Felix, are you suggesting with all those forays toward the T*betan Autonomous Region that asia_traveller would be rebuffed in every attempt to enter the TAR? It's probably true. Even if he does manage to enter the TAR, there are said to be lots of checkpoints where he'd be outed as a foreigner with no legal pass to enter, and sent packing on a truck to Qinghai, Xinjiang or Sichuan. I think RyanJPyle may have something to say about this itinerary, since he entered the TAR from the far west, and managed to ride a lot of the region before hitting a bureaucratic brick wall in Lh*sa. I imagine that yellow line along the T*betan border with India, Nepal and Bhutan describes much of Ryan's route.

I'll also be interested to see what a Chinese cop does when he encounters a Belgian driver's license, presumably written in Dutch or Flemish or French or German...

cheers!