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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From Yonggang-ŭp it runs 200 km to Yonggang-ŭp; allow about 3 h 58 of riding. The stops in between: Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1, Homam-ri Sasin and back through Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Susan-ri is a burial mound near the west coast of North Korea, a few kilometres from the Taedong River estuary and the barrage that closes it off. Under the earth lies a stone chamber painted with murals from the Goguryeo kingdom, which ruled the northern Korean peninsula and much of Manchuria from the first centuries BC until 668 AD. The tomb belongs to the Complex of Koguryo Tombs, which UNESCO listed in 2004. The wall paintings show figures, animals and the four guardian creatures of the cardinal directions, and they are among the oldest and most vivid pictures in the region.
Read the complete Susan-ri Tomb write-up.
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Susan-ri Tomb is where the day begins. Next is Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1, 43 km on.
This is a place almost no one reading these words will be able to reach on two wheels, and it is better to say so plainly. Tokhwa-ri Tomb No. 1 lies in the countryside north of Pyongyang, in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, among a group of burial mounds from the kingdom of Goguryeo. Independent travel in North Korea is not possible. Foreign visitors, when the country admits them at all, travel only on organised tours with official guides, follow fixed itineraries and are not allowed to drive or ride. Citizens of some countries, including the United States, are barred from travelling there by their own governments, and many others are strongly advised against it.
Read the complete Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1 write-up.
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Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1 comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Homam-ri Sasin.
The Four Guardians, the dragon of the east, the tiger of the west, the red bird of the south and the black tortoise entwined with a snake in the north, rule the walls of the Homam-ri tomb. Painted more than fifteen hundred years ago in the Koguryo kingdom, which dominated Korea and parts of Manchuria in those centuries, they are drawn in sweeping lines and bright mineral colours, and they twist across the stone as if in motion. The tomb is in the area around Pyongyang, in North Korea, and the whole group of Koguryo tombs was listed by UNESCO in 2004.
Read the complete Homam-ri Sasin write-up.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach Homam-ri Sasin. Next is back through Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1, 43 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1, late in the day. Next is Susan-ri Tomb.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Susan-ri Tomb write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Susan-ri Tomb. That is the ride.
Susan-ri Tomb → Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1 → Homam-ri Sasin is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Homam-ri Sasin → back through Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1 is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tokhwa-ri Tombs No. 1 → Susan-ri Tomb is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.