Travel shots - Bart VDB http://vdbbart.com 4 years in China and now back in Europe! Hope you enjoy my pics. Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:19:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Climbing in Ailefroide http://vdbbart.com/?p=921 http://vdbbart.com/?p=921#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:19:56 +0000 http://vdbbart.com/?p=921 Again in Ailefroide… but this time for a whole week of climbing.

We stayed in Ailefroide’s big and quiet camping, climbing the day and burning witches at night.

And with 2 new 50 m ropes we attacked some multi-pitch routes.

It’s basically climbing with 2. One goes up (about 30 meters), belay from there. The other climber joins him and once both at the belay station, up they go again… and that for 100, 200 meters or even more!!!

Non stop climbing!!!! Higher and higher!!! Just amazing!

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IMG_7695 IMG_7724 IMG_7624 IMG_7690 IMG_7700 IMG_7735 IMG_7578 IMG_7651 IMG_7592 IMG_7601 IMG_7684 IMG_7734 IMG_7715 IMG_7722 IMG_7716 IMG_7738 IMG_7577 IMG_7581 IMG_7674 IMG_7618 IMG_7649 ]]> http://vdbbart.com/?feed=rss2&p=921 1 Climbing in the LOT http://vdbbart.com/?p=872 http://vdbbart.com/?p=872#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:03:08 +0000 http://vdbbart.com/?p=872 The Lot, in southern France, is part of the Midi-Pyrénées region.

We stayed in ‘Vers’ camping (not far from Saint Géry), an ideal location for  a quick access to the surrounding climbing spots.

Finding a Topo might be difficult as they printed very little versions in 2010 so I made some copies. (Lot info and Topo)

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Saint-Cirq Lapopie's village IMG_7345 St Gery IMG_7471 copie Saint-Cirq Lapopie's village 2 Southern France St Géry IMG_7524 IMG_7539 IMG_7418 Saint-Cirq Lapopie's village 3 IMG_7357 Batiste gave all he got Saint-Cirq Lapopie's village 4 IMG_7459 IMG_7492 copie Me, resting 250px-Lot-Position.svg IMG_7480 Real climbing attitude IMG_7516 ]]> http://vdbbart.com/?feed=rss2&p=872 0 Climbing attitude http://vdbbart.com/?p=831 http://vdbbart.com/?p=831#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:27:30 +0000 http://vdbbart.com/?p=831 From Veynes and Orpierre to Ailefroide, we spent 3 days climbing in Southern France breathtaking sceneries.

It was my first time out on real cliffs and rocks… but definitly not the last.

Special thanks to Delphine, Ju and Laurent…

(Perf. of the trip: leading on a beautiful 6b !)

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Another Tanguy's !! IMG_7184 IMG_7182 IMG_7272 IMG_7209 Sans titre-2 Thing to avoid at all cost!!! IMG_7279 IMG_7193 IMG_7207 IMG_7325 IMG_7171 Sans titre-1 IMG_7204 IMG_7148

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]]> http://vdbbart.com/?feed=rss2&p=831 0 Indonesia, June 2010 http://vdbbart.com/?p=791 http://vdbbart.com/?p=791#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:46:47 +0000 http://vdbbart.com/?p=791 From Bali to Lombok, bike riding through volcanoes, rice fields, monkey forests and amazing beaches…

Boat bw fields Fisher Fishing boats Flowers Forest Sun Set IMG_6141 IMG_6148 Yan and I - Waterfall Yan in the coffee trees Indonesian Kids Little one Monkey 2 Monkeys Rice fields 2 Rice fields Riding the ricefields Sun Volcano Working the fields
Flowers Sun Set Volcano Boat Monkeys Fisher Little one Riding the ricefields Sun Yan in the coffee trees bw fields IMG_6148 Rice fields 2 IMG_6141 Fishing boats Forest Monkey 2 Yan and I - Waterfall Rice fields Indonesian Kids Working the fields ]]> http://vdbbart.com/?feed=rss2&p=791 0 Flowers of Bali http://vdbbart.com/?p=711 http://vdbbart.com/?p=711#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:11:34 +0000 http://vdbbart.com/?p=711
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These are some flowers I took while in Bali (east of Java).

