From May to August of this year Kate Harris, Mel Yule, and Ben Rawluk loaded up their bikes and set out across Western China, following the trail of Marco Polo through Xinjiang Province and Tibet. Along the way they sweated through 4,000 k of remote and challenging terrain and raised thousands in support of Kham Aid, a non-profit working on cultural preservation the Tibetan regions of China. Kate recently uploaded a preview of their videos to Travelistic:



About the origin of the trip, she says: “We were deeply inspired by Marco Polo [and] decided to loosely retrace [his] travels through the Chinese autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Tibet, only traveling by bike rather than camel or caravan. We believed that the truth and reality of those places would be best revealed on dusty, winding trails, in remote communities, inside yurts shadowed by unnamed mountains.” You can read more about Kate, Mel and Ben’s adventures in the Cycling Silk blog, or on their website. For more of the unadulterated visual thrill of all that amazing landscape, check out Kate’s Flickr photostream.