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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326 km from Huolu to Huolu, about 4 h 42 of riding. On the way it passes Wulong Karst - Furong Cave, Jinfoshan Karst and back through Wulong Karst - Furong Cave. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In Wulong, in the mountains of Chongqing, the rock is the architecture. The karst here, a limestone landscape of caves, gorges and sinkholes, has been carved by water over millions of years into huge forms, among them three natural bridges, giant stone arches that span a river gorge. Tianlong, Qinglong and Heilong bridges, each one rising well over a hundred metres, with spans of tens of metres, are among the biggest natural bridges in the world, and the river runs beneath them, in forest so deep that the light is green.
Read the complete Wulong Karst - Three Natural Bridges write-up.
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Wulong Karst - Three Natural Bridges is where the day begins. Next is Wulong Karst - Furong Cave.
Wulong lies in the folded mountains of southeastern Chongqing, where the Wu river has carved its way through limestone for millions of years, and the result is among the most dramatic karst landscapes in China. It forms part of the South China Karst, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the area includes Furong Cave, the Three Natural Bridges and the Qingkou Giant Doline, a sinkhole so large that it holds a forest inside it. The scale of everything is hard to take in until you stand at the edge.
Read the complete Wulong Karst - Furong Cave write-up.
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Wulong Karst - Furong Cave comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Jinfoshan Karst.
Jinfo Mountain rises out of the humid hills of southern Chongqing like a lump of dark green stone, its summit around twenty-two hundred metres, ringed by sheer limestone cliffs that fall for hundreds of metres in places. The name means Golden Buddha, and the story is that at sunset the cliffs of the peak catch the last light and take on the colour and shape of a seated figure. The mountain is a tableland, a block of limestone lifted high and sliced by weather, and the top is covered in clouds for much of the year, in a world of mist, bamboo, moss and rhododendron.
Read the complete Jinfoshan Karst write-up.
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about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach Jinfoshan Karst. Next is back through Wulong Karst - Furong Cave.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wulong Karst - Furong Cave write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Wulong Karst - Furong Cave, late in the day. Next is Wulong Karst - Three Natural Bridges.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wulong Karst - Three Natural Bridges write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Wulong Karst - Three Natural Bridges. That is the ride.
Wulong Karst - Three Natural Bridges → Wulong Karst - Furong Cave is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wulong Karst - Furong Cave → Jinfoshan Karst is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Jinfoshan Karst → back through Wulong Karst - Furong Cave is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Wulong Karst - Furong Cave → Wulong Karst - Three Natural Bridges is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.