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We Conquer The Road: Chengdu To Xi'an
By Thamar Having left China to renew our visa in Hong Kong and after being away from the Mainland for a week, we noticed just how different the two places were. Hong Kong was clean, smelt like perfume and people were reasonably courteous. The former British-run and now autonomous region of China, was also really [...]
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The Gates of Hell: Yibin To Chengdu
By Thamar We arrived in Yibin just as it was getting dark. The bus ride had been somewhat hair-raising and we’d descended so low into the valley that our ears were blocked. However we’d covered some essential distance of about 200 kilometres to a town on the Yangtze River called Yibin. After seeing the road [...]
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Defeated: Huize to Yibin
So I’m sitting here in our hotel room in Yibin after a healthy breakfast for a change - red date rice porridge and tasteless muffins with hot milk. Oh and then I had to do my laundry by hand as dry-cleaning at the hotels here takes three days which we don't have. Richard is sick [...]
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Into The Mountains: Kunming to Huize
by Thamar After cycling 700 kilometres in the blistering cold from Beijing up to The Great Wall and then down south to Taiyuan, we decided we'd had enough of the north. The weather was far colder than we could have ever imagined and it just made everything bleak. Then there was the intense pollution - [...]
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Heading South To Taiyuan: Our First 700km
by Thamar After our small but rather daunting trip to The Great Wall on our bikes where we covered about 170km we felt a tad more sure of ourselves as we left Beijing the morning of the 10th of February. We realised many things on our first run including, how to deal with traffic on [...]
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The mission: Get To The Great Wall
by Richard After our epic and rather arduous cycle adventure (only about 60km) we had a short 20km cycle from Hairou to Miyun yesterday and arrived around lunch time. We battled to find the place we had earmarked earlier - something that's happening more and more - and so we opted for the Home Inn [...]