The maps under part 1 cover the distance from the Kyrgyz border to the Yellow River
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Day 125 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Halfday. Sunshine, tailwind and downhill = almost like a rest day…)
Distance: 66.2 km
Traveling time 5.15 hours
Cycling time 3.35 hours
Average speed 18.5 km/h
Top speed 38.5 km/h
Altitude gained 207 m
Altitude lost 475 m
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Day 124 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Sunshine, cool temperatures in the morning and warmer as we got lower. We had a light headwind in the afternoon)
Distance: 120.9 km
Traveling time 8.23 hours
Cycling time 6.25 hours
Average speed 18.8 km/h
Top speed 49.0 km/h
Altitude gained 580 m
Altitude lost 1129 m
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Day 123 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Cold and rainy morning, only 8-9 degrees. It stopped raining after lunch and temperatures rose a little but the sky stayed cloudy. Light tailwind)
Distance: 105.8 km
Traveling time 7.46 hours
Cycling time 5.10 hours
Average speed 20.5 km/h
Top speed 50.8 km/h
Altitude gained 373 m
Altitude lost 887 m
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Day 122 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Cold morning with sunshine. Cold and cloudy afternoon (12 degrees), headwind)
Distance: 97.0 km
Traveling time 7.15 hours
Cycling time 3.59 hours
Average speed 17.3 km/h
Top speed 24.5 km/h
Altitude gained 574 m
Altitude lost 1138 m
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Day 121 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Cool morning and cold afternoon (7 degrees), tailwind)
Distance: 62.1 km
Traveling time 9.19 hours
Cycling time 5.27 hours
Average speed 11.0 km/h
Top speed 41.0 km/h
Altitude gained 1416 m
Altitude lost 265 m
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Day 120 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Sunshine, light tailwind, nice temperature and slowly uphill)
Distance: 68.8 km
Traveling time 7.15 hours
Cycling time 3.59 hours
Average speed 17.3 km/h
Top speed 24.5 km/h
Altitude gained 802 m
Altitude lost 38 m
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Day 119 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Sunshine, light tailwind, moderate temperatures and no flat tyres. If all cycling days could be like this one…)
Distance: 142.6 km
Traveling time 8.36 hours
Cycling time 5.59 hours
Average speed 23.8 km/h
Top speed 45.5 km/h
Altitude gained 338 m
Altitude lost 450 m
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Day 118 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Tailwind and downhill, then headwind, a heavy rain shower and 12 degrees cold for 25 km before the headwind came back. )
Distance: 141.3 km
Traveling time 9.06 hours
Cycling time 5.42 hours
Average speed 24.8 km/h
Top speed 48.2 km/h
Altitude gained 570 m
Altitude lost 745 m
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Day 117 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Medium headwind, nice temperatures and gradually uphill all day)
Distance: 113.3 km
Traveling time 9.33 hours
Cycling time 5.49 hours
Average speed 19.3 km/h
Top speed 31.3 km/h
Altitude gained 448 m
Altitude lost 68 m
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Day 116 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Headwind all day and slowly uphill. Nice temperatures)
Distance: 88.0 km
Traveling time 9.24 hours
Cycling time 6.03 hours
Average speed 14.5 km/h
Top speed 23.0 km/h
Altitude gained 282 m
Altitude lost 52 m
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Day 115b (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(This is the track from the bus station in Hami to our hotel)
Distance: 2.5 km
Traveling time 0.26 hours
Cycling time 0.13 hours
Average speed 11.3 km/h
Top speed 14.8 km/h
Altitude gained 16 m
Altitude lost 2 m
Day 115a (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(This is the track from the culvert to where we hitchhiked into Hami. Very strong headwind and a not functional pedal was a bad combination)
Distance: 17.4 km
Traveling time 1.44 hours
Cycling time 2.05 hours
Average speed 10.0 km/h
Top speed 13.3 km/h
Altitude gained 238 m
Altitude lost 35 m
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Day 114 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Misty morning with some headwind. No wind during early afternoon, but late in the afternoon a crosswind picked up quickly and within 10 minutes it grew so strong we could no longer stand upright and had to seek emergency shelter in a culvert)
Distance: 63.7 km
Traveling time 8.38 hours
Cycling time 3.56 hours
Average speed 16.2 km/h
Top speed 30.6 km/h
Altitude gained 381 m
Altitude lost 127 m
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Day 113 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Terribly hot in the Turpan depression during the early afternoon. Lowest point we reached was -47 meters below sea level)
Distance: 92.2 km
Traveling time 8.02 hours
Cycling time 5.16 hours
Average speed 17.5 km/h
Top speed 36.6 km/h
Altitude gained 578 m
Altitude lost 206 m
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Day 112 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Half day. Started by repairing a puncture on JE’s front wheel. Headwind when rolling into Turpan which is extremely hot.)
