Day 56 Friday 25th September 322 km (17550 km total)
Rush hour delays & mountain highways
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It took 90 minutes to get just a few kilometers.
We could have got through faster but on this occasion, we had to follow the guide car for the first bit and he couldnt move.
Once out though it was open roads and good ones too.
Once again the route was peppered with examples of the scale of Chinese construction, like this big bridge for the new road.
For some reason when you leave one road and enter another, the link road is often not up to the same standard as the roads eithervside, maybe its a sort of construction no mans land.
The second road had similar major constuction evident. It is interestimg that throughout this china crossing I have seen many many examples of masssive road, bridge & tunnel construction and much of it appears to be recent. China has been appluaded recently for having taken a large part of its population (400million people I believe) from below to above the povery line. Maybe having the state geneate employment by sponsoring huge construction projects is one way of doing this?
The road rose into the clouds at about 2700m, sending the temperature dropping sharply and leading to a little drizzle.
But then it was down into the valley with its warmth and greenery again, And still more bridges...
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