After we left Yichang we got into really beautiful country with really
steep mountains and the most awesome highway engineering.
Dozens of tunnels up to 9 km long. Again all double tunnels with 2
lanes each way - think the Terrace tunnel going all the way to Lower
Hutt and another along side it.
The trouble with the GPS in the car is that it doesn't show the main
road only the G318 highway which it's diverted us onto on a couple of
occasions.
We intended to stay in Enshi but all the hotels were full. We got lost
trying to get out of the city and then spent two hours literally
driving in circles. The city has a small Eifel Tower and a line of
very nice window shop brothels on the main street - you get the idea!
So we went on to Lichuan and have a very tidy hotel.
One of the diversions onto the 318 took us through some very Romanian
style villages, very agrarian. Then via a construction site where
people and cars just walked and drove between all the trucks and
excavators doing the road.
There is a new railway being built from
Wuhan to Chengdu and we have been following that a good part of the way.
It must be costing billions.
Lichuan is 1053 meters above sea level. Breakfast at the Lichuan
International Hotel consisted of dumplings, eggs, a firey hot bean
salad and other hot dishes I couldn't identify. Very nice though.
So it's now 8.10am and we are back on the road heading for Wanzhou,
Nanchong and then Chengdu. We have 460km to go and have done 1552km to
date.
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