北京到巴黎無車探險路線地圖

北京到巴黎無車探險詳細里程及花費

歡迎下載：2007年北京到巴黎無車探險詳細里程及花費。

旅行路線：
中國（河北，寧夏，河西走廊，新疆）─吉爾吉斯─哈薩克─俄羅斯─烏克蘭─波蘭─德國─法國
旅行時間：2003年12月22日─2004年6月6日
騎行里程：約13,000公里
騎行天數：110天
旅行天數：120天
旅行花費：約58436台幣（不含機票）

In Aral’sk in Kazakhstan

Total distance so far: 7000km

Here is the article we wrote about Aral Sea:

We woke up from our campsite by the road, in the dry steppe of Kazakhstan, several camels, black, white and brown walk by. Today we are heading to Aral’sk. Kazakstan is the world’s 9th largest country, almost the same size as Western Europe. We already cycled more than 1000km from Taraz in the South East fo the country to Aral’sk, in the centre. It is another 1200km to enter Russia.

Riding in Kazakhstan is very physically demanding. It is cold in the early morning, but hot in the day, the road condition is from bad to terrible, and we have cosistant headwinds for most of our trip since leaving Kyrgystan. We struggle to cycle 120km each day. The roads have no shoulders and drivers drive very fast. Olly was hit by a car already. The scenery is monotonous, either dry steppe, or desert. Occasionally we see some farms, with huge fields, using large agricultural machines, and on one occasion an aircraft.

There are few tourists here. Kazakhs are very friendly to us. We recieve gifts from all kinds of people every day, sometimes many. We cycle along the Sirdariya River most of the way. Sirdariya river from Tian-Shan and Amudarya River from Pamir are two of the most important rivers in Central Asia. They run more than 2000km through dry desserts into the Aral sea, from North and south. We cycle into Aral’sk.

We expected a lively city waiting for us. But it is dry and dusty, probably the poorest place we saw in Kazakhstan. Only 47 years ago, Aral’sk is a seaside fishing town, but now all that are left of this legacy are the wrecks of boats, lying high in the air above desert. One of the world’s largest fish canning factories has long been closed. Yesterday we saw a group of young people from Aralsk drive 100kms to another lake, to take a swim.

For thousands of years people here use the river water for their small farms. Since 1960 the Soviet Union started their “virgin land scheme". They used more than 90% of the water from the rivers feeding into the Aral sea, for their massive cotton farms. The Aral sea is still rapidly shrinking.

The failure of policy makers here has lead to one of the world’s environmental catastrophies, and serves as a reminder why environmental management is fundamental to healthy economies. Now Aral’sk lies in the middle of a hot dry desert, stepped in poverty, and The entire Aral sea is expected to dissappear by 2015.

Co-authored by Ting and Olly

more pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ollybike/

Da si vi da ni ya!
Ting from Aral’sk

In Kazhakstan now!

Now Taraz in Kazhkstan!
Total distances: 5900 kms
got robbed: 2 times
got gifts: 5 times
rain and cold: many times
flat tires: 2
got stones thrown: many times, once got hit

From Atushi in Xinjiang, we entered Tian-Shan and Kyrgzstan. Kyrgzstan is an amazing country. It has spetacular scenery. The roads are tough, the people vary a lot.
How I find my lovely Kyrgzstan sister just in the first night we arrive in the country? How we got robbed in the home stay the other night. How we got stone wahsed from young boys on the plain and had a stone throwing fight with them? How we found we are in the backpackers’ track? How it influences the local people? How we had such great time with Hungrian Balas and Dutch Tony, and have plenty of great camping. The last night we were assulted by druncked men and all our friends’ pannier were stolen!!!! Shocking! How we enter lovely Talas valey, have a lot of gifts given. How a Taraz man insist to give us 2000 Teng (700 NTD). How we met lovely Aigerim to help us to know the big city? How Olly crashed in the mountain, and bent his fron fork 2 inches, but still keep riding with wounded/bloody body/bicycles? How we terribly found that both of Olly’s rims are cracked? How we solve this problem?
Oh yes I have a lot of stories to tell you later!

Da svi da ni ya!
Ting
(I couldn’t read/type Chinese. So thank you for those who e-mail me, but I could not reply!)