CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 384 km round trip from Chengdu - roughly 5 h 11 in the saddle. It goes by way of Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat, Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, back through Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong and back through Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Chengdu is the sort of city where the main achievement is that people there have a good time, and the rest is background. The capital of Sichuan province sits in a wide, humid plain in western China, home to more than seven million people in the city proper and a lot more in the wider area. It has an easy, teahouse-and-mahjong rhythm, a pace the rest of the country envies, and a cuisine whose reputation is global. Sichuan pepper, the tingling spice that numbs the lips, flavours the hotpot, the mapo tofu and the dan dan noodles, and a rider arriving here should plan on eating well.
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Chengdu is where the day begins. Next is Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat.
The Min River comes down out of the Tibetan edge of Sichuan in a hurry, and the Chengdu plain below it would have flooded every year if a governor named Li Bing had not worked out how to tame it in the third century BC. His Dujiangyan scheme, begun around 256 BC, splits the river with a man-made island and a cut through the hillside, sending the surplus to the sea and the rest into canals that water the plain. It still works, more than two thousand years later, which is the real wonder of it, and it is the reason Sichuan became known as the land of abundance.
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Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat comes up 43 km in. Next is Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat.
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85 km in you reach Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat. Next is Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong.
Wolong is a valley in the Qionglai mountains, about a hundred and thirty kilometres from Chengdu, and for many visitors it means one thing: pandas. The reserve, founded in 1963, covers a big stretch of forested mountain, rising from deep valleys to snow peaks of more than six thousand metres, and it holds one of the largest populations of wild giant pandas in the world. Together with other reserves in the region it was listed by UNESCO in 2006 as the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, and the surrounding forest shelters red pandas, takins, golden monkeys and many rare birds.
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Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, about halfway. Next is Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong.
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Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong sits at 170 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong.
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back through Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong comes up 213 km in. Next is back through Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat.
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255 km in you reach back through Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat. Next is back through Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat, late in the day. Next is Chengdu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chengdu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 384 km.
Chengdu → Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat → Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong → back through Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigat → Chengdu is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.