China; on the tourist trail - mile 11147
June 28th 2010 We are now on the well trod tourist trail of China; Chengdu for pandas, Xian for the Terracotta Army, Beijing & the Great Wall. Only of course we are not treading we are battling with the traffic. The stunning scenery has mostly gone and the riding involves fighting with all the other traffic on the road in hot and humid conditions. Its not unusual to take to the pavements in really bad traffi
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