Alright, I had heard from a friend that Binhai highway was a nice ride and it certainly turned out to be.

Binhai Highway starts just north of a little town called Jinzhou, which is about an hour ride from my apartment in Zhongshan and about half of which smelled awful as I went through.

I didn't try to take the G11 expressway because it's a toll road and I figured I would just get stopped at the gate. Later I'll check it out and let y'all know how it goes. I just took Dongbei road north from Zhongshan and got on the 202 from there, it basically turns directly into Binhai highway once is crosses west of G11 further north.

The highlight of the trip was finding a really nice little beach. The beach is littered but otherwise the nicest beach I've seen in Dalian and apparently open for camping because I saw that someone had a tent there, with some other evidence of campfires.

It's a nice ride, but it's a scenic highway, not the small twisties I'm realing looking for. It's also pretty out of the way. Still, I'll go back again, and I'm also thinking of getting myself a tent on Taobao.
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