow leopard because there
are still a few of them so it's one of the last reservoirs where they still exist and in the village where we were they
explained to us that they see one every now and then When they get old the animals
rather go down to the village and hunt donkeys. is easy prey, that's why they have so
many dogs there, because the dogs then attack the snow leopards.
yes, press, press, press, yes, yes!
Wow, be careful.
And break. What? do you notice that I'm pushing? Yes , I felt dizzy all the time when I drive
a short distance
and I'm extremely hungry. Now we have to
take a little break and then we'll be able to do the last part, right Hans?
a few nuts, a bit of energy and then we move on.
Hans must really love torturing himself when he drives up here, wow,
it's not that easy to drive at 3700m anymore
Franzy, we've done it, now it's still slightly uphill.
Was that a sick thing? Yes
I'll briefly show you the street where we
are. It was a crazy thing. We really wanted to do it on our own at all costs and yes, I
wasn't sure that Franzy could manage it and now with my state of health
Fortunately, it has now been improved again. Now I stand up here. I could cry.
This is really the crown of the Pamir Highway that we have planned,
come here, come here.
I can't quite believe we really did it. We are now 3800 m high, I wasn't even that high on foot. Dude,
since we've been on the road here in this Bartang Valley and some people have told us how hard this
climb is, I've always had my thoughts here and sometimes I was desperate
when even small sections have broken me down in some way. wow, it's really nice, really
motivating to be up here now and have really achieved that and now it feels
really free because this burden is lifted, that it will come at some point.
you have quite a blank expression on your face. I'm exhausted. I'm also really tired, I
can't anymore, but now it's flat
until we get to the next stream and then we take a break to munch on something
. Very nice there's a river down there, which means we can cook or at least have enough water for ourselves. That's where we're going now. these rare descents here are incredibly beautiful
wow what's going on here what's going on here
every little stream becomes more and more important to us the higher we go
Drinking water is the most valuable thing we have and there aren't that many options for filling it up anymore,
dude, what's that for? a straight campsite? Yes. I thought we'd take a lunch break, it's not quite as sheltered from the wind, but..
okay, let's stay here. Wind-protected lunch spot. goodnight
, well I'll tell you like it is, we're so happy to have this gravel road, it finally feels like a gravel road and not like a
brutal stone track. Oh, you can make quick progress here, we're flying,
wow, now we're here on this big high plateau we were
surrounded by mountains for the last 10 days but now to have this foresight, wow and up ahead are the first 6000m peaks,
what kind of surface is that? like asphalt. We haven't had that feeling for weeks,
it's so incredibly fun here, one of the most beautiful paths ever, crazy,
we're still looking for a place to sleep, it's very windy as you can hear or see,
oh yes, the tailwind was really nice and we really
have to realize all of this the whole time I almost pinch myself that this is happening
crazy, it's so beautiful I could cry. It's quite a struggle to put up the tent, it's really quite a storm here
or gusts of wind. Let's hope that it will die down soon. At least the wind will die down at night.
We've now secured the tent here with the cord. Pegs are thundering in everywhere and
stones have been placed on it. It has to hold Hopefully and again I have no idea whether that will help
building a stone wall. but Franzy, how is it in the tent? great! Really? Yes. I'm really proud of myself
tent seems to be holding up. The wind usually decreases in the evening. but what a day, what
a day. exhausting, beautiful and hungry. Oh yeah. I'm so hungry, I only have oatmeal.
It's too windy to cook. and you would have to repair the stove first… that
's right, oh dear. Yes, and oats would fly away outside, that's why we eat in the tent
Now it's not an all-inclusive Türkiye vacation. but the view, the view a 5 star view.
