Shanghai to Berlin on YBR125

[tokyokid]

Well at least you had some bridges! You had a bridge over the longest river crossing which wasn't there when I crossed 2005. Actually it looks like the road has been dramatically improved from the photos you posted and it seems with more traffic. Back then much of the road was actually an old river bed. Man those were some hairy times!

Those small river crossings were really bad too though as they appeared every .5 to 1km. Also, at the time, none of them were leveled out and many still had very steep banks. Sometimes i had to ride or walk up and down one of the small crossings to find a better crossing point, hoping to find a local's tracks. In the end, it was a small one that finally sunk me.

Man that was a difficult but unimaginable ride! Glad to hear the wild life was still out there too. You get to see that abandoned town before the big river crossing?

CC

you should change your road info on that route, I expected a bigger adventure, thats why I choosed it ...
otherwise I could go strait from xining to dunhuang without that big circle
you should go from deqin to lhasa (G318), thats more of an adventure and landscape is incredible.
the funny thing was that the 109 at kunlun shan was totally fucked for a part. dunno what happend there, but it was the last place I expected a bad road...