Re: Chengdu- yushu, Qinghai
Wow... this sounds interesting...
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Some pictures from the trip. It ended up being about 3000 km and took around five weeks. I turned ack from Yushu just as the weather was turning. Got caught in snow quite a bit on the way back, especially on the passes.Attachment 20234 Me at the beginning of the trip in Chengdu. Top heavy. This is what comes of buying camping equipment at the last minute.
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Climbing the first mountains West of Chengdu
Attachment 20235 Pleasant stop in Shangli Gucheng
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Weird site on the road..TIC
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Re: Chengdu- yushu, Qinghai
Let's try putting pictures in a dropbox folder...
These are on the way to tagong, so include Kangding, where the owner of the Zhilam hostel, Kris showed me some local trails on his dirt bike. The first time I've done off-road with the X2. Revealed the need to sink the rear shock. It was pretty high from Shuben's frame, when offroad, we were finding it hard to put a foot down. FGun times though.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...wW?usp=sharing
Re: Chengdu- yushu, Qinghai
Ganzi was simple, bustling and VERY Tibetan. There is a hostel, only opened at the beginning of the 2017 season in Ganzi called Dzachusama. Good coffes and western food, plus the owner, Nate, advised me of a dirt road to the next town of Manigange. I took this, going through a closed off tunnel, past goffers and packs of ig Tibetan Mastifs, through deserted remote villages and finnaly stopped when the sun started to go down and set up my tent.
Re: Chengdu- yushu, Qinghai
These pictures are of the dirt road from Ganzi to Manigange, then of Yushu itself.Yushu was my destination for this trip. I spent nearly a week there. Because I was travelling just before the golden week, I saw very few other travellers. I was glad when I met another foreign traveller-a Spanish guy in Yushu and we explored the city. One night, after succeeding in finding a bar, some tibetans filled our table with beers and we only paid for two, leaving shaky at the end of the night. I rode out to the grasslands near Yushu with Arnau on the back and we went along dirt roads, descending steeply into a valey (the road we took is marked on the picture by red arrows) and into a valley where there was a large temple damaged badly by earthquake.
Traveling by motorcycle really does afford you access to places others rarely go.
It was a good time in Yushu, but I'd been on. the road alone for abbout a month and I finally decided to turn back and go the way I'd come when the snows arrived to Yushu.
Pictures in the link below.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1C6...0b5jS6CSl1kmUG
I'll add one more picture dump later of the return journey. This was really scenic because of the fresh snow on the mountains, but difficult at times, because of the temperatures and the snow (roads were clear but this was my first time riding with the snow driving into my visor and the cold fingers. Made for great pictures though. I will add those later.
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I'll upload this picture here because I think it shows the real beauty of the landscape in this part of China. It was a blast. to finally acheive this route. It was diffult to do it alone, always moving into the unknown each day. I hopw in future to ride with others. I have picked up some mentors and riding buddies on my trips and through this forum. I started riding 2 years agonow and this forum really helped for the first year. I even bopught the bike the Shineray X2 off fellow forum member Shuben. It's probably credit to his maintenance and farkles on the bike that this humble Chinese bike tractored up everything on this trip and was really resilient.
I rode the bike to 5050 metres altitude at the Chola mountain road pass. I was astounded by that.
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A few more pics to come...
Re: Chengdu- yushu, Qinghai
Fantastic RR and insightful info on an area less explored by fellow intrepid adventurers. . .
I look forward to seeing and reading more of the adventures to come