【素人推薦文-最重要的夥伴】
四年前,我請在旅途中遇到的兩位好朋友,幫我寫一段他們對我的感想。不愧是我的好朋友,所以在兩年前,我終於收到了其中一位瓦倫的回覆(我們是拖時間比賽嗎XD)。當我現在要把他們整理到書裡面時,覺得NG的片段也太好笑了,所以決定一刀未剪的放上來給大家瞧瞧,你就會知道,在路上可能會遇到什麼樣沒頭沒腦只會拼命講幹話的好朋友 :D (以下是我的翻譯,原文可以往下跳到最後)
「兩位:
我終於找到時間寫些句子給Min,這真的不是一件容易的事情,因為當我開始認真寫個三句話之後,就會忍不住接一些廢話進去。這真的不是一件容易的事,試想看看,如果你得寫一篇關於某人好話的文章,但其實你心裡清楚她其實是個騙子,因為她總是跑去搭火車?
因此,這是我第一個嘗試:
Min是一個像金一樣純的人,她充滿愛和精神,總是穿白色衣服。她沒有騎車,而是在地球上飛行了50厘米。 不...他媽的!
第二次嘗試:
親愛的人們,我必須警告您:這本書是一本幻想小說!如果作者寫了幾公里這樣的文字,很有可能實際上是公尺;當她寫單車時,她意味著火車;當她寫帳篷時,其實指的是一間三星級酒店。
第三次嘗試:
關於第一個騎單車的背包客女子從德國乘火車到臺灣的簡短故事。
我第一次遇到Min時是在德黑蘭的土庫曼大使館大樓外。她問我:「您是Vali嗎?德國人,騎單車前往烏茲別克斯坦嗎?我是Min,我也想去那裡,我們可以一起騎嗎?」
那時候,我不想結識其他騎單車的人。某方面來講,我已經聽夠別人的故事,並很享受自己一個人的旅行。自從我的旅伴朱莉從伊斯坦堡離開我之後,我便開始享受旅途中的寂靜與寂寞。所以我並不想和Min一起旅行,但我只是回答她:「好吧,...是的,好吧,如果我們都能順利拿到簽證,就可以一起騎車。」於是她問了我的聯繫方式,最後她也真的打電話給我一起去領取簽證。
我們開始一起旅行時,我的伊朗簽證只剩9天,因此我每天必須不斷地趕路,我不確定Min是否能夠跟上,因為這將會改變騎車的節奏。但是當我開始認識Min時,我發現她是一個有趣的女孩,一個只燃燒熱情就打算從慕尼黑回到臺灣的女人,充滿了理想和天真。
她只是單純的展開了計劃,在還不知道接下來會發生什麼事,也沒有任何騎乘單車和露營經驗的情況下。她帶了一個彈出式的帳篷,那種帳篷你只會為了在車上應付緊急情況而準備的帳篷;是當你可能在開高速公路回家的路上,因為太過於勞累,而決定扔出這種圓形帳篷休息一下才會用到的那種。而她的單車也沒有前袋,所以她所有的裝備都扛在單車的後面以及她的背上,因為她竟然背了一個背包!實際上,她是第一個騎單車從德國到臺灣的背包客。這就是Min令人印象深刻的一件事:她有這個想法,然後她做到了。
她得到一台贊助的單車和一些贊助的裝備,然後就拿著這些東西展開旅程。她的思考模式不像我這樣的德國人,在計劃開始之前必須擁有完美的單車和完美的裝備。對她而言,在還沒有這些條件之前就可以動身了。我永遠不會知道她何時開始計劃,以及為何要做這趟旅行,我想連她自己都不確定,即使在書裡她告訴了你們不同的故事。
所以在伊朗的時候,我們開始認識彼此,而我的內心也開始轉變,我發現和Min一起騎車真是太好了。
有一天我們還遇到了香港人Senda,傍晚我們一起紮營時,他們兩個在抱怨伊朗米飯因為不夠粘稠,所以不能用筷子吃。請想像一下,有三個人聚集在他們各自的帳篷前,在伊朗沙漠中繁星密布的星空下,而我這顆德國馬鈴薯陷入了一場關於米飯的討論之中。我不得不為自己大笑,當我告訴他們在煮飯時我加了鹽時,他們倆都非常生氣。從這種情況下,我了解到米對於Min、Senda和其他將米作為主食的人來說是非常重要的。於是,我決定再也不會煮米飯給他們,因為他們比我更知道如何煮好米飯。
之後Senda前往阿富汗,Min和我前往馬沙德(Mashad),我們就此分開直到在烏茲別克再度相見。在土庫曼斯坦的途中,我遇到了一個叫雷蒙,又名骯髒的旅行者的瘋子,我們一起前進,當我們離開土庫曼斯坦時,我們又遇到了Min,組成一個黃金三角的夢幻單車隊。雷蒙非常熱愛騎單車,是一個非常可愛的傢伙。我們三個在一起的時刻如此獨特,在一起共享每一天,只有在夜晚時,被帳篷的薄布分開。我們一起騎單車,一起出汗,一起奮鬥,一起度過美好的夜晚,同時在帳篷前烹飪美味佳餚,共享非常愉快的自由與自主的時光。當我現在回想起來,不得不承認那是我一生中最美好的時光。Min是其中很大的一部分。
如果您想進一步了解Min和她的冒險經歷,則必須購買此書。真是太神奇了,我在馬桶上翻起書頁,就在那待了兩天,直到看完為止。讀這本書就像呼吸吉爾吉斯斯坦高原的空氣一樣,就像在雷蒙身後騎車並聞到他的屁味一樣。這將是一本暢銷書,是一本令人難忘的書。絕對推薦!買吧!」
-Valentin R (一位來自德國的瘋狂自行車旅人,和Min一起旅行了兩個月)