Good morning. We slept for 11 hours, it's amazing, so we
slept like a log, I don't know if it was because of the altitude. yes, maybe it was
a tiring day, but yes the tent is being lit up really nicely. The sun is
already coming out and I thought it was actually getting colder, but it was pretty cozy,
We’re moving on again, we've just had a discovery, we've been
offline for about two weeks now and had no internet reception, nothing at all and we're just noticing how
we're really slowing down, so Instagram, Facebook, YouTube videos we like to do that
, but it only took us two weeks not to
hear about it. I really notice how I have found my peace of mind again
and that now even if I start again I have to try to somehow find a better balance
, but right now I'm looking forward to making another nice post,
to make nice videos, to google something again to be able to do what interests you. You have to
say that, I don't know if we've ever both been as happy as we are right now when we see this.
We now leave the 6000m peaks on the right and continue along this little stream
and we finally have water again. Where are we going? to Lake Karakul at 4000m
I think we'll reach it tomorrow and that's also the end of the Bartang Valley,
how cool I just saw a marmot running around here. They look a little different than ours, they're
yellow-orange and the tail is totally black but it was definitely a really cool marmot,
hopefully we'll see some more.
I always find it not that easy to coordinate with the water to get by
because sometimes there are really no streams for 50 km and
50 km sometimes means 1-2 days. We'll have to look a bit
, so I would say that building a lot of stalls as a child is paying off.
We're currently running out of energy and we're exhausted because we've
only eaten oatmeal and a bit of bread for the last few days and now we have to see if the
Stove works but if it doesn't... well we just have pasta and onions that would be
completely sufficient. do you find something? I just have no idea how to unscrew the whole thing and
screw it back together again. So far so good, at least there's a fire, please work!
and I have no idea why the stove is working again but the main thing is that we can cook. It's
interesting to see how priorities change when you really depend on it.
Okay, it's working now. has to last another 12 minutes.
really cold here. We have now made ourselves sun protection here, but we are now freezing because of the wind. As soon as the sun is gone, it's cold.
totally cold. In any case, we just put the noodles in and the package says
they need 12 minutes but I really notice that the water just
isn't getting as hot as it should normally because we're so high up so we're going to leave them
in there a little longer let. I think they need 15 to 18 minutes to cook.
Be careful, they will foam over immediately. Yes, the noodles don't look that appetizing. a nasty soup,
why exactly? We are at almost 4000 m and the pasta water doesn't get really warm anymore and then
it becomes a really disgusting broth. I think that
the quality of the noodles is also really crappy. So it falls into the edible category. That's a good thing.
when I see the bikes like this. I don't know, I love looking at them. After half a year, I still think
the bamboo is really nice and I mean we've been
on gravel and extremely rocky roads for over a month now and
you can actually say that bamboo is a suitable frame material because
I don't think there's a best test ride than how we do it
no why is it so deep
wet feet number 20 oh no. There are really nice big marmots again or are they
marmots? They have such a big bushy tail. whether they can be filmed close up?
I would like to show you, I'll give it a try. The marmots are extremely shy and as soon as they
see us from a distance they scream and everyone is gone, but one of them probably didn't see me coming.
I set up the camera here in front of their holes in the ground and wait 20 minutes. We're back there and
lo and behold, that's it someone gets out of his cave. Hans is somewhere 5 km behind me because he really
wants to capture the marmots with the camera, with the GoPro, that's not that easy,
okay, so we actually wanted to drive over this very safe bridge. Dude, what a…
what is that? all the nails sticking out... but we take
a little detour because we saw two houses in the distance. We heard that
a shepherd family lives here somewhere and
we are very fascinated by people who live in such incredibly remote places. we really want to visit her. So let's see where
we are now, here is a little house. from the other smok comes out and there is the yurt house.
Stay overnight? Yes. Sleep? Yes. Thanks!
It's really crazy here, totally cool with his beautiful hat. Franzy we are at 4000m
and sleeping in the yurt tonight, that's so cool. Here comes mom, maybe
we just saw the older woman doing laundry. I would like to get to know them all.
Here I believe that this is from Marco Polo sheep. We have heard
that you can see them here but the animals are extremely rare. what
a horn. It's crazy, I imagined them to be much smaller to be honest.
they can't burn firewood here because there are no trees, that's why
all the flatbreads are lined up here to be burned and that's what it smells like when
it comes out of the chimney, so let's show you what it looks like inside.
