1. Biking4Biodiversity
2. Biking4Biodiversity

Biking4Biodiversity by Biking 4 Biodiversity - Polarsteps

2 ecologists, 2 bikes, 20.000km ahead, to document the human-nature relationship

Steps:

• Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
• Gelnhausen
• Diespeck
• Lauf an der Pegnitz
• Dietldorf
• Cham
• Weging
• Modrava
• Strážný
• Nová Pec
• České Budějovice
• Oslnovice
• Lukov
• Retz
• Vienna
• Orth an der Donau
• Šamorín
• Dunasziget
• Veľkolélsky ostrov
• Tát
• Budapest
• Northern Great Plain
• Hortobágy
• Tiszafüred
• Just outside Debrecen
• Barcău
• In the Romanian mountains
• Arrival to Tordaszentlászló
• A day in Cluj
• A morning in the Zoological museum
• Pârâul de Câmpie
• Targu Mures, Milvus
• Through Székelyföld
• Centrul de vizitare al Parcului Național Piatra Craiului
• Centrul de vizitare al Parcului Național Piatra Craiului
• Arges
• Arges
• Carpathians crossing, and two days with Carpathia
• Out of the Carpathians, cycling along a beautiful river valley
• Greengage plums and the snail incident
• An impromptu weekend in Bucharest
• Eforie Sud
• Staţiunea Zoologică Marină Agigea
• A night spent looking at the beaches of Constanta from above
• More promenades, wild beaches, Rompetrol and finally, the Danube
• A stop at Argamum ancient city
• Bloody headwind
• A weekend in Crisan
• Tulcea, visit to the Danube Delta National Research Centre
• Beach hopping on our last day in Romania
• Durankulak with Pavel
• Cape Kaliakra
• Starry night, beach corn and more
• The Blue lion
• A ride to Kamchiya, and a beach day after
• Kara Dere
• Arriving to Pomorie lake
• Meeting Green balkans
• Two days, three nights in Burgas
• Strandzha - exploring with a new friend
• Kiyiköy, and about the fact that we already love Turkey
• "I love asphalt"
• Four days flew by before we fly away
• The great and the horrible
• Two days in one
• Be careful about the thorns
• Arrived to Ankara!
• A relict oak forest
• Conservation conversations
• Güle güle big city life
• Tuz Gölü, the world's 2nd largest salt lake
• Heat, busy highway, flats
• Ihlara valley
• Everything is better on the rooftop of an abandoned gas statiom
• Mental and physical rest in Göreme
• Valleys, people, rest
• A night in a cave
• Sultan marshes
• The road uphill, apple orchards, night at a gas station
• Aladaglar guesthouse - pure heaven
• Emler summit
• Four days above 3000
• If you need to buy a car, you first need to buy two for Erdoğan
• Cancel all plans and head south
• After crossing Turkey once, it's time to explore the Yumurtalik lagoon
• The not so impressive way to Hatay
• The Dörtyol bicycle club
• From Dörtyol to Arsuz
• A day of total relax
• Samandağ with Ünal
• Breakfast at the hidden garden
• Mountain gazelles up close
• From volcanic lakes to the mountains
• Arrived to Gaziantep!
• The land of pistachio
• Crossing the Euphrates for the northern bald ibis
• On the footsteps of the striped hyena
• We saw striped hyenas!
• Commagene tour and Mt. Nemrut
• After Nemrut
• The mountains are killing us a little
• More climbing, more generousity
• More ups and downs
• A place to return to
• The friendly construction workers
• Making our way up to 2100m
• 2/3 mountains - done
• Rain, sweat and snow
• From 2500m to sea level in one day
• Rest, meetings, Turkish hamam
• Tea, tea, tea
• With Soner and Ceren in Arhavi
• In Artvin with the Green Artvin Association
• Learning more about the Laz people
• Georgia, here we come!
• Locked up, on laptop duty
• 2 days of Batumi
