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The 17,000 kilometre photo was taken on the outskirts of Ya’an, China on 16th September 2011. We had just turned off the G108 road that we followed almost the whole way through China and onto the G318 that would lead us westwards. You can’t tell from the photo but the traffic was busy as usual although we had ducked onto a quiet footpath for a few hundred metres.
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16,000 Kilometre Photo
The 16,000 kilometre photo was taken in the town of Foping, China on 1st September 2011. In an area with 0.4 pandas per square kilometre we were lucky to have three available to pose with us for this monumental photo. To be honest the photo was snapped at 16,012km but we thought the pandas were worth waiting for. Our panda encounters on this day weren’t only with the concrete variety as we unexpectedly had a sighting of a real live panda a few hours earlier. – Posted by Justin
15,000 Kilometre Photo
The 15,000 kilometre photo was taken 50 kilometres south of Erenhot in Inner Mongolia, China on 14th August 2011. The landmark came on our first day cycling in China after catching a train from Ulaanbaatar to quickly exit Mongolia. Having already shopped, slept and eaten in our first well stocked middle of nowhere Chinese town, we cycled the last stretch of sandy Gobi desert land on flat tarmac roads, with only occasional dinosaur sculptures to break things up. We’ll leave you pondering why Emma looks like she’s dressed for summer and Justin for winter, while the clouds behind could swing either way. – Posted by Emma
14,000 Kilometre Photo
The 14,000 kilometre photo was taken alongside Telmen Nuur (lake) on 18th July 2011. In Mongolia every kilometre we cycle feels like a huge achievement with 700 kilometres of this 1000 being cycled off-road. So unlike the 13,000 kilometre photo we were keeping a close eye on our bike computers as we approached this milestone. We are hoping that we will reach tarmac before the next 1000 kilometre mark is passed (both looking suitably rough in the photo). – Posted by Justin
10,000 Kilometre Photo
The epic Black Sea Coast route is the scene for this 10,000 kilometre photo taken on 11th April 2011 near Yaykil, Turkey. The last 1000 kilometres has seen the full range of cold weather cycling conditions, many refusals for payment of cay and the fewest navigational challenges of the trip – we just followed signs to Trabzon with the sea on our left. Next up is Russia where for our next 1000 km photo we will need to employ another hand! – Posted by Emma
13,000 Kilometre Photo
The awesome scenery in the Altay region almost made us miss the 13,000 kilometre mark as on 15th June 2011 we were just outside Onguday, Russia cycling along the Chuysky Tract. The previous few days had seen the flat forested landscape we had become used to change first into rolling hills and then into craggy peaks, sandy grasslands and rushing rivers. Like the 12,000 kilometre photo this one came up so quickly that we had to do a double check of our bike computers and trip notes to make sure it was correct. – Posted by Justin
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