Day 1 - Beijing to Juyongkuan

Downtown Backpacker in Hutong Beijing with Heather n Ulla
Zero km start in Tiananmen Square
Road out of Beijing
Lunch in Wenquan 45km NW of Beijing

Today's Distance: 75km
Average Speed: 13.8 max 35.5
Time on Bike: 5hr 25min
Ascent: 1% max 2%
.Today's spending: rmb 22
Total Distance to date: 75km
Total spending to date:rmb 22

Fr Downtown backpacker ride to Tiananmen Sq to officially start our b2p cyclometer set to zero & photo taken with Heather/Ulla.Armed with a Garmin GPS & beijing city map,surprisingly we ride out of this crowded city without much trouble.Lunch in Wenquan 45km NW beijing.Traffic is terrible and dusty all the way.trees were planted on both side s of road but all without leaf.People were friendly and stare at us when we rode passed.Heather/Ulla dont speak mandarin and I am the one do all the enquries with the locals.Juyongkuan is another entrance to Great Wall and the hotel is realkly expensive rmb 680 for 3 beds. We had to force ourself to camp by the roadside and fortunately we packed some food staffs with us earlier.the nite is really cold and with trucks passing a 100 times. 3 of us cramp into my tent and wa cant straighten our legs. It was totally unexpected that we had to wildcamp in our very 1st day !!!!