Get ready for a lot of green... since what we were to see on this day was pretty much... well green..

We'd plotted out a small route which was to take us through some crazy looking twisties and mountains, it wasn't a very long trip, but seemed to come to a dead end somewhere in the mountains, so we decided to just head out and see where it led. (P.S I'll share all the maps once I've renamed them nicely on my server at the end of the report).

Getting out of Wuyishan took a while, we had quite a bit of traffic to get through (and fake police cars.. pic coming later), anyway once out of the city things started to really take shape.


Sometimes you just have to stop and take a pic.


We finally got off the bigger roads and started climbing up these awesome little mountain roads through a forest.


We occasionally stopped for a photo or two and let the bikes cool down, Tom was way up ahead enjoying what he likes best, twisties.


Green, green and more green.. P.S Tom had accidently switched on the heated grips on his Yingang.. and was wondering why his hands were getting so hot.


Some of this stuff just makes you say wow.. I personally can't stand Chinese architecture old or new since it's always in a state of disrepair, but this, this is true man made beauty, the shaping of the land over hundreds of years.. hang on this isn't the discovery channel, back to the ride.



bikes..


After hitting a few dead ends, we finally reached the final dead end at the top of the mountain, there was a farm house built into a cliff and we climbed up onto a hill to take some photos.


Sorry.. flickr doesn't like the big panorama shots, will try get a better photo host.


It was really stunning up there, almost no sound at all.


Could have spent a long time up there, but pictures were taken and it was time to get back on the bikes.


Some farmer with a dodgey hat..


So we turned back down and really enjoyed the hell out of the ride back into town, tomorrow would be our longest single ride on this trip... we'd be going all the way into Jaingxi province... we had to get back, drink beer and get ready for the day ahead.



Yes, I do take photos of myself, yes it's lame, that's just the way I am ;)

Coming up next in the Fantastic Fujian adventure... I take a tumble, we drink cheap red wine and turn a biscuit into a cake... stay tuned