• Batumi Botanical Garden
• Last full day along the Black sea coast
• Don't stop pedaling til you reach the hotspring
• Not feeling it today
• Arrived to Borjomi - ready to explore!
• A night straight from a horror movie
• Recovery in Borjomi
• Meeting the Bicycle Mayor of Tbilisi
• Meetings, meetings, meetings
• Wine, chacha and recovery in Sighnaghi
• Towards the most remote protected area
• Change of plans, mud and 80km detour
• Exploring the Chachuna Managed Reserve
• Tbilisi round 2
• Counting East Caucasian turs in Kazbegi
• Tbilisi round 3
• Never send a package from the EU to far away
• Pre-Christmas hike in wilderness
• Ebird birding at Kumisi lake
• A very merry doggy Christmas
• David Gareja Monastery
• Eagle canyon
• Vultures, gazelles, little bustards, Vashlovani
• On a Pheasant farm with Amiran
• Kornabuji castle
• A taste of Lagodekhi protected areas
• Doggy therapy in Tbilisi
• On the road again
• First day in Armenia
• The ups and mostly the downs of winter touring
• A day in Dilijan national park
• A long and great day to Yerevan
• The mysterious case of black white storks
• Meetings, food, metro in Yerevan
• Caucasus Wildlife Refuge
• Cycling towards Areni and meeting the famous Vartkes
• In leopard territory
• Persian hospitality in Armenia
• Our southernmost point in Armenia
• Snoooooow
• Finito, Caucasus
• Bye bye Armenia
• Final return to Tbilisi
• We arrived but our bikes did not
• Waiting time
• All senses activated
• Smashing those kilometers
• All eyes and phones on us
• Feeling welcome
• Sore butts
• The tiger at Pilibhit
• First day tiger, second day leopard
• The wildest things are happening
• Doomed (?) Suhelwa Wildlife Sanctuary
• Into Nepal we go
• Busy roads, cheap hotels
• Made it to Kathmandu
• Meetings and bike repair
• Tourists in Kathmandu
• Pokhara round 1
• Pasang
• Annapurna, Manaslu, the land of eternal snow
• Muktinath - we made it across!!!
• Pokhara is for relaxing
• The jungle of Chitwan
• Holiday is over
• What a day
• Exploring Parsa National Park
• Hanuman saved us
• Not today
• Varanasi buzz
• Growing pain for the train
• 23 hours and 850km later
• Everything and beyond done in Dehradun
• Date day
• The flat before the mountains
• Climbing to the clouds
• Toy train ride to Shimla
• Meeting Shan, an indian cycle tourer
• Heat!
• To the Golden temple
• A wonderful surprise
• Arrived to Pakistan!
• Big questions asked from us while watching cricket
• oh, Lahore
• Quick overnight in Islamabad
• First day on the Karakoram highway
• Got captured
• Repairs, climbs, escorts
• A day in captivity
• Community conservation in Bunji
• Cycling at the tripoint of the Himalayas, Hindu Kush and Karakoram
• Gilgit from in and beyond four walls
• Konodas
• An afternoon with communities
• A trip to Hunza valley
• Hugging a glacier
• Hospitality at its finest
• Struggle
• Reached Skardu
• Manthoka waterfall
• Two days with the snow leopard guys
• Where rural support went well
• Bread cravings in the green city
• On the Margallah hills, and finding our Pakistani family
• The sisters
• Into the Salt range
• A morning searching for Punjab urials
• Evening excursion
• Early worm catches the urial
• K.O
• Escorted all the way to Multan
• The mango capital
• The gate to Cholistan
• Blackbuck in Lal Suhanra National Park
• Two days in the desert
• Goodbye Multan!
• Reflections
• A stopover at friends' places
• A quick Delhi sightseeing between two buses
• It's getting hot in here
• Crocoes, snakes
• Torched observers
• The village of swings