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來來來~想要一起蹲在馬桶上兩天的請往這裡請
👉https://pse.is/minbook
🤭我個人是很好奇, 他到底蹲了兩天看什麼東西?
🤔不要說我的書沒有德文版, 連中文都還在做編輯...
🤫到底是看了什麼啊...? XDDDD
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(原文)
Hey guys,
while staying for four days in Bangkok to repair audio amplifiers for rich Thai men I finally I found the time to write some sentences about Min and it was really not easy, because when I start writing something like this, I will write bullshit after three sentences. It is really not easy. Have you ever written something about another person and you have to talk good about this person while you know she is a liar and always went by train?
So the first try:
Min is pure gold. She is full of love and spirit and always wears white clothes. She is not cycling, she is flying fifty centimeters over the earth. NOOOOO fuck it!
second try:
Dear people, I have to warn you: this book is a fantasy book! If the author writes about kilometers on the bicycles she meant probably meters. When she writes bicycle she means train, when she writes tent she means three star hotel.......NOOOOO shit!
third try:
A short story about the first backpacker woman on a bicycle who travelled from Germany to Taiwan in a train
The first time I met Min was at the Turkmen embassy building in Teheran when she encountered me and asked: „Are you Vali, the German guy travelling to Uzbekistan by bike? I am Min, I also want to go there and I wanted to ask you if we can ride together?“
At this time I didn't want to know any other cyclists, somehow I was bored to hear stories of others while I was having a great adventure by myself. I enjoyed the silence and loneliness on the road since Jule, my cycle mate, left me in Istanbul. So actually I didn't want to travel with Min in the first moment, but I just answered to Min: „Well,...yes..., ok, if we get the visas we can ride together.“ So she asked for my contact and she really called me to pick up the visas.