If you have the names of them, please share the info. Tx ;-)

IMG_6474 IMG_6702 Frangipanier / Frangipani : Champa flowers Tx jenny ;-) IMG_6471 IMG_6472 IMG_6476 Yellow Hibiscus Frangipanier / Frangipani : Champa flowers IMG_6262 IMG_6550 Tx jenny ;-) IMG_6473 IMG_6257 IMG_6380 IMG_6481 IMG_6469 IMG_6703 Frangipanier / Frangipani : Champa flowers IMG_6352 IMG_5584 IMG_6546 IMG_6264 IMG_6545 IMG_6542 IMG_6543 IMG_6868 IMG_6547 IMG_6551 IMG_6549 IMG_6265 IMG_5583 IMG_6867 IMG_6358 IMG_6258 Red Hibiscus IMG_6348 IMG_6478 IMG_6470 IMG_6477 IMG_6256 IMG_6261 IMG_6349 IMG_6544 ]]> http://vdbbart.com/?feed=rss2&p=711 1 Nanjiang (南疆), the southern part of Xinjiang http://vdbbart.com/?p=662 http://vdbbart.com/?p=662#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:12:08 +0000 http://vdbbart.com/?p=662 The Karakorum highway

Over 16 years (1966-1982) the chinese and pakistanese armies worked together to build what would become the highest road in the world, the Karakorum highway.

Those 1300 kms of asphalt road link Kasghar (China) to Islamabad (Pakistan) and are an amazing mean to access and discover that beautiful mountainous area.

Check for yourself…

180px-KKH Kids In Kasghar, Uygur woman Baking "Nans", close to Kasghar Reflections 2 Reflection Posing in front of the Muztagh Ata Xinjiang's emptyness Camels Karakorum's beauties Tashkurgan Karakul lake Karakul and Muztagh Ata Taking care of the herd Old man Karakorum's highway Karakorum's highway Trading... close to Kasghar
Xinjiang's emptyness 180px-KKH Kids Karakorum's highway Karakorum's beauties Posing in front of the Muztagh Ata Taking care of the herd Camels Karakorum's highway Reflections 2 Karakul and Muztagh Ata In Kasghar, Uygur woman Karakul lake Reflection Tashkurgan Old man Baking "Nans", close to Kasghar Trading... close to Kasghar ]]> http://vdbbart.com/?feed=rss2&p=662 0 Spain http://vdbbart.com/?p=602 http://vdbbart.com/?p=602#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:20:48 +0000 http://vdbbart.com/?p=602 Spain is a very diversified country, both in terms of culture and climate.

From luxuriou forests, snow mountains, to deserts and beautiful coastal areas, Spain can satisfy all outdoor traveller’s need.

The country is also famous for all its “ferrias”, celebrations that take usually place in early spring and summer.

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card players IMG_4748 Vero salamanca flamenco in Seville IMG_3413 girls2 IMG_3533 IMG_3433 IMG_3792 copie IMG_1128 IMG_4769 IMG_3681c copie IMG_4753 IMG_2062c IMG_3556 ]]> http://vdbbart.com/?feed=rss2&p=602 2 Greater Tibet areas, Oct 09 http://vdbbart.com/?p=479 http://vdbbart.com/?p=479#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:49:45 +0000 http://vdbbart.com/?p=479 Greater Tibet: Travels through Chinese provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan province.

These 3 provinces offer a great window to Tibetan people and culture. It is less restricted (for foreigners) than the actual Tibetan province so it makes it easier to travel and to meet locals.

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riders Sans titre-5 YAK DSC02922 IMG_2837 IMG_3120 IMG_3390 IMG_3689a IMG_3782 IMG_3907 IMG_4059 IMG_4243 IMG_4271 IMG_4317 IMG_4385 IMG_4424 labrang lamusi2 lamusi riders1 Sans titre-1 copie Sans titre-3 Sans titre-4 Sans titre-5 Sans titre-d1 Sans titre-sq1 Small monk2 Small monk3 Small monk4 Small monk5 Small monk Vaultoursbw ]]> http://vdbbart.com/?feed=rss2&p=479 0 North West China – Oct. 2009 http://vdbbart.com/?p=417 http://vdbbart.com/?p=417#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:40:22 +0000 http://vdbbart.com/?p=417 Far inland, the province of Xinjiang remains, to me, one of the most magical place of China.

The Uigur muslims are in majority there. The culture, the food, the people… all makes you believe you are in an autonomous country… tricky subject…

Hemu baihaba BILLARD Black lake dawu dunhuang

BILLARD Black lake dunhuang dawu Hemu baihaba

Pictures taken in Xinjiang in October 2009.

]]> http://vdbbart.com/?feed=rss2&p=417 2 Shanghai, my dear Shanghai… http://vdbbart.com/?p=462 http://vdbbart.com/?p=462#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:35:29 +0000 http://vdbbart.com/?p=462 Shanghai has been my home for the past 3 years (2006-2009).

Huge megapolis, 20 millions inhabitants, a mix of Chinese and European culture, a great city, full of surprises…..

( Shanghai I Miss U! )

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dongtai rd parrot bird market shanghai seller shanghai fight criket bird market june09 copie Cactus @ home bird market cats bird cages bird @ bird market2 Shanghai worker ]]> http://vdbbart.com/?feed=rss2&p=462 1