What does it feel like to ride a motorcycle alone through the vastness of Mongolia, across steppe, far from roads and familiar language?
Doris Wiedemann has lived exactly that. With her bike she followed the tracks of Genghis Khan – through countries so big that you easily lose all sense of scale: Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, all the way to the Great Wall of China.
The landscape grows wider, the sky deeper, the dust more persistent.
What remains is a feeling of freedom.
Genghis Khan once united the princes of Mongolia and founded the largest contiguous empire in history. For more than five centuries armies thundered across these plains. Today the land is quieter. But anyone travelling there by motorcycle still feels some of that magnitude: the vastness, the relentless weather, the solitude, the wonder.
Doris Wiedemann has been travelling alone for decades. No support vehicle, no safety net – but a keen eye for the small things. She meets nomads who offer tea, experiences silence deeper than any music, and a hospitality so natural that it stays under your skin.
Between tents, horses and steppe, a story unfolds that only reveals itself to those who are out there.
Her talk shows images that are allowed to be dusty, sometimes harsh and always real.
It is about the land, the people and the feeling of being on the road – with open eyes and a big heart. A look into a world that feels foreign and yet strangely familiar once you let it in.
Doris Wiedemann says: Those who travel, learn.
And those who listen, understand.
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