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Xinchang

Exploring Ancient Xinchang Village

Exploring Ancient Xinchang Village

by Johnny Isaak ·

Fall weather is an excellent time to ride. The overcast skies and cooler temperatures typical for Mid-Autumn Festival make for pleasant cycling. It’s a great time to get out and it the road and spin those pedals, especially in China. 

For Mid-Autumn Festival, our family celebrated the holiday with a family lunch and dinner. In the evening there was an all-nighter playing mahjong for those who could hang. I wasn’t one of them. Besides, I would be playing on scared money anyway. Always wanting to work a bit of adventure cycling in wherever possible, decided to make a couple days of it by riding out to the ancient water town village of Xinchang near where we would be staying. 

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Filed Under: Adventure Cycling Tagged With: adventure cycling, bicycle travel, China, Co-Motion, Divide, Gates Carbon Drive Belt, Johnny Isaak, Jones Gnarwal, Jones Loop H-Bar, Mondial, Rohloff, Schwalbe, water town, Xinchang

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