Shenyang - Mohe

[Barry]

My bike has already arrived in Shenyang (Liaoning), I will fly there on friday night. Pick up the bike on saturday morning, which hopefully is still in one piece and the crate not up side down!

Once packed I will head out of Shenyang (Liaoning) to
-> Baicheng (Jilin)
-> Arxan (Inner Mongolia)
-> New Barag Zuoqi (Inner Mongolia)
-> Buir Hu (lake on the border with Mongolia)
-> New Barag Youqi (Inner Mongolia)
-> Hulun hu (Inner Mongolia)
-> Manzhouli (Inner Mongolia)
-> Hailar (Inner Mongolia)
-> E'erguna (Inner Mongolia)
-> Shiwei (Inner Mongolia)
-> Mo'erdaoga (Inner Mongolia)
-> Genhe (Inner Mongolia)
-> Oroqen (Inner Mongolia)
-> Jiage Daqi (Inner Mongolia)
-> Tahe (Heilongjiang)
-> Mohe (Heilongjiang)
-> Mohexiang (Heilongjiang)

This is rougly my plan for 9 days (2500-3000 km), I will see how everything works out. But there's still plenty of km's that can be cut off from the route!

I'm not sure whether I will be able to post any pictures during my trip, but I definitely will once I'm back in BJ again!

[fahni]

Hey Barry,

that sounds like fun! Take care and I am looking forward to see some of these pics!

[MotoKai]

Good luck Barry - Ride Safe.
And if you find yourself detouring into SE Inner Mongolia, give a shout on my mobile.
[I'll be making my way into that area around Wednesday.]

BTW you listed Jiagedaqi as "Inner Mongolia" but actually Jiagedaqi is a district under the jurisdictional of Heilongjiang Province (which makes it like a HLJ island in the middle of NE Inner Mongolia. When you're there please get the backstory on this one! Thanks.

[Barry]

BTW you listed Jiagedaqi as "Inner Mongolia" but actually Jiagedaqi is a district under the jurisdictional of Heilongjiang Province (which makes it like a HLJ island in the middle of NE Inner Mongolia. When you're there please get the backstory on this one! Thanks.

Indeed: "Its physical location is in Inner Mongolia, however, it is under the jurisdiction of Heilongjiang Province." source Wikipedia.

Here some photos by Thierry Coulon, who covered A'ershan, Hulun hu, Manzhouli and Hailar in his trip in 2009!

I could also pass through Tongliao, but I figured I would still see plenty of Inner Mongolia later. So I decided to go through Jilin a bit first and then head into Inner Mongolia.

[euphonius]

Dear Barry,

Looks like a fantastic journey, and 3000km in nine days seems reasonable enough. I note that you crated by truck rather than doing the roll-on/roll-off by train. Would be great to hear details about how this worked, who made the crate and with what, and whether you'll try to stow the original crate for the return journey. And how does the cost stack up with train transport. Finally, if the crate does arrive upside down, some of us will want to know about that too -- with pix!

Ride safe!

[Barry]

Dear Barry,

Looks like a fantastic journey, and 3000km in nine days seems reasonable enough. I note that you crated by truck rather than doing the roll-on/roll-off by train. Would be great to hear details about how this worked, who made the crate and with what, and whether you'll try to stow the original crate for the return journey. And how does the cost stack up with train transport. Finally, if the crate does arrive upside down, some of us will want to know about that too -- with pix!

Ride safe!

I will finish in another place so I doubt I will use the original crate! When we called to Beijingzhan to check for the price those idiots said: they count the number of cc's as kilograms. So that would be 600 kg in our case, which would cost me RMB 2600 for BJ - Harbin.