Dali & Erhai rides
Lakeside cycling the way it should be — villages, ring road and old-town evenings.

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Lakeside cycling the way it should be — villages, ring road and old-town evenings.
The painter's palette from a lodge that watches the dawn.
The entry 5,000er over the gorge country.
Monastery, gorge road and two dawns at the range.
Liuku to Bingzhongluo on the last wild river.
Jingmai tea forests to the Dai heartland.
The famous high-trail crossing.
Volcanoes, springs and the birds' mountain.
Ranger mornings in the elephant forests.
Terrace mirrors and the canola sea at dawn pace.
The village with no road in, under the unclimbed peak.
Any of these runs privately to your dates — and any two can be re-cut into one line.
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