Freeriding pure!!
The race is really special, because the landscape is so stunning, it looks like the Redbull Rampage in Utah. But it's in China. Racing in Guide, which is near Xining (Qinghai province) - China. So of course we did also some freeriding there ;-). It was amazing!!
#mtbmagasia #guide #downhill #race #freeriding #xining #qinghai #china #mesumvermaphotography
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 guäts neuis!! 新年快乐!! happy new year!! 🍾🎇🎊🎉💚 photos: location (top) Nanjing / (down) Guide - China   stay loose!! ride on 2020!!
location: Turpan - China (background picture) rider: Suleman #looseriderschina #downhill #china #mmxv  Location: Yue Jiang Lou, Nanjing - China Photo: Mesum Verma (DJI Mavic Air)  Rider: Maxi Jakubowski Location: Guide, Xining, Qinghai - China Photo: Mesum Verma (DJI Mavic Air) #merrychristmas #happynewyear #2020 #nanjing #jiangsu #guide #qinghai #china #mesumvermaphotography #dji #mavic #air
         In the beginning of the year 2011, exactly during spring festival I was traveling to Anhui province to visit the famous village Hongcun 宏村. The village is also famous because scenes from the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon were filmed on location in Hongcun. Together with Xidi, the village became a Unesco World Heritage site in the year 2000. It was not at all a tourist site then, but nowadays it’s full of Tourists. The pictures I did with a middle format twin lens camera. Everything is manual, all on film roll. #10yearsinasia #2011 #hongcun #宏村 #anhui #china #asia #springfestival #travel #unesco #worldheritage #twinlens #middleformat #film #kodak #mesumvermaphotography
         Once again, my visa was running out and I had to go down south to Hong Kong 香港. The slow train from Nanjing to Shenzhen (南京 - 深圳西) took 25 hours (1728km) and from there I took the metro to Hong Kong. It was my first time to visit this city, and I knew for sometimes I will come back here, at least to extend my visa, as the magazine and photography gives me no working visa. Chungking Mansions 重慶大廈 was relatively cheap to stay, and I wanted also to see the bustling scene there. Cheap hotel rooms and Indian food I found there! It was great! Staying in Kowloon 九龍, it means also go almost everywhere in Hong Kong easily. The ten thousand Buddhas monastery 萬佛寺 was the first sightseeing place I went. Of course I seen the skyline of Hong Kong, which never gets bored! #10yearsinasia #2010 #hongkong #香港 #chungkingmansion #重慶大廈 #kowloon #九龍 #tenthousandbuddhasmonastery #萬佛寺 #skyline #tourist #mesumvermaphotography
         When I was racing my first Downhill Race in Nanjing back in 2009, I meet some other foreigner with the same interest like me. Trying to ride the bike down a mountain as fast as possible. Thomas from France was working at the Specialized Bike Store in Shanghai. He was organizing a 2 day downhill race event in Zhejiang province 浙江省 at Dongbaishan 东白山. Dongbaishan is located about 150km south of Hangzhou. A lot of riders where attending the race, even riders from Beijing they came so far south. It was really nice area, riding in the tea fields. But no time to have a closer look, only if you would crash. It was a really well organized event, thanks to Thomas, and I was even at the overall podium with the 4th place! #10yearsinasia #2010 #dongbaishan #东白山 #zhejiang #china #asia #downhill #mtb #race #teafields #wellnotmypictures #somebodydiditforme #mesumvermaphotography
         I was busy to get content for the online magazine I just started with a partner in India. A mountain bike magazine for India, Nepal and Buthan. We did some „Tricknology“ stuff, which means to show how to ride a bike in pictures and words. Matt did some pictures for me. I went also to some Chinese wedding, as I was invited. This one was the most traditional one! Lot’s of eating, drinking and smoking. #10yearsinasia #2010 #nanjing #南京市 #jiangsu #china #asia #tricknology #mtb #magazine #freerider #chinese #traditional #wedding #mesumvermaphotography
         After i came back from India, I went with Matt and Nick for a small weekend journey to Huai’an 淮安市. Huai’an is north of Nanjing, in the middle of the Jiangsu Province. We took the Bus (194km) to there and I was curious what will be there, as Matt was saying, we should really visit this city. In the Ming Dynasty author Wu Cheng’en 吴承恩 which is considered by many that he wrote the Journey to the West 西遊記 novel was living in Huai’an. The Former Residence of Zhou Enlai 周恩来 was the childhood home in Huai’an, which we didn’t miss it to visit. #10yearsinasia #2010 #huaian #淮安市 #jiangsu #china #asia #weekend #journey #friends #zhouenlai #mesumvermaphotography
         In Delhi, Eric my Swiss friend was so kind to let me stay at his house in Delhi. We had a good time there, with friends we made in Leh, and with his friends in Delhi. It was Monsoon मानसून season which means a lot of rain. Not much to do then, except take some nice pictures. 6 month are over and my visa for India run out. I went back to China for more adventures, mainly as I decided to stay in Asia, but do my base in China and not India. Even my new project it was, running the first ever mountain bike magazine in India. #10yearsinasia #august2010 #delhi #दिल्ली #india #भारत #friends #monsoon #मानसून #freerider #mountainbikemagazine #mesumvermaphotography
         Our last days in Ladakh we spent in Leh, bike mostly everyday to the top of a hill near by. I met also with Eric, a friend from St. Gallen, which was traveling in India. We met actually a lot of Swiss People in Leh. I went then all the way down with the bus from Leh to Delhi. It was pretty much a non stop journey, 1023km!! On night in Keylong, but otherwise no stop over, even not in Manali, I just went straight to the Manali - Delhi bus, as I don’t wanted to stop to long with all my things, it’s tiring to travel with a huge bike box, so I just wanted to get quick down to Delhi. #10yearsinasia #2010 #leh #གླེ #ladakh #ལ་དྭགས #manali #मनाली #delhi #दिल्ली #india #भारत #mountainbike #downhill #journey #bus #experience #himalaya #mesumvermaphotography
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