Flexible wooden poles are used for the frame of the yurt, the walls and
roof are traditionally made from materials such as linen, felt or animal skins,
and the skins of sheep and goats are best suited because of their insulating properties.
How cool is that? Cool something is being woven here, a carpet?
wow that's quaint. Oh, I'm just happy to be here. Wow,
that sheepskin on top. and the holes everywhere are cool too. God that this lasts.
We were already in a yurt camp in Kyrgyzstan and the yurts were really beautifully made, I would
say, but this is just so great, so authentic. original. I also think it's really original and
the top is open and there are holes everywhere but it's nice and warm here.
fits wonderfully. It doesn't get any better than that. I'm so grateful right now and somehow ca
n't quite believe that I cycled here to Tajikistan and am now
sleeping in the yurt at 4000 m, which is just so beautiful and so authentic and wow.
So there's food so I wouldn't have expected pasta here but they
somehow look like whole grain? I have no idea
and just yogurt and guess that's butter for bread and tea. really cool, they manage
to cook noodles better than we do at altitude, they are so delicious
with such broth and they are also spicy, a poem. Well, we have a really
hard time with yoghurt, it's extremely tricky, I don't think that's a problem. What does tricky mean?
carbonated, right? Yes. We're always not sure if it's healthy.
I think it's just fermented. I think it's just because of fermentation
, but it's incredibly carbonated like Cola, it's really awesome. well we still have butter, I
think yak butter and bread. This looks funny you and the teapot. It's nice and warm, it's warming me up right now, it
's really quite cold, so in winter it gets -50-60°, we were told, it's hard
to imagine, so it's one of the coldest places here. Father Frost is a bit generous.
We're going to bed now, we're really tired. was a great day again. I'm excited to see what awaits us tomorrow.
On the top of the mountain he was just showing us with his binoculars. We
saw Marco Polo sheep, which is probably extremely rare and he was
also a bit excited. He came in and so 'come quickly' and
was really lucky that we saw them. really cool, I thought a
Snow leopard that would have been cool. That would have been awesome too. yes it is cold. we are waiting
for the tea. I don't know, maybe we're just a bit effeminate, I don't
know, it's a few degrees below zero here, it's so cold, what will they think of us when they see us like that?
This is probably the toilet here, I imagined a bit more to be honest, very simple.
This evening frost accumulated again on our bikes, it was
pretty cold again and as you can hear there is ice in there. But it really felt like that too, so
we even really froze in the yurt, well, 'froze' it was okay, but it was really cold. I
was happy about the second blanket that we were able to put over it, which they brought us
yesterday. What a great experience to have been here. certainly one of the highlights of our
trip. Now we're off to hunt marmots again. We really want to
get one really close on camera. This time we even set up two GoPros and this is the result:
we are currently on the marmot hunt.
this is a Martian landscape. It's unbelievable
that it's so much more pleasant to drive here on the stone track or sand track than
on this mogul road and it's really cool to drive. You just have to avoid these bushes
, the water is definitely crystal clear and you can always
see so many different colors of stone everywhere in the water green, red, blue… Tajikistan is
also a mineral country and we have already seen so many crystals.
In any case, you can see the lake there. no, that's a mirage okay I bet that's the
lake I bet it's a mirage what do you bet? I bet €5. 5€? OK.
I have no idea whether we're still in the right place here. All we know is that it's roughly heading in that direction, towards the mountains
or the lake, but yes the road is becoming less and less roady here. getting smaller and smaller and just getting
a little muddier. hopefully it continues. What are you looking for? the glasses
as you can see the nerves are on edge because we can see the lake is getting closer and closer and that
means Franzy is 5 € lighter. No, seriously, this path outshines
all the bad roads we have had here so far, so the
road was already bumpy. but we now have to turn right onto
the almost invisible road. Oh shit, this is going to be funny, oh God, where are you taking us Franzy?
partly you can just see the tracks where it goes oh no
now comes mud Franzy now comes baf mud woah woah I'm at full speed woah shit
woah the wheels are filled with mud and this white stuff I have no
idea what it is maybe lime or salt I would say lime. Wow, what kind of mud field was that ?