Distance: 68.0 km
Traveling time 4.52 hours
Cycling time 4.04 hours
Average speed 16.7 km/h
Top speed 28.4 km/h
Altitude gained 393 m
Altitude lost 401 m
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Day 111 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Cool morning, sunshine, once down in the Turpan depression it got extremely hot. Nice downhill. Two flat tyres today on JE’s bike. One on the rear and one on the front tyre)
Distance: 119.2 km
Traveling time 11.48 hours
Cycling time 6.33 hours
Average speed 18.2 km/h
Top speed 49.3 km/h
Altitude gained 879 m
Altitude lost 1803 m
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Day 110 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Sunny. Tailwind in the afternoon. Joakim got a flat tyre on his front wheel)
Distance: 155.0 km
Traveling time 9.18 hours
Cycling time 7.06 hours
Average speed 21.8 km/h
Top speed 51.5 km/h
Altitude gained 575 m
Altitude lost 676 m
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Day 109 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Very strong wind of 10 m/s from NE which meant headwind for us. We delayed the start until the wind was less strong. Halfday.)
Distance: 59.3 km
Traveling time 6.25 hours
Cycling time 3.53 hours
Average speed 15.3 km/h
Top speed 31.0 km/h
Altitude gained 351 m
Altitude lost 247 m
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Day 108 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Headwind during most of the day. The heat is back although not as hot as in Uzbekistan. We got four flat tyres)
Distance: 138.8 km
Traveling time 11.39 hours
Cycling time 6.52 hours
Average speed 20.2 km/h
Top speed 43.9 km/h
Altitude gained 364 m
Altitude lost 405 m
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Day 107 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(A nice tailwind during the afternoon and a forecast of headwind tomorrow made us change the plan to stop in Luntai in order to continue further)
Distance: 178.6 km
Traveling time 10.29 hours
Cycling time 7.30 hours
Average speed 23.8 km/h
Top speed 38.2 km/h
Altitude gained 454 m
Altitude lost 396 m
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Day 106 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Tailwind until last two hours. Got a flat rear wheel again. Had a nice average of 24.5 km/h until the flat tyre forced us to limp slowly to the next service station)
Distance: 167.7 km
Traveling time 10.58 hours
Cycling time 8.26 hours
Average speed 19.9 km/h
Top speed 39.6 km/h
Altitude gained 235 m
Altitude lost 427 m
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Day 105 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Half day, cloudy, 26 degrees, wind from NW which was tailwind for us. Got two flats on the rear wheel within 1 km)
Distance: 67.0 km
Traveling time 7.52 hours
Cycling time 3.17 hours
Average speed 20.4 km/h
Top speed 33.1 km/h
Altitude gained 206 m
Altitude lost 103 m
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Day 104 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(No wind except for light headwind during late afternoon, sunny and temperatures around 25-28. Ideal conditions)
Distance: 205.1 km
Traveling time 13.07 hours
Cycling time 9.35 hours
Average speed 21.4 km/h
Top speed 35.3 km/h
Altitude gained 370 m
Altitude lost 393 m
Day 103 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
(Strong crosswind, cool temperatures 20-22 degrees and some rain)
Distance: 111.9 km
Traveling time 10.48 hours
Cycling time 7.09 hours
Average speed 15.7 km/h
Top speed 27.0 km/h
Altitude gained 412 m
Altitude lost 455 m
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Day 102 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
Distance: 116.7 km
Traveling time 9.53 hours
Cycling time 6.33 hours
Average speed 17.8 km/h
Top speed 30.2 km/h
Altitude gained 324 m
Altitude lost 461 m
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Day 101 (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
Distance: 46.2 km
Traveling time 4.01 hours
Cycling time 2.27 hours
Average speed 18.9 km/h
Top speed 38.2 km/h
Altitude gained 232 m
Altitude lost 272 m
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Day 100d Chinese side (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
We cycled from the truck parking area to where we hitch hiked into Kashgar centre.
Distance: 10.2 km
Traveling time 1.03 hours
Cycling time 0.32 hours
Average speed 18.8 km/h
Top speed 34.9 km/h
Altitude gained 35 m
Altitude lost 142 m
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Day 100d Chinese side (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
All the border procedures and the long truck transport on a very bad road wore us down and we hitchhiked from the border control to a truck parking just outside Kashgar. Cheat number 1 so far…..
Distance: 88.8 km
Traveling time 2.43 hours
Cycling time N/A hours
Average speed N/A km/h
Top speed N/A km/h
Altitude gained 334 m
Altitude lost 1105 m
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Day 100c Chinese side (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
First passport control is only a pre-check. The actual border control is done 140 km down the road and it is not allowed to travel independently between the pre-check and the actual passport control. This means that the area between the pre-check and the actual check is de-facto a noman’s land for foreigners and the border guards thus put travelers on trucks and shared taxis
Distance: 138.8 km
Traveling time 4.10 hours
Cycling time N/A hours
Average speed N/A km/h
Top speed N/A km/h
Altitude gained 1502 m
Altitude lost 2104 m
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Day 100b Chinese side (click on map to see details and altitude profiles)
From the border to the first chinese passport control
Distance: 3.7 km
Traveling time 0.11 hours
Cycling time 0.11 hours
Average speed 19.6 km/h
Top speed 36.7 km/h
Altitude gained 2 m
Altitude lost 57 m