Sweden – Mongolia 2016
14 400 km, 18 countries and 210 days
So I started out in a frost-bitten Sweden the 6th of March…
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…
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…
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…
Then I got a few glimpses of one of the world’s most closed republics: Turkmenistan, and completed the infamous Turkmen Desert Dash…
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…
In Siberia I embarked on the Chuysky Trakt road built by Gulag prisoners in the 1930s…
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…
Cheers!
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