So we can't really find the road here anymore, we can continue over there
but we don't want to cross the lake. There are a few tracks there too but there are no more tracks over there.
Let's see if we can somehow fight our way through.
You have to give it full throttle. Full throttle [laughter] is everything good? So
it's just a drifting around that's what it looked like! [Laughter]
so incredibly beautiful here wow wow but we're
just looking for a place to sleep now, it's quite windy, there's a headwind, we really want to cook something.
Having some kind of larger stone as a windbreak would be great, but there's not really a place
that seems like a good place to sleep here OK, it's windy and it's crooked
, but we have a stone to sit on, which is worth a lot. Wow, I can't stop being amazed
. it's all ok? I'm done, it's nice but I'm done.
I'm going to go fetch water in the lake now so we can cook pasta. Let's quickly go to the lake, the thing is a kilometer away.
There's a lot of algae on the shore. I don't know if you can see it, but I can't
use that for pasta water. I didn't expect that,
how do I fill the water bag now? What we didn't know here is that the lake has
no outlet and contains brackish water due to its high salt content. okay 2-3 m there
was less algae in there but there is still some in there. have to filter the water again but hey
we can eat. We don't feel like doing it with the right filter now because it's like that
It takes a long time, that's why we're doing it now so that at least the algae comes out, hopefully
it helps and then it'll be boiled anyway, the water tastes a bit strange... hopefully
we haven't done any shit or I have taken the water out from downthere, but I
know Not if water has boiled then it should actually be edible or drinkable, right? It doesn't matter what
unless it's dirty but it was very clear now wasn't it? yes, it should be fine.
Brackish water is or can be harmful to health. Luckily, because
of the taste, we listened to our gut feeling and threw most of it away
. Wow, it's going to be cold, yes, we're going to sleep, good night, see you tomorrow.
Good morning. Good morning.
We sleep here for 10 to 11 hours every night. yes, that's so crazy how long
how long we sleep well, yes I don't know, I think it's because of the altitude that it's so exhausting for us,
okay, so I'm going up this little hill there,
it's about 4400m, I just looked no further. I don't have any water with me and
we really don't have much down there. I can't do that to either of us.
There were some really cool shots. Now I just have to find Franzy, I have no idea
where she is and somehow everything looks the same in the scree field. Damn. Franzy!
oh crap. oh dear. I just drove there because a stream was marked on the map,
but it wasn't a stream... now I used the filter to get water out of the lake, you can't drink it,
it tastes bitter, extreme, it really tasted really disgusting, we had one yesterday Made soup out of it
and we had to throw half of it away because it had a really strange aftertaste, but
we didn't get any stomach ache. I think it's because it was cooked. but now
we are here. It takes us about 1-2 hours to get to the asphalt road where
there is water and the two of us still have so much water that it's really a disaster.
According to the information on our navigation maps, there should have been a stream up there in the valley that
would have really made our lives easier. yes, there was no one now. We still have a sip, a little
sip now we have to somehow get up the mountain and then I'm looking forward to water
wow wow awesome wah those are these mega rare Marcopolo sheep again wow how they
just raced over here. they race still up the mountain. the last water is not
that much anymore. There's the Pamir Highway up ahead and we haven't seen it for a long time.
I'm just getting a bit emotional after two weeks of getting through here and there's civilization up ahead,
it's exciting the last few meters on washboard, there's tar up ahead.
ah oh my god. Tar, tar!
over a month of gravel and stone roads and now
it's so smooth!
yes, yes, now we just need water. You don't have to do anything, here's the proof:
it just rolls, wow, that's strange Franzy, I really didn't imagine it being so crazy, it's
unbelievable, it just rolls and the bags don't shake. That's correct. It's so silent.
