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Sweden – Mongolia 2016

14 400 km, 18 countries and 210 days

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So I started out in a frost-bitten Sweden the 6th of March…

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After 8 days and nearly 800 km I boarded the ferry from Trelleborg in Sweden to Rostock in Germany and continued across Eastern Europe as it gradually got warmer…

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Turkey took me to Asia and showed amazing hospitality, although in Georgia and Armenia I was once again somehow back in Europe pushing my bicycle across flooded mud roads and climbing notorious mountain passes…

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Iran took me to Asia once and for all, and I rode the country wearing the hijab, receiving gifts from strangers every day but also struggling with bad men…

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Then I got a few glimpses of one of the world’s most closed republics: Turkmenistan, and completed the infamous Turkmen Desert Dash…

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In Uzbekistan I slept under the stars together with a poor farmer’s family and in Tajikistan Lars Bengtsson and I crossed the heart of the Pamirs; Bartang Valley…

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In Siberia I embarked on the Chuysky Trakt road built by Gulag prisoners in the 1930s…

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My final destination was supposed to be Ulaanbaatar but it ended abruptly already in the beginning of Mongolia as my tent broke in a storm…

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Cheers!