CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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261 km from Deqing to Deqing, about 3 h 26 of riding. On the way it passes Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal, Hangzhou Xiaoshan - Shaoxing Section of Zh and back through Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal. The line favours views over speed.
Five thousand years ago, on the plain south of Lake Tai, a society built a city without metal tools. Liangzhu, now in the suburbs of Hangzhou, was a centre of a culture that carved jade into ritual objects, tubes called cong and discs called bi, and that grew rice in irrigated fields, and that built a complex water system of dams, dikes and canals, on a scale that no one expected from a Neolithic culture. UNESCO listed the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City in 2019, and the entry covers the city walls, the palace area, the waterworks and the burial grounds of the elite.
Read the complete Area of City Site write-up.
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Area of City Site is where the day begins. Next is Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal.
The Grand Canal of China is the longest artificial waterway in the world, a chain of canals and rivers linking Beijing with Hangzhou that was begun in sections well over two thousand years ago and unified under the Sui dynasty in the seventh century. Its southernmost stretch, the Jiangnan Canal, crosses the flat, watery plain between Jiaxing and Hangzhou, and this section is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site. Grain, silk and salt moved north along it for centuries, and the towns that line its banks grew rich on that traffic.
Read the complete Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal write-up.
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Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hangzhou Xiaoshan - Shaoxing Section of Zh.
Shaoxing is a city built on water. Its canals, bridges and narrow stone-paved lanes have made it one of the most photogenic towns in eastern China, and the Zhedong Canal, which links Hangzhou, Shaoxing and Ningbo, is its great artery. The canal belongs to the Grand Canal system, the longest artificial waterway in the world, which UNESCO listed in 2014. The Zhedong section carried grain, silk, tea and travellers for more than a thousand years, and in Shaoxing you can still see black-awninged boats, arched stone bridges and old warehouses along the banks.
Read the complete Hangzhou Xiaoshan - Shaoxing Section of Zh write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 131 km into the recorded legs you reach Hangzhou Xiaoshan - Shaoxing Section of Zh. Next is back through Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal, late in the day. Next is Area of City Site.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Area of City Site write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Area of City Site. That is the ride.
Area of City Site → Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal → Hangzhou Xiaoshan - Shaoxing Section of Zh is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hangzhou Xiaoshan - Shaoxing Section of Zh → back through Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal → Area of City Site is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.