Moritz Ecker – Blog

moritz — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:03:40 +0000

This blog is about touring the world with a bicycle and a guitar. Countries crossed: Poland Ukraine #1 Romania Moldova Ukraine #2 Russia Georgia Armenia Iran Kazakhstan #1 Uzbekistan Kazakhstan #2 Kirgystan Kazakhstan #3 China #1 -Xinjiang China #2 – Gansu/Qinghai China #3 – Sichuan/Yunnan Vietnam Laos Thailand Malaysia Singapore Australia #1 – Northern Territory Australia #2 – South Australia/Victoria New Zealand

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Wellington, New Zealand

moritz — Tue, 01 May 2018 02:21:22 +0000

The cycling part was over but my mission was not accomplished yet. From Melbourne I flew to New Zealand to record an album with all the songs I had written along the way. This is the little hut where I stayed for 10 days while I was recording. With no electricity and no heating but with a sign […]

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Australia #2 – South Australia/Victoria

moritz — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 02:00:17 +0000

Arriving at the border to South Australia I had to admit that headwind, poor food and the resulting tiredness had made me much slower than I expected and that if I didn’t want to miss my flight in Melbourne I would either have to skip a bit of the road or it would become a […]

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Australia #1 – Northern Territory

moritz — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 23:51:03 +0000

During my time in Australia I realized, that Australians, particularly the 95% living in the south east, talking about their country and its different parts tend to forget the Northern Territory as if it wasn’t a real part of Australia. And this is why the Northern Territory will get its own chapter here in my […]

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Singapore

moritz — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:22:15 +0000

The Singapore border welcomes you with a forest of prohibition signs. Don’t smoke, don’t get of your bike, don’t drive to fast, out of the line of in the wrong line. And of course there’s a massive fine if you break a rule. I was afraid I would get checked and that somebody secretly put some drugs […]

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Malaysia

moritz — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:22:05 +0000

So, here I am in Malaysia and back in the Muslim world. Not that there hasn’t been a mixture of religions around, especially Muslims in southern Thailand but the difference is which religion the government prioritizes. In Malaysia I fell asleep and woke up with the Muezin singing and I have to say that I was […]

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Thailand

moritz — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 06:39:06 +0000

My first impression of Thailand was that it was spectacularly unspectacular. Flat, hot and light traffic on pretty well maintained roads – perfect cycling conditions and I got back to my old European speed. It’s hard to describe but I think a big part of the exhaustion in Asia is just caused by having to […]

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Laos

moritz — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:20:17 +0000

Crossing the border to Laos I was reminded that in Laos everything might not be in best order when the border police asked to pay all kinds of made up stuff, among other things they asked me to pay for the entrance stamp which is obviously a scam but what can you do? They must […]

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Vietnam

moritz — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:34:32 +0000

Vietnam seemed to me like a sweet version of China, the people are nice and they haven’t built everything up with skyscrapers and motorways. And there are tourists! At least on my first day after a long an fairly steep climb to Sa Pa. After that I didn’t see any more foreigners. Sa Pa is […]

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China #3 – Sichuan/Yunnan

moritz — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 10:23:53 +0000

From Sichuan on the climate became wet and and the landscape turned into a real jungle (a bloody mountainous one). Sichuan is an earthquake hotspot and I’m glad none went off while I was pedaling my way through. I imagined being on a road cut into a wall of rock when the earth starts shaking – scary. […]

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