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