Beijing's West has been neglected in the past, at least from my side. One reason for that was that access to the fun areas used to be well over an hour away, much more than to the North.
Things, roads in this case, changed and now the fun starts after less than 45 minutes. So it was time to go West again, this time together with my old riding buddy Robert
After a thorough GE research, I planned a route which contained 3 side roads of the G109, most of it on Beijing territory.

I am an early bird and usually get rewarded for my early morning take offs

We left at 06:00, therby avoided the morning rush hour and made it pretty fast to where national road G109 enters the mountains and real fun starts

After a short while on G109 we turned off to the North and followed a narrow, one and a half lane wide, perfectly paved and very twisty road uphill.
After about 15 kms we stopped for breakfast and meanwhile reached 800m asl. Another couple of kms later and in a spot where the road ended some years ago, we found ourselves on a new road with two lanes, well paved and probably only a year old. The road took us Southwards along an impressive mountain for a couple of kilometers before it crossed the crest. From there we rode down again an reached G109 after many more hairpins and turns
This loop is approximately 40 kilomerters long and we met less than a dozen other vehicles, probably because it was a weekday. Be prepared for traffic jams on the last kms down, which is the access road to Miao Feng Shan monastary and temple.




Breakfast in preparation


The narrow but perfect road


Built just for us


Incredible views





Too good to be true




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