The Movie
Erlangen - Beijing
Five VW Käfer on their trip to China
A Movie by Sigurd Roscher
January 21st 2011, 7 pm
Ofenwerk Nürnberg, Klingenhofstr. 72
presented by Dr. Michael Eckart
Onkologische Schwerpunktpraxis Erlangen
The trailer of the DVD.
A Film by Sigurd Roscher
Length: ~56 Minutes
If you want to get the DVD feel free to contact
buero (at) sigurd-roscher.de
Car number 1 can be visited at the Techno Classica 2010 in Essen - Germany from April 7th - 11th 2010.
The DVD is available at the fair.
Also available is a 142 page extra edition of the Brezelfenster magazin about the Trip.
You can find us at hall 8.1 at the stand of the „Brezelfenstervereinigung“.
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Find some more new impressions from our great adventure on Youtube.
Videos by Bjarne Erik
Please leave comments on Youtube! More will come over time.
Our Sponsor IENA2009 (Trade Fair Nürnberg) has given us the possibility to present 2 Cars.
Bernd and Rainer (Team 3) and their 1956 Beetle were at the booth. In addition the 1949 Split Window from Richard was present. … more
After yesterday’s breathtaking welcome event in the German embassy, we went on a last joint trip with our five Beetles today, visiting the Beijing car museum.
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After a short check of our Beetles we started our journey at around 8.00 am and got on the highway to Beijing. The road was excellent, traffic in the morning was low and we made good progress.
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In Datong we spent our last rest day before our drive to Beijing. Although Datong city is not very attractive, we had still picked it as there are to very famous places to visit nearby: The world famous Hengshan monastery and the Yungang grottoes.
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The night in the Mongolian railway tent camp was not really comfortable. My tent did stink like pigs or sheep and caused me headache. Around 5.00 am I had enough and got up to start my outdoor morning toilet, not forgetting to take a spate with me … The washrooms were unusable and very dirty. In the East the sky turned red and in front of this scenery the Transmongolian railway passed by. An interesting setting on this morning of my 49th birthday.
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We departed from the Mongolian tent camp “Gobi Sunrise” very early as we knew that about 220 km of dirt road through the Gobi desert were ahead of us.
To make it short, it turned out to be a very eventful day with two flat tires, an “emergency operation” in the desert and lamb stew in a Mongolian family for lunch. But it was also a wonderful day on roads which for sure no other old-timer car had passed before us. Sometimes we even had the impression that no other car before us had been driving on these roads.
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