In the end the border crossing proved to be relatively straight forward and something of a non-event. As planned all our bikes were loaded onto one bus, us and our bags onto the other, and off we went. To leave…
The most interesting thing in town and stage five
The most interesting thing in town…? Us…! Xianghaungyi is a pretty small city, and the clearly don’t see a lot of westerners – certainly not arriving 30 at a time and wandering round their streets in a mix of cycling…
Stage two
I realised that calling them ‘day one’ and ‘day two’ was going to get confusing because tomorrow is a day, but not a stage as it’s a rest day – so, today was stage 2 and day 2…! Here are…
And just like that – day one done
For each day’s ride we get ‘navigation notes’ which run through proceedings for the day. Coupled with these the crew ‘mark’ the route with orange streamer tape (I’ll take a photo of some tomorrow) so that we can find our…