Wow crap, there was a larger river on the map here, for example, I didn't think it
would be dry. Nothing works, that was a big river on the map.
Then we have to get to Karakol somehow, quickly. Extremely dry throat
or a car is coming soon so as soon as a car comes I stop it. a little
water. OK. The car didn't come anymore but we're really on our toes, I
really can't go there anymore. Hallelujah, I'm happy to see houses and people.
Unfortunately the first well was contaminated but the children sent us to this
well behind a school. Okay, that looks a lot better, that's clearly
a 7 out of 10. You can drink it. Now they just called the shop because of us and
opened it. Now we're shopping, we don't have any food left,
oh man, I thought there would at least be an apple or pasta...
where are they supposed to get an apple? I have no idea, we now have a whole pack of cookies,
chips, garlic and cola here because we absolutely need a bottle because they are so old,
our bottles and water bottles are simply not available anywhere here and 8 times soup noodles
What should we do? We have to somehow survive to the first city in Kyrgyzstan.
Karakol is behind us. That was a really big goal for us for a long time. and where are we going now? to China!
yes, that's our next big goal but we definitely need a break again, so
we're going to put our feet up in Kyrgyzstan for a few days and then we're off to China.
Riding a bike to China is really cool. The Karakoram Highway from China to Pakistan
is even higher than the Pamir Highway but as I said we are going first to Kyrgyzstan,
we will reach the 4300 m high border tomorrow,
about 40 km to the Kyrgyzstan-Tajik border.
Now let's leave Lake Karakul. Bye, I will never
forget the taste of you. That was disgusting. oh my god where is this storm coming from? and with a gradient of 15-20°
we can't get to where we want today. Change of plan: get up early tomorrow.
Wow, the wind is just too strong. We saw this stone down there, I think we'll take the option and camp
there. There's no point anymore, there's no point in wasting your energy and even in the tent when it
's so windy without wind protection it's uncomfortable. The stone there smiles at us and we take it. are definitely
not the first to camp here. The wind often seems to be strong here. It's great here, not as far
as we wanted to get but it doesn't matter. When you look at the lake down there you don't think
we're that high, but we're just at 4200m Franzy. Now we'll definitely have
some more soup and then we'll put up the tent. and I found a chair that works, it
was lying here, a camping chair, show me. Wow, we haven't had something this comfortable for months
. Enjoy your meal, we don't feel like washing our plates. We'll
probably be in a guest house tomorrow so we can wash up. Here we don't have a
river nearby and we have to save water, so now we're eating like two dumb heads.
The last day is starting and we're literally flying on the asphalt road. Above all, we're looking forward to a shower and something different to
eat. In any case, it will take some time until we
have realized and processed this adventure . another such beautiful day wow. Wow, the fence just makes
the landscape a bit annoying. We suspect that it was newly set up last year because of the
border conflict between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. We don't have
an opinion on it, we just perceive it, but it's a shame because every war and every conflict is pointless...
I'm really wondering where the border station is supposed to be over there,
we're in the middle of the mountains. ah up there, up there it is. Passport control comes out of nowhere
. It was a strange border crossing, everything was completely run down
and there was a strange atmosphere there. Now we have 20 km of no-man's land.
Now we go somewhere 20 km further in that direction until we arrive at the Kyrgyz border at the border post.
At this point, the border with Kyrgyzstan was again closed to solo travelers
, but we had already written an email to the government weeks ago, which meant that our name
was on some list. After four hours of negotiating with the border officials, we were finally able
to pass. Now nothing stands in the way, for our adventures in China and Pakistan
what an incredible the last few weeks have been. Tajikistan really blew us away,
it was so beautiful. the Bartang Valley, crazy and now we leave the Pamir Highway but anyone who thinks
it won't be so exciting anymore is wrong. and thank you very much for
watching, it's so cool that you're there, we're happy about every comment
, every thumbs up, every support, I think we've
become a really cool community now and see you in the next video, ciao ciao.
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