Chain is kicked again. We are in Yunnan Province, China. Our route takes us through central China via Qinghai to Xingjian. Before we cross Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. How we get around the Caspian Sea is still an open question. In general, we meet very friendly, nice and helpful Chinese people in China. Individual travel has not caused us any problems so far. However, communication is difficult. The Chinese outside the megacities hardly speak English. Social media and messenger services are blocked and blocked. Even with VPN it's difficult. Around 7 p.m. it's getting cold and the sun is setting when we stop in a small village on the hillside. I see smoke rising from an oven and suddenly I'm standing in a family's living room. You offer us to stay overnight with you. Without an app, without advance reservation, without a package trip. 50 yen and you're good. The next morning we fight our way through the sloping slope to reach a small road. We have to break barriers and drive through private property. Everything goes well, with a smile they show us the way to ShangriLa. A driver stops us. He gives us food and drink. We are talking about China, he jokingly emphasizes several times “because we crossed the Great Wall,” which is a common joke in China. We pass the border post into Sichuan. The police show us into the building. Then questions are asked and we have to register. Then someone says: You can continue. They give us apples and tangerines! We drive through the rocky gorges. As dusk falls we once again find shelter in an unspeakable flophouse which also costs us 120 yen. A lack of motivation occurs. What are we doing here? There are so many beautiful places in the world. We get bad food, dirty accommodation, can't communicate and actually have nothing to reward ourselves with at the end of the day. We fight our way up a 4,000m high pass towards the Tibetan border. In the freezing cold we reach a hotel in Zhongzanzhen around 10:30 p.m. The next morning, the asphalt cowboys knock on the door. “You need a special permit for Tibet.” Thank you very much. Bye. The impressions and experiences are absolutely changeable. We are often invited to spend the night by warm and open families. They also prepare dinner for us and give us breakfast so that we can conquer the high mountains. When I offer them money, they don't accept it. The host says: People should help each other, we are all children of Mother Earth.

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