After we helped the two unfortunate fellows as good as we could, we were on the way towards the border between China and Myanmar. It is roughly 90 kms From Liuku at around 800m asl up to the pass at around 3200m asl. These 90kms are partly really though riding.

The first 20 kms we rode along the Nu Jiang before we turned West and always up.


Along Nu Jiang


The road starts climbing from here


A look back at the first photo stop


After 10kms of climbing


A look back from a little further up


After about 25kms up the mountain tha road turns into dirt


Incredible views open up


The road we came


Typical Yunnan cobblestone road


Whenever we thought we are close to the top, you see more road, high above


After more than 2 hours riding we reached the top - 3135m asl


It is really unbelievable but at this altitud everything is green.


A look towards Myanmar. We didn't reach the actual border though - restricted area, so we had to turn back from there. With a little paper from Liuku Police we would have made it - damn.




More views from the way down


Mountain road


People - rarely seen up there


We had a very late lunch just before we reached Nu Jiang valley


Lokal school kids haven't seen many foreigners before


Claudio is always carrying his little espresso maker

We crossed a suspension bridge to return to Liuku on the East bank of Nu Jiang.



Suspension bridge


Distant view of the bridge with the crazy crew in front


We had a farewell dinner with Sohyun and Herbert, who returned to Kunming with the pick up truck the next day. The rest of the gang moved on to Lijiang.


Andy

P.S. Sorry for the blurred pics, we didn't notice that we had to clean the lens after all the dust