A Hike from West to East
Deutsch unten – täglicher Bericht auf Polarsteps! 中文下边 – Polarsteps 每日报告 ! „After the lonely weeks in the Gobi, I treated myself to a long-overdue rest day in Liuyuan. Even more than the break, I looked forward to seeing Guang and Sonja again. Sonja had travelled all the way from Switzerland to accompany me for a stretch of [ ]
Deutsch unten – täglicher Bericht auf Polarsteps! 中文下边 – Polarsteps 每日报告 ! I had barely finished writing the last passage when something happened that would turn my entire journey upside down. Guang and I had just entered Mongolia and were looking forward to a two-month trek across the country. We had even encouraged some friends to join us [ ]
Deutsch unten – täglicher Bericht auf Polarsteps! 中文下边 – Polarsteps 每日报告 ! We tried to leave the giant behemoth of Ürümqi on foot. Without realizing it, we became caught up in a police dragnet. The whole city was searching for us, and it was only in the evening, while we were already looking for a hotel, that the [ ]
Deutsch unten – täglicher Bericht auf Polarsteps! 中文下边 – Polarsteps 每日报告 ! Monday, May 11, 2026 – Ürümqi (乌鲁木齐市), Xinjiang Province, China 🇨🇳 Total kilometers walked: 15,615 Daily average: 39 km Days walked: 400 Days since journey began in Portugal: 441 Rest days: 41 Countries walked through: 24 Distance not covered on foot: 22 km (multiply by 1.609 [ ]
Walk from Bishkek to China
Deutsch Bilder unten – täglicher Bericht auf PolarSteps! 中文和照片下边 – PolarSteps 每日报告 ! I ll keep this relatively short because I m afraid that longer posts won t be read. If you d like more detailed information, you re welcome to read my diary on Polarsteps. In this blog post, I describe the stage from Tashkent in Uzbekistan to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. [ ]
Deutsch unten – täglicher Bericht auf PolarSteps! 中文下边 – PolarSteps 每日报告 ! I am often asked whether I can still continue walking through this world when war seems to be everywhere and danger appears omnipresent. “No,” I reply, “most places are actually peaceful.” Where does this difference in perception come from? I believe it stems from the constant [ ]
The mountain walk from Duschanbe to Samarkand
Deutsch unten – täglicher Bericht auf PolarSteps! 中文下边 – PolarSteps 每日报告 ! I m often asked why I don t walk directly to Singapore via India, but instead take a huge detour through Mongolia and China. I looked once more into the feasibility of the southern route through Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Myanmar to Thailand. Walking through Afghanistan and Pakistan wouldn t [ ]
Deutsch unten täglicher Bericht auf PolarSteps! 中文下边 PolarSteps 每日报告 ! My journey through Turkmenistan has concluded today, and I can say it was a truly extraordinary segment to which I would like to dedicate some reflections. We spent 18 days in the country and walked exactly 600 kilometers without losing a single meter—except at the [ ]