I only had nine days left in Iran before my visa expired so we had to go really quick and I didn't know if Min was able to catch up. It was a change in rhythm for my bike tour, but when I started to know Min I found out that she is a funny girl with a burning ambition to fulfill her aim travelling by bicycle from Munich in Germany to her home country of Taiwan. A woman full of spirit and a good portion of naivety. She just started the trip without knowing what will come and without any experience of cycling and camping before this trip. She was equipped with a pop up tent, the kind of tent you have in the car for an emergency, when you are still on the highway and you get to tired to drive home. So you have this kind of round tent that you can throw and it pops up as a tent by itself. She also didn't have front panniers (bags) on her bike, so all her equipment was in the back – and also on her back, because she was wearing a backpack! Actually she was the first backpacker on a bicycle to travel from Germany to Taiwan. And that is the impressing thing about Min: she had the idea to do this trip, so she just did. She got a sponsored bike and some kind of sponsored equipment and she just took this and started the tour. She didn't think the German way like me who had to have a perfect bicycle and perfect equipment before I started. No, she just started without any spare parts for the bicycle, without any experience in cycling and camping. I never found out when she started to have this idea and why and probably she doesn't know herself even if she tells you different in this book.
So in the time in Iran we got to know each other and my mood was turning and I found out that it is nice to cycle with Min.
On day we also met Senda, an Hongkongnesian guy and in the evening Min and him were complaining about the Iranian rice, because it is not sticky so you cannot eat it with chop sticks. So you must imagine three people in front of their tents under a really nice Iranian starry sky in the desert and me as a German potato in the middle of this rice dicussion. I had to laugh for myself a lot and when I told them that I put salt in the rice when I cook it, the both got really angry. From this situation I learnt that rice must be something really important for Min, Senda and other people that eat rice as staple food. This night I decided to never cook any rice for them, because the knew it always better in terms of rice.
Senda went on to Afghanistan and Min and me went on to Mashad and we divided there to meet up in Uzbekistan again. On the way through Turkmenistan I met a crazy guy called Raimon a.k.a. Dirty Traveller and we went on together and when we left Turkmenistan we met Min again forming the golden triangle of cyclism, a dream team. Raimon is really passionate about cycling and a really lovely dude. We three had so much unique moments together, sharing the whole day together, only the nights we were divided by the thin cloth of our tents. We cycled together, we sweat together, we fighted together, we had nice evenings together while cooking nice dishes in front of our tents and having a really good time of freedom and self-determination. When I think back to this time now I have to admit that it was somehow the best time of my life. And Min was a big part of it.
If you want to know more about Min and her adventures you have to buy this book. It is totally amazing, I read it on the toilet and stayed there for two days until I finished reading. Reading this book is like breathing in the air of the Kyrgizian Plateau, it is like smelling the fart of Raimon while riding close behind him. It is just a best seller. It is the book that takes you and never leaves you. Absolute recommendation! Buy it!
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[繞道亞洲心臟的一人背包旅行] Bypassing the Heart of Asia: a Solo Backpacking Trip
(English edition available below)
從2018年5月7日開始,我將自己一個人飛到烏茲別克首都塔什干,開始為期42天的「亞洲心臟繞道」旅行。這是我這輩子第一趟超過一個月的自助旅行。
「亞洲心臟」指的是中亞,一個突厥、蒙古與伊斯蘭文化相遇並交融的地方。這趟旅行之所以稱作亞洲的心臟繞道(heart bypass),是因為路線雖然貫穿俄羅斯、中亞與中國,卻不是直接「刺穿」亞洲的心臟,而是從心臟的一端繞一大圈到另外一端。用文字說明不太清楚,看下面這張路線圖應該就比較明瞭了。
Starting May 7, 2018, I’ll be on a 42-day solo backpacking trip to Central Asia, Western/Northwestern China and Russia. The title I give this trip is “Bypassing the Heart of Asia”.
The heart of Asia, commonly known as central Asia, is a region where Turkic, Mongolian and Islamic cultures intertwine. After Rather than “piercing” through it, I will first get to one side of it, and then make a huge detour to the other side. This is why I call it a heart bypass. (I guess it still sounds vague. Check out the maps attached to this post.)
