Martin is a travel blogger from the Czech Republic whose travel focus is western China.
He has traveled through Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Gansu and western Sichuan, filming plateaus, snow mountains, lakes and deserts. Western China's landscapes exceed his imagination, he says.
Martin also documents western culture: Tibetan prayer rituals, Kazakh herders' migrations, craftsmen in ancient towns. He respects every way of life; his videos carry humanistic care.
Western China is the country's most vast and magnificent region, he believes. From Prague to the western plateau, Martin completed his "longest journey".
Martin is a Czech traveller famous for visiting western China. His lens records the magnificent scenery of western China.
His journey: covering Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang, Tibet and western Sichuan - Qinghai Lake, Chaka Salt Lake, Dunhuang, Kashgar, Everest base camp.
Content: "a Czech looks at the great northwest", "starry skies of western China", "crossing the no-man land" - recording vastness and grandeur.
Going viral: his "at Chaka Salt Lake I thought I was stepping on the sky" video spread - the mirror-like lake made him exclaim like a child.
Significance: he is an international recommender of western China travel - showing foreign audiences world-class western landscapes.
For readers: his videos make you understand "great beauty of China" - the vast west deserves a personal visit.
He also records western China people - Kazakh herders winter slaughter, Tibetan prayer wheels, Uyghur uncles baking naan, Hui hand-pulled noodles. "Scenery is the skeleton of the west; people are its soul." He is learning Chinese because "I want more conversations with people on the road." His western journey continues.
The greatest shock of western China is not scenery but "how people look in vastness" - herders singing in snowstorms, monks turning prayer wheels at dawn, children reading under mud walls. "Vastness humbles and emboldens." He plans a 30-minute film for international travel festivals. "Such China deserves to be seen by more."
His favourite moment in western China: at Kashgar old city dusk, a Uyghur child pulling him to watch pigeons fly over rooftops. "At that moment I felt connected to this land." He is writing a bilingual travel book about western China. "Such beauty deserves to be remembered in two languages."
"The west taught me to slow my steps and open my heart." His lens collects vastness for more people.
His backpack holds a stone from Qinghai Lake, inscribed "jiā yóu". "That is a gift from China vastness."
His album is full of western night skies - "each one is like a poem China wrote to the night sky."
"The western wind is strong enough to blow dust from the heart." He is still on the road, still recording.
