Bad news; we cannot go to Tibet. The regulations to get a permission to enter the "Autonomous Region of Tibet" changed. In order to go to Lhasa we now HAVE TO group up with at least 3 other foreigners and book a fully guided tour through a tibetan travelling agency without the possibility to choose the accommodations by ourselves which of course significantly increases the costs. Ergo no Tibet, or at least Lhasa. The new plan is now to approach the tibetan pla...

Since my last report there was a lot going on here in China. I managed to get from Peking to Hongkong (which was not quite clear according to the displayed location) and I even found my friend Josh really fast. Here are some quick german notes I made when arriving in Hongkong that may give you an inside on what happended when you understand German and are able to read in inbetween the lines: So das Wichtigste in Kuerze und auf deutsch: 1. ich bin in Hongkong un...

I managed to make it to Peking! Yay! The flight to Peking was okay, but as you can imagine from the photos, the space where I was told to fit my body in (Air China refers to this as "a seat") was quite narrow so sleeping was not really an option. The funny smell that was emitted from the unwashed chinese teenager sitting next to me was not really increasing my level of comfort. At least the food was really good and the stewards filled us up with unhealthy sugar ...