The Longest Way: Travels in China

Wed, Mar 25, 2009

Southeast Asia, weird & wonderful

Recently, we came across this little gem on YouTube…

The whole thing bubbles over with the enthusiam of an adventurer and it just works in so many ways.

Despite only being made up of the shortest of snapshots, it manages to convey a real sense of journey – that’s undeniably helped by the way his hair and beard grow as it progresses! It’s also packed with vibrant images, ranging from breathlessly iconic landscapes to the intriguingly mundane, and it bounces along on a great little soundtrack.

But if the video’s cool, then digging a little deeper dredged up a whole load of other brilliant stuff. The author, Chris Rehage, is a free-spirited German traveler, blogger and filmmaker, who left his home in Bad Nenndorf, Germany, a few months ago to retrace the old Silk Road through China.

Great Wall

The latest musing from his time on the road can be found on his blog, The Longest Way, while a whole load of stunning images (like the one above, of his time spent following the Great Wall) are crying out to be marveled at on his photo site.

All in all, it’s an impressive body of work, and HostelBloggers for one will be glued to it over the coming weeks and months.

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