The Route

 

Covering approximately 25,000km, passing through every province on the mainland and crossing some of the most beautiful yet extreme and hostile landscapes in the world. Mountains, deserts, great plains and plateaus, it is a route that will test my endurance, my nerves and my sanity, the latter being a subject that's always open for debate.

 

 

Stage One     - 9,000km

Stage Two    - 11,500km

Stage Three  -  8,000km

 

I will travel roughly anti-clockwise passing through Guangdong province, Hunan, Chongqing, Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Tibet (if possible), Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong and finally back to Hong Kong.

 

Weather is going to play an important part to each and every day of the journey. From the scorching heat in Xinjiang to the freezing temperatures of the North East. I need to reach Heilongjiang Province, North East China sometime in July so that I catch a piece of the short summer before temperatures steadily plummet to a mind numbing -30 degrees Celsius. Winter will have to set in somewhere and I will no doubt get stuck in some random city waiting for it to pass.

 



UPDATE - 19.2.08

Well Stage one is complete. I was hoping to complete the North East of China before the winter kicked in December 2006, but that didn't happen.

 

 

I was just too slow arriving there and had to abandon heading North due to the cold weather. Deep snow and -40 degrees Celsius. The winters in the North East are very long so I could not continue again until the following April. That departure date never happened as I had to postpone continuing the journey for one year for various reasons.

By not finishing more during the first Stage I now have to pedal harder and further to cover lost ground. If I don't, this journey will strecth on into 2010.

Next up, Stage Two. Currently the roads are still clogged up with snow, but all should be fine by April . Thats when it begins again.

 

 

Comments:

Rob writes:

Feel free to write any comments about the route, ideas you have or information on specific areas.

27/6/2007 18:03:37

 

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