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#1 Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia - Three days with Andy, Kurt and Michael09-16-2008, 01:38 PM
Andy (R1150GSA), Kurt (R1100GS) and Michael (JH600).
Day 1 - To Inner Mongolia, directly and as quick as possible
Beijing - Huairou - Fengning - Datan - Daerhao - No name Lake
340 km, 98% tarmac
Michael and me (Andy) left Beijing around 6:30 in the morning after we finished loading the bikes. We haven't packed properly the night before, since it's inconvenient to do it in darkness at the parking lot.
Michael doing final packing
Andy still sorting
We picked up Kurt from his home before we started to move North.
Kurt loading the GS
We rode North from Beijing, through Huairou and then followed national road G111 until Tanghekou, where we had our breakfast.
Breakfast is served
Michael enjoying brekkie
After the break, continuing on G111, we made the 90kms to Fengning in only 1 hour and 15 minutes - what a great (fast) ride it was.
This time we passed the border post to Hebei without being checked.
In Fengning we filled up our bikes with 97 gasoline and left the chaotic town. It was Saturday noon, the peak market time as we passed through and decided to have a lunch beer in a village nearby, where, to our surprise we got hands on a cold beer.
Good shopping
Market street
Kurt somehow managed to break his left mirror, but the local craftsman was able to weld it together in less than 5 minutes at 2 RMB.
Welding in progress
Ten kilometers North of Fengning we left G111 and turned West on a minor road towards Datan. Amazing scenery opened up in the valley we rode through.
View into a valley
Another great view
Temple
After we climbed a pass at 1800m, we reached Datan to stock some drinks for the evening. As usual we were surrounded by curious locals interested in the big bikes.
Pass
Curious local bikers
Old lady talking to us
Beer reserves
The final stage for the day lead us further North to Daerhao where we left the paved road to ride on a dirt track to get to "No name Lake", where we spotted a perfect campsite. Surrounded by trees and bushes we were almost invisibly hidden. We were lucky that a huge thunderstorm just passed by and left only a few drops on us.
Campsite
Around the camp
Near campsite
Thunderstorm approaching
Dinner was prepared and eaten quickly, and after washing the dishes in the lake we started to kill our liquid reserves.
Kurt and Michael - cooking ?
Yeah,cooking
Sitting around a small campfire, we had some local, not so tasty beer and genuine German Schnaps.
Around midnight we were all wrapped in our bags and fell asleep quickly.
campfire
Another view
To be continued ...
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