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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347 km from Ningbo to Ningbo, about 4 h 17 of riding. It goes by way of Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal, Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal and back through Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Ningbo is where three rivers meet, the Yao, the Fenghua and the Yong, and Sanjiangkou, the three rivers' mouth, is the heart of the old city. For more than a thousand years, Ningbo was one of the great ports of China, a place from which silk, porcelain and tea went to Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia, and where the monks and merchants of those countries landed. It was also the southern end of the Grand Canal, which connected it to Hangzhou and the north, and so it was a meeting point of river, canal and sea. Today, Ningbo-Zhoushan is the busiest cargo port in the world by tonnage, and the old waterfront is a neat, modern riverfront park.
Read the complete Ningbo Sanjiangkou write-up.
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Ningbo Sanjiangkou is where the day begins. Next is Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal.
The Grand Canal is usually thought of as the great waterway linking Beijing and Hangzhou, but it did not stop there. From Hangzhou, the Zhedong Canal, the canal of eastern Zhejiang, continued east through Shaoxing, Shangyu and Yuyao to the port of Ningbo, linking the inland waterway system with the sea and maritime trade. The Shangyu to Yuyao section, a waterway of rivers and canals through the flat, fertile plain south of Hangzhou Bay, is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage site, inscribed in 2014. Along it, boats carried rice, silk, tea and porcelain for centuries, and towns grew up along its banks with bridges, locks and warehouses.
Read the complete Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal write-up.
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Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal. Next is back through Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal, late in the day. Next is Ningbo Sanjiangkou.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ningbo Sanjiangkou write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ningbo Sanjiangkou. That is the ride.
Ningbo Sanjiangkou → Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal is 61 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal → Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Jiaxing-Hangzhou Section of Jiangnan Canal → back through Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal is 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Shangyu-YuyaoSection of Zhedong Canal → Ningbo Sanjiangkou is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.