one response to “21,000 Kilometre Photo”

• Awesome, I was wondering what was going to happen past 20k! Hijacking a confused local every 1,000km from now on has to be the way forwards!

  Justin – epic beard. Keep it up! We’re in Adelaide now – hopefully see you guys in NZ in a few months!

Ryan on December 24th, 2011 at 3:54 am

• 20,000 Kilometre Photo

  
  
  

  The 20,000 kilometre photo was taken approximately 5km outside Luang Prabang, Laos on 15th November 2011. That day we had covered a fairly quick 110km alongside the Nam Ou river before it merged with the Mekong. In the evening when we were settled in our comfortable guest house we raised a few toasts to the distance cycled so far and promised ourselves celebratory cakes the next day. – Posted by Justin

• 16,000 Kilometre Photo

  
  
  

  The 16,000 kilometre photo was taken in the town of Foping, China on 1st September 2011. In an area with 0.4 pandas per square kilometre we were lucky to have three available to pose with us for this monumental photo. To be honest the photo was snapped at 16,012km but we thought the pandas were worth waiting for. Our panda encounters on this day weren’t only with the concrete variety as we unexpectedly had a sighting of a real live panda a few hours earlier. – Posted by Justin

• 14,000 Kilometre Photo

  
  
  

  The 14,000 kilometre photo was taken alongside Telmen Nuur (lake) on 18th July 2011. In Mongolia every kilometre we cycle feels like a huge achievement with 700 kilometres of this 1000 being cycled off-road. So unlike the 13,000 kilometre photo we were keeping a close eye on our bike computers as we approached this milestone. We are hoping that we will reach tarmac before the next 1000 kilometre mark is passed (both looking suitably rough in the photo). – Posted by Justin

• 18,000 Kilometre Photo

  
  
  

  The 18,000 kilometre photo was taken near to Baishuitai, China on 10th October 2011. We were cycling with Kate and Jason who were our art directors and supporters for this photo. Having climbed a lot of passes in bad weather on poor road surfaces in the last 1000 kilometres, we were glad that for this photo the sun was shining, we were at the top of a hill and there was smooth asphalt as far as the eye could see. – Posted by Justin

• 10,000 Kilometre Photo

  
  
  

  The epic Black Sea Coast route is the scene for this 10,000 kilometre photo taken on 11th April 2011 near Yaykil, Turkey. The last 1000 kilometres has seen the full range of cold weather cycling conditions, many refusals for payment of cay and the fewest navigational challenges of the trip – we just followed signs to Trabzon with the sea on our left. Next up is Russia where for our next 1000 km photo we will need to employ another hand! – Posted by Emma