Excuse me! Can you watch my bike for a sec? Alone in China on YBR250

[milton]

Hi Modron, great stuff and getting better with every new report.

The area you've covered around Sunan in last few days is probably part of the Qilian Shan mountain ranges. As you said it, the landscape is just so different from all other places we know. I believe you took S213. Motokai and I took S204 instead on our trip from Changsha to Urumqi with equally stunning, breadth-taking scenery, cutting through the high lands in order to reach Jiayuguan. I can't recommend that part of Gansu highly enough. Our RR:

http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...ll=1#post48403

We didn't do any camping regrettably. It would be a great idea to plan a trip just camping around Qilian Shan for a few days. In warmer weather though!

Cheers and thanks for bringing us along.


Edits: Just re-read your post. You did get on S204, which is what we did as well. The route/map Motokai published does not seem to match what we actually did in that part of the trip. We did S204 and went on a route not in the Google map or something. The last part to Jiayuguan was along a coal truck route right next to the railroad, supposedly a short cut, unpaved and brutal for over 80 km. But that was totally worth it.