這趟旅程的發想,源自於去年的幾趟歐洲行。由於工作的限制,我幾乎都是用一個禮拜甚至更短的假期自助旅行,每次只能跑一兩個國家,沒過幾天就得回到工作崗位上繼續奮鬥;累積下來固然是去了不少地方,卻少了那種「壯遊」的暢快感。於是我開始想,有沒有可能讓自己有段更長的假期,可以來個瘋狂一點的大旅行,例如,用一個月的時間,從歐洲的最西端走陸路與海路一路回到台灣?尤其路上會經過的幾個前蘇聯國家,獨特的文化與神秘感非常吸引我。
那陣子正好也開始認真思考轉職,因此心裡便默默下了這個決定——等我換工作的時候,一定要爭取到至少一個月的間隔,利用這段長假來實現我的大旅行夢。那時候為了準備面試,每天都忙著練習演算法題目,每當卡題卡到想要翻桌放棄的時候,我就會想到自己的大旅行,想到自己有一天可以從葡萄牙的最西端出發、搭著火車穿過歐亞大陸,最後站在臺馬輪的甲板上,看著基隆港從地平線上慢慢浮現,以熟悉的家鄉風景作為一個月旅行的終點,那會是何等難忘的感動呀!想著想著,就有動力繼續解演算法題了。
後來找工作的過程大致順利,但這趟大旅行的規劃則不然——我很快就發現,事情根本就沒有我想的那麼簡單!
首先,陸路旅行最大的挑戰之一其實是簽證。在我規劃原本的路線上,持台灣護照前往俄羅斯、哈薩克、烏茲別克、吉爾吉斯都需要申請簽證,而這幾個國家的簽證都相當難辦,必須要先購買邀請函(每張索價美金70-100元),然後親自跑到位在華盛頓特區的大使館辦理,就算一切順利也要等上一兩週,然後再親自回去領取,簽證費用則都至少是美金100元起跳。落地簽?有(俄羅斯除外),但是要從機場入境才有落地簽,走陸路只能用正式簽證。這四張簽證如果全部辦下來,時間和金錢根本不是我能負擔得起的。
其次,一個月的時間看似很長,其實根本就不夠!就算我決定重點放在中亞、跳過所有歐洲的景點不停留,每個國家最後可能也只夠停留三四天,而且其中2/3的時間可能都在坐車。花了這麼多時間和金錢辦到簽證,哪有可能一國只去走馬看花個三四天?無怪乎那些真正有心的背包客旅行都至少是三個月起跳,甚至半年一年,大概因為只有這樣才能充分利用每張簽證的價值吧!
最後我只好開始妥協,先放棄了從歐洲最西端出發的想法,接著決定允許少數一兩段不走陸路(以便拿到比較省錢省事的落地簽或電子簽),後來又努力減少造訪的國家數量。最後,就產生了這趟先往東再往西、在中亞和蒙古周圍繞了一大圈的奇特路線。
第一週:烏茲別克
第二週:吉爾吉斯
第三、四週:中國新疆、甘肅、寧夏、內蒙古
第五、六週:俄羅斯從東向西橫跨
為什麼要先一路向東、繞了一大圈之後才入境俄羅斯,而非從俄羅斯開始一路往東?這樣規劃的原因是,俄羅斯簽證是世界知名的難搞加上昂貴,但正巧在2018年,趁世界盃在俄羅斯舉行之際,自助旅行者聽到了千載難逢的福音:凡購買世界盃門票者可以在球賽期間免簽證入境俄羅斯,整個開放期間是6/4到7/25。由於我的旅行得在6/17結束,如果要利用世界盃門票入境俄羅斯,就只能利用6/4-6/17這段期間。因此我只好先把中亞和絲路走完,然後再往上以由東向西的方式橫貫俄羅斯。
寫著這篇文章的此時,有點不敢相信自己竟然已經找好新工作、從前公司離職、申請好所有簽證,彷彿幾天前還在為了轉職奮鬥,現在才驚覺兩天之後就要出發了!
