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Just trying to escape from the Shanghai winter for a while....Quote:
Originally Posted by TexasAggie
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Originally Posted by TB-Racing
You succeeded......
What? No pix of your young sprog on his plank?
some random pics taken in a hotel ruin with graffiti art on a hill top separating Riyue Bay from Shimei Bay.
TB,
Thanks for sharing the RR and pics. I've been to Hainan/Sanya once before back in 2006. I'll bet it's changed a lot in the intervening time. You've had your JH600B for a while now. How is it holding up? I'm still hoping they'll get around to exporting them to the U.S.
Right now I am negotiating with a guy up in Xi'an to rent a couple of JH600B's in late May. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the bike.
Cheers,
Dan K.
Very happy with my JL sidecar purchase up to today, no complaints, no frills - straight forward sidecar to shift gear and people around....Quote:
Originally Posted by DanKearney
You got that right, Hainan changed a lot, was on the island the first time around 16 years ago assisting the Aussie government in some agricultural and cattle feedlot research....
G'Day,
Made my way up north from Yalong Bay to Wuzhishan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuzhi_Shan passing by the tropical rainforest park called Yanoda: http://www.yanoda.com/language/English/
Skipped Yanoda Park this time as I had to take overseas visitors twice to the park in 2012 and the two visits last me properly a life time, noticed quite a lot of real estate (villas / hotels) going up in the immediate area surrounding Yanoda Park.
Great roads with very little traffic after Yanoda Park leading up to the mountain range towards Wuzhishan, great scenery along the way.
Got a nasty surprise after paying the entrance fee 50RMB to Hainan Wuzhishan National Nature Reserve.... pictures say more than words and did not bother to look around any further and hit the road down the mountain direction Boao: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo'ao
Needless to say, quite sure this was my first and last visit to this particular nature reserve called Wuzhishan....... still, great winding roads going up though.
The secondary roads down the mountain range to Boao from Wuzhishan varied from concrete to tarmac to gravel and water crossings, brilliant stuff....
some more pictures Wuzhishan >>> Boao.....
G'Day,
Mate let me stay in his underused ocean view apartment in a suburb of Boao and looks like the whole of Boao incl. most of the main the streets are under construction for another BFA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boao_Forum_for_Asia
The snack bag packed before my Sanya departure helped a lot in the middle of nowhere in a huge flashy apartment complex with no restaurants / shops around just yet, bit foggy that morning with lower temperature compared to Sanya area but warmed up later on. Had a smile on my face passing through Traffic Safety Village.....
G'Day,
Stopped at a few road side temples for good luck on the way from Boao to Wenchang: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenchang
G'Day,
Some sections of road undergoing cheap dangerous repairs as the road surface becomes very slippery with the hot tar and loose gravel.
Uneventful ride over to Wenchang and noticed a lot of indoor / outdoor seafood farms along the route.
G'Day,
Wenchang memorial park and Soong Jing Ling ancestral home: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/..._Qìngl%C3%ADng
Wenchang Confucius Temple is located in Wenchang City of Hainan Province......
Wenchang Confucius Temple.....
On my way up to Haikou from Wenchang, passing through quite a few small villages and somehow they feel like 1800's western towns with single row houses on both sides, motorbikes look like horses of cowboys and the small police station is the sheriff's office and county jail..... might be all the infamous Sanya moonshine booze.....
These have been great photos! My relatives have finally left, so now I can hop down to Hainan, just as you are leaving :(Quote:
Originally Posted by TB-Racing
JH versus CJ. I recall when I had both a CJ and a JH at the same time. The CJ builder in Beijing would always have some snide comment about the JH (Chinese garbage, etc, despite the CJ ... uh, was also Chinese ... except of a "modern" 1930s technology). But I left my JH at his shop for a month or so, once, and guess what? He used it as his daily commuter!!!!!!!!! Not only that, his shop mechanics used it as their shop bike. Damn, they put almost 2,000 kms on it. Needless to say, when I got back into town I quickly took it out of their hands. Damn guys never changed the oil, or even washed it.
Yeah, the JH is far superior to the CJs. No comparison.
I was actually very happy to get rid of the CJ.
Not so fast, still cold in Shanghai I was informed this afternoon through reliable sources on the ground up North.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lao Jia Hou
Some interessting agricultural motor vehicles around in the Hainan woods.....
Made it to Haikou: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikou for my meetings, weather not really pleasant, humid / foggy and only around +15 degrees celsius.
Killing some time between meetings and visited Haikou Yongqing Temple, the temple is located not far from the Haikou / Hai'An ferry terminal connecting the island with the mainland.
More Haikou Yongqing Temple pictures......
Bo'ai Road is a neighbourhood located on the south side of the Haidian River, at the northern part of Haikou. It comprises many dilapidated buildings with European fusion-type architectural facades. The buildings are almost all painted white, and are usually no more than a few stories tall. The area contains mainly narrow streets and alleyways, and is populated almost entirely by indigenous Hainan people. The neighbourhood is the commercial centre for textiles, pets, exotic foods, replica antiques, shoes, hardware items, and wholesales convenience store products.
Bo'ai Road / Haikou......
Bo'ai Road / Haikou by night looks totally different....
Bo'ai Road / Haikou by night - busy with street vendors and customers....
After a few days up in Haikou heading South again towards Sanya to warmer pleasant weather (National Road #224).
Natural Rubber Plantations and lots of Beekeepers along National Road #224.
lot's of new tourist attraction signs along route #3 (National Road #224), haven't seen them a year ago, going the same road with a 4x4.
Huh, that captivates my imagination! RTW or AA (Around Asia) with that would be unforgottable experience. Just thinking to what use the space on the vehicle would be good for. You could always sleep on it, but other than that can't really say. But hey, at least packaging the luggage would be no problem anymore. You could just toss stuff over the vehicle.Quote:
Originally Posted by TB-Racing
Edit: Hell yeah! One could be a pack mule with that vehicle, if doing a group ride!