It's a fact that our team must take a different route. Chinese authorities do not allow us to pass through Tibet to Nepal, as we had initially planned. Our complete route must be reorganized. Visas, film permits, flights, overnight stays, and fuel costs ... you need nerves of steel to travel through Asia.

Christian Klemke is directing this stage, which leads us from Uzbekistan to China via Kyrgyzstan.

More stops on that stage:
In Uzbekistan:
- Tashkent
- Fergana Valley
- Kokand
- Andijan

In Kyrgyzstan:
- Osh
- Sary-Tash
- Irkeshtam


In China:
- Simuhana (boarder to Kyrgyzstan)
- Kashgar (Xinjiang, autonomous area in the outermost west of China)
- Shachexiang (Xinjiang)
- Yarkant (Xinjiang)
- Yecheng (Xinjiang)
- Pishan (Xinjiang)
- Hotan (in the oasis town lying in the Tarim Basin, South of North-Western China)
- Niya (ruins from an ancient site on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang)
- Qiemo (capital of Qiemo County of the Prefecture at the foot of the Qilian Mountains, on the old Southern Silk Route
- Ruoqiang County (a county of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region in Western China
- Huangshan
- Golmud (free town in the independent district Haixi of the Mongols and Tibetans in the Chinese province Qinghai in the northeast of the Tibetan highland)