2005 YinChuan Ride:

The YinChuan ride goes through 5 provinces if the ride heads out of Beijing from the north and returns from the south. It goes through Inner Mongolia, NingXia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei before returning to Beijing. Inner Mongolia has flat roads and and the landscape is mostly desert and plains. The sky is usually very blue and clear while the temperature is a bit cold during October. Coming back to Beijing from the south we hit coal country. The road back through Shanxi is one of the roughest roads in China, aside from poor road conditions, it is jammed with trucks carrying coal, and the sky is forever grey. It is a definite challenge. Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi and it is a bit of a boring town though it is rapidly changing. One can go to the famous walled city of PingYao along the way. This walled cisty is famous because it use to be the banking and financial center of China.

YinChuan is the capital of Ning Xia is the province and is famous in history as the cradle of Chinese civilization. It is where the Xia and the Sheng Dynasty was based. This is where all the pictograms where found on turtle shells, and is the earliest record of the Chinese language.

A great thing abour riding around China is that every city that we go to we are greeted by friends and other Chang Jiang 750 clubs.

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