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★ Great arc of the great Shangri-La - 21 days Difficulty: Challenging Shangrila, most people know this name from a mythological novel called “The lost horizon” written by an American named Hilton. In Tibetan language, Shangrila means holy land or a secret land far from modern civilization, means Utopia. But in fact, Shangrila does exist. It is a big region include eastern This trip starts from Lanzhou—one of a very important city of the Silk Road, head south to northwest Sichuan, then follow the Traverse mountain all the way to northwest Yunnan ,and end trip in LiJiang. The highlights of this 21-day trip are: Muslem culture on Here is the day by day itinerary: D1, Group meet in Cruising in D2, Drive out of the heavy traffic section all the way to Linxia city. D3, Xiahe—Langmusi Drive to Hezuo and start cycling, grassland becoming bigger and bigger. Langmusi located in a valley on the border of D4, Langmusi—Tangke Ride on a back road deep in a pasturing area, follow the Yellow river up stream. Tangke is on the first bend of D5, Tangke— The courser in this area maybe make our bikes shamed, however, our “horses” don’t need any time to eat grass… This road is still a back road, we can see lots of black yak-hair nomadic tents. Marmots crossing the road often, they never have any sense of traffic rules. D6, Discover in D7, It’s a long riding day, but the landscape is so amazing, when will climb up to the first mountain pass in the morning, we could see the whole holy town is in the golden sunshine. Wild animals might cross the road sometime—they have no sense of traffic rules. Road keep going with the head water of Dadu river, people live along the river make life by part herding part farming and part of gold mining. They believe a very old branch of Tibetan Buddhism—Jolang sect, and only there. D8, Rangtang—Luhuo This section is seldom traveled by westerners, Luhuo is famous for it’s forests, and it used to be a very important county for logging, and Tibetan there built houses by using lots of huge log, each one might be more than a house, more like a castle. D9, Luhuo—Ganzi A hard mountain pass is Luoguo which has three tops to torture us.
Tibetan nuns could be seen when we climbing up form a small village,
they always curiously stop you and ask you strange questions, like
“How could you change your eyes into blue?”Khampa people are
more open in this area, some times they even want to have a photo D10, Ganzi One day research in Ganzi by support vehicle. Or have one day rest. D11, Ganzi—Xinlong A rolling road goes along the Yalong river—One of the major tributary of the Yangtze. It’s a warm valley with breezee on your face, a very nice relax riding day. D12, Xinlong—Litang This section is really hard, out of Xinlong, after crossing a bridge of the Yalong river, road becoming rough and muddy. But the country sight is so nice, people there use very short hoes for farming, they bend really hard for working. I don’t why they don’t use a longer shaft? Litang is a high altitude city( D13, Litang—Daocheng—Yading Today we have a big mountain pass to cross, huge moraine are everywhere along the road, you can choose some of them to do a little bit bowldering. D14, Yading Yading is a national park where the three holy mountain stand: the Avoloketchisavara, Manjushri, Charnodorji. We will have a one day trek to have a view of them. D15, Yading—Derong Because of the distance is too long and the road all paved by cement. We will drive all the up hill road and cycle all the down hill section. And also, the most beautiful view is all on the down hill sections. D16, Derong—Benzilan Today we will get into D17, Benzilan—Zhongdian Cycle along the Yangtze, cross two mountain passes to Zhongdian, Zhongdian located in a wide valley between the Yangtze and We will visit the “lesser D18, Zhongdian—Sanba A tough day witch is about D19, Sanba—Walnut grove Today we have two short continuous mountain passes to conquer. After that we will have a very long down hill road all the way to Daju, a small town built on the Yangtze riverside terrace. And then we drive D20, Walnut grove—Qiaotou—Lijiang Cycle through the Tiger Leaping Gorge, drive to the First D21, Trip end.
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