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Cycle-touring around Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in SW China

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 Hong Kong in the clag
 
 Kunming
 
 Kunming
 
 Our first ride--Xiaguan to Dali on the muddiest road of the trip
 
 Arriving in Dali
 
 Dali
 
 Dali city walls
 
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 Whole small loaches in my soup!
 
 Temple above Dali
 
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 The Cloudy Tourist Road -- 11km just like this
 
 Fried bread stuffed with plum jam
 
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 Riding round (lake) Erhai Hu
 
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 Wase on Erhai Hu
 
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 Chilli at Wase Market
 
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 Catching small bony fish and shrimps to dry and make soup with
 
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 Green tea!
 
 Frogs, snails, giant mussels, buckets of fish in a cafe
 
 Fish-head soup
 
 Pannier repairs
 
 Some nice pagodas that have just been built (and a much smaller older one)
 
 Riding to Lijiang
 
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 Lijiang Old Town
 
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 Another deserted motorway (you can only see one lane)
 
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 Yaks! and a fake waterfall
 
 Camping in the woods high above the Yangtze
 
 Jade Snow Dragon Mountain
 
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 Ferry across the Yangtze (at Daju)
 
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 Big descent and ascent to push bikes up
 
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 Riding towards Tiger Leaping Gorge
 
 Tiger Leaping Gorge
 
 Tiger Leaping Gorge. It doesn't really go
 
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 Cat and bird cage
 
 Tiger Leaping Gorge
 
 Tiger Leaping Gorge (high path)
 
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 Trekking high above Tiger Leaping Gorge
 
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 Our high point (3800m), 1700m ascent
 
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 Tiger Leaping Gorge middle rapids don't really go either
 
 Riding away from Tiger Leaping Gorge
 
 Hil and mangy dog
 
 1000m ascent to Haba
 
 Haba
 
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 Bita Hua
 
 There wasn't a hotel so we stayed with the boat man
 
 The Bita Hua boat man
 
 and the horse man
 
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 Trekking above Deqin
 
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 Minya Kolka
 
 High point of the trip -- 4550m top near Deqin
 
 Wild camping again
 
 Sumptseling Gompa
 
 Horses in a seasonal lake
 
 Grain-drying racks near Zhongdian
 
 Near Zhongdian
 
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 Hoge descent back to the Yangtze
 
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 Yangtze
 
 Stupa
 
 This doesn't really go either
 
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 Fishing in Yangtze trib
 
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 Shigu -- the first bend of the Yangtze apparently
 
 Chess back in Lijiang
 
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 and back down the the Yangtze again
 
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  Bee maggots for sale in Ninglang
 
 Locals (Yi) in local dress
 
 and academic dress
 
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 Mosu family (there were no hotels again), Pork fat for tea again!
 
 Lugu Hua
 
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 Fishing boat on Lugu Hua
 
 Tourist boats on Lugu Hua
 
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 We failed to climb this hill the next day
 
 More menu-reading successes
 
 Street BBQ in Kanding
 
 Gonga Shan (7500m) again
 
 Gonga Shan (in the distance) from the hill above Kanding
 
 Incredibly steep river near Kanding
 
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 Small children playing with firecrackers
 
 Another random house. Chilli lard potatoes for tea
 
 The family
 
 Riding up the Doda river
 
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 Cheating
 
 Big landslide-rapids on a Doda trib
 
 Cold bean jelly, tagliatelli noodle soup, green tea and aubegine
 
 Hil gave up and packed her bike up to take on the bus
 
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 Village near Kanding
 
 Siguniang Shan
 
 Siguniang Shan from Balang Shan La
 
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 Yaks
 
 Summit of Balangshanla -- 4487m on the map but only 4260m on the GPS
 
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 Yak -- it was drizzling on the other side of the pass
 
 Panda Valley near Wolong, after a huge descent
 
 Pandas at the breeding centre at Woling
 
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 Panda nursery
 
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 Chengdu
 
 Another pagoda in a monestary in Chengdu
 
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 Mount Emei Shan -- three days of stone staircases
 
 A Monkey
 
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 The biggest stone Buddah in the world (courtesy of the Taliban)
 
 Buddah at Leshan
 
 Tea house in Chengdu
 
 Hot Pot in Chengdu
 
 You get all sorts of fish (still flapping), meat and veg to cook in a pot of boiling chilli stock
 

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