這趟旅行對我來說有很多個第一次:第一次一口氣旅行這麼長的時間、第一次前往中亞、第一次走陸路跨越亞洲與歐洲,除此之外還有另外一個第一次:第一次嘗試一路用臉書專頁的形式分享我的行程,以及路上見到的人事物。過去我比較喜歡先把旅程跑完,等凱旋歸來之後再把旅程中最美好、最精華的部分呈現出來(當然也有很多時候是根本就沒有認真寫);這次選擇用同步的方式紀錄,意味著我寫下的文字將更加貼近自己當下的感受,路上經歷的好與壞、成功與失敗都更可能被攤在別人面前。不確定這種方式寫出來的文字會是如何,但就把這當成一個實驗性的寫作計畫吧,我這樣想著。
歡迎加入我的旅程。我們後天晚上出發!
This grand trip idea started last year, after a few European trips I took. Due to the limit of my paid time-off, those trips lasted only one week or even shorter. Then I started thinking: how cool would it be if I can get a longer time off, let’s say like 1 month, to travel from Europe to Asia through all the former Soviet Union countries (which seem extraordinarily attractive to me after my Baltic States trip last year)? And I knew that the best timing for me to do that would be the gap between two jobs. Therefore, I started conceiving this trip while looking for a new job. The job search went fairly smoothly, but the trip planning soon faced some difficulties.
The biggest difficulty is visa. As a Taiwanese passport holder, visa is required for me to enter Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyz, and those countries are notorious for their lengthy and costly visa application process. For each visa, I have to buy a letter of invitation (LOI), go to the consulate in Washington DC in person, wait for one or two weeks, and then pick up the visa in person. Each visa can take a month and cost $200-300. Things have changed recently -- visa waiver is now available for many western countries, but not for Taiwan citizens, unfortunately.
Another difficulty is time. One month may seem long, but to travel from the westernmost point of Europe (Lisbon) to Taiwan without flying, it’s still way too short. Even if I take train through all the European countries without making stops, I’d probably have only 3-4 days to spend in each central Asian country, and 2/3 of the time I’ll be on the train. This is not the way I would like to travel!
As my original plan was quickly proven unrealistic, I began to make compromises: giving up the attempt to start from the westernmost point of Europe, allowing myself to fly once (in order to enter using visa on arrival, which is applicable only if you fly in), and reducing the number of countries to visit. Finally, I came up with this “heart bypass” itinerary:
Week 1: Uzbekistan
Week 2: Heading east to Kyrgyzstan
Weeks 3-4: Heading east/northeast to western and northwestern China
Weeks 5-6: From Russian Far East heading west to Golden Ring, the European part of Russia
Some may wonder about this: why do I travel eastward into China first and turn westward to go back to the European part of Russia first, instead of starting from European Russia and go eastward all the way? This is because Russia has a visa waiver policy during the 2018 FIFA World Cup: all foreign ticket buyers can enter Russia between June 4 and July 25 without a visa. Since my trip has to end on June 17, the only period for me to take advantage of that would be June 4-17. That’s why I have to do Central Asia and China first and enter Russia later.
Still cannot believe the trip is just around the corner! I have found a new job, wrapped up my previous job, and been approved for all visas. This is my first time trying to write about my trip while still traveling -- previously I always did that after trips. Writing while traveling means the narratives would probably be closer to what I actually see and feel on the way. I’m not a big fan of broadcasting or checking-in everywhere to show off my trip, but I’d like to do this “near-time writing” as an experiment, and see how my travel and my writing would both be made different.
Welcome to join my trip. Get yourself ready to head out with me on Sunday night!
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