Yongyuan – Badaling – Beijing

4th June 2014            21-31’C             284km
Yongyuan – Badaling – Beijing

Another 280km down the roads of China, and towards Mongolia.  Today I visited a more touristy section of the Great Wall, at Badaling.

Before then riding into downtown Beijing in peak hour, and all the joys of riding in a city full of mad crazy drivers wanting to get home.  Actually, Beijing traffic was far more sedate than Chengdu, although I still had to be on my guard at all times.   You can feel the difference when you enter a capital city, capitals seem to just feel at ease with themselves, and it shows in the design, the people the structure.  Of course, capital cities always see their more than fair share of investment, so it follows that they should be more refined and functional.