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German tourists bike from China to Myanmar
Dec 4, 2009, 5:28 GMT
Yangon - A group of eight German tourists have biked from China to Myanmar as a part of a regional cycling tour that will end in land-locked Laos, industry sources said Friday.
'The tourists are now in central Myanmar enjoying a 800-mile (1,280-kilometre) bike tour,' said Min Min Kyaw, a tour guide at the Seven Days Travel and Tour Company.
Before entering Myanmar at Kuak Kaing town in the Shan State, the cyclists biked through Yunnan province in southern China, between November 8 and 25.
It is very rare for western tourists to receive visas to cross the China-Myanmar border.
The German bike tour comprises two women and six men, including 75-year-old Jost Neumann.
The cyclists will spend 11 days in Myanmar before travelling on to Bangkok, and from there to Laos for the last leg of their cycling expedition.
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