Yunnan 2005

[chinabiker]

After we said farewell to our unfortunate buddies, Sohyun and Herbert, we left Liuku Eastbound across a high mountain range to reach the Mekong valley.

First thing after refueling was yet another check point. These guys haven't been too friendly but didn't bother either.


Liuku checkpoint


The road started climbing - nice waterfall


And again - green everywhere


Short break half way up the pass - this where we found out that we had to clean the lens


On the pass


View towards Mekong valley


Rural traffic on the way down to Mekong


Pigs on their way up to pig's heaven


Getting closer to Mekong


The road was narrow but brand new, traffic consisted of animals only


Mekong valley


More traffic


How to reach that road on the other side of the river


The power of water


The road was washed away during rain season on several occasions


This one was extremely bad - must have happened only a day or two before


No danger of mudslides here


One of my favorite pics


Another mudslide area

After we followed the Mekong for about 100 kms North, we turned East in a small town where we had lunch.



Up we go again


Further up the mountain we came in very dense fog and a bit of rain. So no pics from there.
We reached another pass of just over 3000m asl before we went down the other side with the weather being a lot better.



Downhill again


Yet another green valley


Another pass over 2400m asl before we reached Lijiang just at nightfall.

We stayed in a guest house in the middle of old town where our bikes were not allowed to be driven into. So I had to push the big horse there - was wishing I had a 50cc, but only for the pushing part

We decided to have a rest day the next day and go up to the Yak meadow by bus. More about this later.

Andy

[Free Rider]

Hi Andy,
cooooool.....