This friday we – me, my sister and our 2 male companions start out 4-weeks-trip to China, where will start in Shanghai and after end up in Peking again.

The first 2 weeks are planned by Marco Polo Younglines. We decided to take a guide for our start because noone of us four really speaks Chinese and the guided two weeks are especially designed for young people and should be quite a fun therefore.

Some information on the destinations on out tour:

• SHANGHAI (Transrapid into central, Expo, Huangpu, Team,  Damo-mountain…)
• ISLAND PUTUOSHAN (holy mountain, beaches and temples…)
• HANGZHOU (monastery, fairee, forest hiking…)
• Wuzhen  (Tai-Chi silk Shopping, Wiking again…)
• XIAN (Yangling-Museum, biking …)
• Huashan-Mountains (hiking)
• LUOYANG (truing,  Terrakotta army…)
• LUOYANG (Longmen-temple,  Shaolin-abbey…) BEIJING Ankunft in der Hauptstadt (forbittden citty, biking, shopping, heaven’s temple, hiking, great wall, pandas …)

Stay tuned for some upcoming blog posts, but I have to admit, I do not know how often we will have the possibility to publish blogpost via the web in China, so maybe until October!

From June 4th to June 11th some friends and I have been canooing in Arvika, Sweden.

The week after we visited norway. The following lines describe our tour:

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Day 1: We took out flight from Graz to Vienna, and Vienna to Oslo, then the train from Oslo to Arvika in Sweden.

Day 2- 7: Glaskogen Canoeing Tour.

Day 8: Train from Arvika back to Oslo and then again traveld by air from Oslo to Stavanger in Norway.

Day 9: Sightseeing & Oil museum in Stavanger.

Day 10: We took the ferry from Stavanger to Tau, with the Bus to the starting point for a hike to the famous Prekeistolen.

Day 11: With rented car to Kjerag to see the famous boulder called “Kjerag Bolten”.

Day 12: By car from Stavanger to Bergen and finally moved on to Voss – where the extreme sport’s festival takes place annually.

Day 13: Starting with the bus to go to the starting point for a boat trip through the Nærøyfjord, an arm of the Sognefjord – Norway’s longest and deepest fjord – to Gudvangen, back from Flam to Myrdal with the Flåm Valley and back again to Voss by train and bus.

Day 14: Driving with the rented car from Voss to Lillehammer – thereby drove through europe’s longest tunnel (25km) – to see the famous ski jumping ramp.

Day 15: Back from Oslo to Vienna and then the rainy Graz!

If you would like to see more pictures please talk to me personally, we have also a protected  picasa album that is online too.

it has been a week since we came home from our probably last skitour for this season.

Therefore I would like to share some impression from South Tyrol:

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This weekend we have been to the Small Bösenstein (2395m) within the Niedere Tauern. Though there is not much snow these days in Styria, is was a nice skitouring day. Let me share some impressions with you:

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Last weekend – til tuesday – we have been to the Weissee Glacier World for skiing. We stayed at the Rudolfshut there, a former Alpenverein hut, which is now a very nice hotel with sauna, indoor swimming pool and much more. Because of the reason that there was not much snow, we couldnot vary a lot with the skitours there, but nevertheless it was a wodnerful time and I would like to share osme impressions:

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The last three days I spend some time with friends in OSP (near Koper in Slovenia). The days were wonderful short holidays and therefore I would like to share some impressions with you from there:

As recently mentioned, we’ve been to Switzerland for skitouring the last days. So, last weekend, we made our first 4000-high-Skitour, namely to the Allalinhorn (4027m) within the Mischabelgroup (next to Saas Fee).

Some impressions from this “for me – new world”:

I will be on holidays for the next 8 days.

Therefore I just wanted to post some of our last Austrian snowy skitour impressions of the last weeks:

On March, 14th, we’ve been on a skitour to the Styrian Pletzen (2345m, Seckauer Tauern):

On March, 8th we have been on a skitour to the Styrian Schüttkogel (2049m, Rottenmanner Tauern):

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Upcoming impressions will be of skiing in Saas Fee - our target for the next week.

Meanwhile, have some nice skiing days in Austria too!

As in the last winter – we had much new snow in Austria the last weeks and therefore I would like to share some more impressions from our latest skitours:

In the beginning of february there has been quite much new snow even in the “Grazer Bergland”, so we spontaneously decided to go to the Schoeckl (1445m) summit on a weekday (Febr. 4th):

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Right on the following weekend we have been to the Eisenerzer Wildfeld (2043m).

And finally on the last saturday we went to the Zirbitzkogel (2396m):

And last but not least one impression from our last skitour to the small but nice Styrian Mugel (1630m) on February 15th: