Greetings all.
Here is the overdue ride report from a trip that Fahni and I completed last month.

The plan was to stick the bikes on the train up to Qiqihar in Heilongjiang, then spend a week or so riding back to Beijing through Inner Mongolia, rough camping as much as possible.

Some difficulty in plotting a route because of inconsistencies between Google maps, 高德 maps and paper maps. We used GE as far as possible to seek out dodgy sections including a couple of serious river crossings. In addition, I was keen to look at some sections of Jin, Yuan and Song Great Wall, many of which are now no more than barely visible earthworks. Our proposed route took us along many Great Wall sites, but again, documentation was sketchy.

The GE image shows the proposed route (in Blue) and an approximate detour (in Red) made to make up time after problems on the first couple of days and to avoid the dodgiest terrain.

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