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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282 km from Linping to Linping, about 3 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, Hangzhou Xiaoshan - Shaoxing Section of Zh and back through Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City.
Liangzhu is a city that existed before writing. About five thousand years ago, on a marshy plain south of the Yangtze, a Neolithic people built a walled capital with a palace platform, canals, workshops and cemeteries, and they carved jade into ritual objects of astonishing skill. The city covered several square kilometres, and its walls, built of rammed earth on a base of stone, were up to sixty metres wide at the base. UNESCO listed the archaeological ruins in 2019 as evidence of an early regional state.
Read the complete Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City write-up.
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Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City comes up about 55 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.
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about 140 km into the recorded legs you reach Hangzhou Xiaoshan - Shaoxing Section of Zh. Next is back through Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, late in the day. Next is 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 at Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal. That is the ride.
Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal → Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City → Hangzhou Xiaoshan - Shaoxing Section of Zh is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hangzhou Xiaoshan - Shaoxing Section of Zh → back through Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City → Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.