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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Do you every get out in to the countryside?
Springs is here and it is starting to warm up.
For me that means two things:
Getting my ass back into the gym and getting out of the house more to enjoy nature (whenever possible in China).
Recently, I have been doing some mountain climbing, hiking, camping and fishing. It has done wonders for my sanity and is a nice break from the hassles of the city.
So do you get out of the city? Got any planned hiking or camping trips? Got any good spots to share in your region?
Same as Hulk, some of my wife's family live in.the countryside. I don't mind it too much but the northern countryside is a barren wasteland. It reminds me of a nuclear wasteland from fallout.
I'm currently trying to establish new China Merchants Bank Gold account, which will enable me (I hope!) to purchase cycling parts online.
I want to buy parts for my road 'machine' on Performance Bike, US website, which doesn't ship to China. The parts I need are essential to put my 'machine' back into move.
I secured mailing address in CA, from where I'll ship parts to my address in Henan. We'll see, how that will end up.
I'm heading to HK in few weeks, where I was thinking I could simply purchase road bike parts with cash, buTT.......in HK, they mostly sell mountain bike parts as per online info.
If I'll be successful with online purchase, I'll be heading to the countryside in a month.
Complicated, I know.
icnif77:
See this for countryside:
https://www.yahoo.com/travel/pucker-up-kissing-wolves-in-norway-116259534867.html
Excellent article!
kikikillercat:
check out kunming....because the weather is so good all year there are many road bike shops there. rich guy owners with bikes and parts beyond anything i have seen in the states. lots of good long rides there too.
I live in Guangzhou & try to have one day out each weekend with my wife. It's a definite advantage having a car. One hours drive north we've got Maofengshan & and a few other "mountain" parks to walk around & then south of GZ we've got some reasonable places like Hai'ou Dao & Nandha for walking, cycling & recently we've discovered canoeing.
I'm also planning a few trips to the beach so would love recommendations for places in Guangdong with okay beaches (we prefer less crowded ones!)
mike695ca:
Theres a nicer beach in yangjiang called zapo. Its ok. Thes shangcuhandao and xiachuandao. Shenzhen has xiaomeisha and dameisha. Was there this week and it was not crowded and clean.
Hotwater:
Cheers Mike. Been to Zhapo town. Beach was good but stupid that you could only swim in a cordoned off area about 200 meters wide & had to pay to get into that area. I'd forgot about that area. If you drive about 15 minutes along the coast there's a better beach that is almost empty. Zhapo was bloody expensive though....700-900/night for hotels!
Will check out details on the other beaches. I'd seen photos of the two in Shenzhen & they looked too busy for my tastes.
hi2u:
For Shenzhen, I recommend xichong or dongchong beach. They're much farther than dameisha and hence much less Chinese go there. Just be warned that traffic on Saturday afternoon can be unbearable as the roads are really small and some odd weekends have lots of people going there at once, and only go there if you actually plan to enjoy the beach or go camping as there's really nothing else there.
All the time. A lot of family members live out there.
I love the countryside in China.
Same as Hulk, some of my wife's family live in.the countryside. I don't mind it too much but the northern countryside is a barren wasteland. It reminds me of a nuclear wasteland from fallout.
I have never in the years in China been to a place that I would qualify as countryside. I've been to the sticks, the boons the crappy villages, but not country side. To me country side is unadulterated nature, wild forests and perhaps some green farm land. Just doesn't exist in China. There is concrete pavements everywhere, old worn out buildings, never just nature.
I know it is out there, it is just not very accessible on a weekend trip.
I ride out into the countryside several times a week. Going to again this afternoon given I've got the time and it's too early to knock the top off a coldy.
All I get to see is desert and oil wells, desert and oil wells. Nothing else here.
Oh! To the north of town there are some barren mountains that are named after Genghis Khan but he and his Mongol mates didn't actually go over them. His trails took him a little further north, through the Altai Mountains.
Our little Genghis Khan's are nothing much, I can ride up and through them. The Altai's, though, are serious mountains so how the hell did they manage to get over them way back then?
Formidable!
Maybe not every week, but often enough and for various reasons. But it's not my countryside. I especially tense up when driving on those extra narrow roads in the hilly Sichuan countryside.