Across Asia on a bicycle

Two recent graduates undertake a bicycle journey across Asia, narrating an episodic travelogue that blends route descriptions with cultural observation. The account follows their daily progress through mountain passes, caravan towns, deserts, and border checkpoints, noting practical challenges of long-distance cycling, interactions with local officials and residents, and efforts to learn regional languages. Chapters present vivid sketches of landscapes, markets, religious sites, and domestic life, supplemented by photographs and illustrations, and culminate in their crossing of western China and approach to the Chinese capital after traversing the Gobi and the Great Wall's western gateways.