Cycling Tours

We offer half, full and multiday cycling tours. If you would like van support for your ride or would like to mix sightseeing with cycling, then these tours are best for you. We continully tweak and add content to these tours so any suggestions and information is highly welcome and support better future tours.

Local Half Day

Cycle down to Sanyang, visiting some memorial halls along the way, and head along the old street. A guide will be with you, allowing entry to some of the buildings and explaining some of the stories and Huizhou’s history. Tea and cakes will be served in one of the halls along the Sanyang River. On the way back, you will be taken to see some local craft workshops, such as sowing studios, a noodle maker, an ironmonger, a rapeseed oil factory, and a market. A fun way to experience real, authentic rural China. 

Cycle down to Sanyang along the river. Stop at a memorial hall and cycle through tea plantations and mulberry fields along the river to Gaofeng. If you’re on an ebike they will get a quick charge while you have a coffee stop and walk around the town, being shown how the old river village works. For novice cyclists, cycle back along the river, and for strong cyclists, take the hill pass back to Sanyang, getting in some great mountain views. Stop in town at some of the local shops and make your way back to Yingchuang.

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Full Day Tours

Roll out of Yingchuan up to Santang, stop for tea or coffee and and get a short walk around some of the paddy fields for some amazing views of the mountain . Cruse down to Sanyang old town, over the river, park and charge the bikes while you walk up to the Baijiu factory and have a picnic in the local forest. Then head down and get back on bikes and head to Gaofeng, try out some fishing and boating there. Then cycle back over the pass back into Sanyang, stop for some shopping, visit some memorial halls and head back to Yingchuan.

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An epic day on your bike and feet up to GeChuanJian!

Wake to an early big breakfast. Get on your ebike or gravel bike and cycle through Sanyang up through Jinchuan to Gaoshan village. Plugin your ebike if you have one, have a coffee and put on your hiking gear. Walk up to the summit of GeChuanJian, if you’re super fit, or walk to the mountain village a few km away. Have a break at the secret pools, jump in if you’re an experienced swimmer and then meet our guide for a picnic lunch with a great view.  Carry on your hike to digest your lunch and head back on the bikes downhill, taking in the other Gaoshan village if you feel like some extra kms. It’s a fast, gentle downhill, so just take it at your own pace. 

We have some alternatives to this as well. Have a sturdy hike 6km up directly from the homestay to XuJiaWu. Meet the car and bikes there for a picnic lunch. Zoom down the hill back to the homestay. Somewhat shorter than the above. Actually we have a lot of bike & hike options for a full day of hard adventure!

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Multi Day Tours

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Description of levels:

Novice: has some cycling basics and is willing to try some small not too steep hills.
Novice+: someone who rides in the city a bit and has some confidence to try a few steeper hills but nothing too crazy or long.
Spinner: some cycling fitness from gym or urban sports cycling. Able to to ride 50km to 75km but not great with self navigation.
Adventurer: fine with cycling 100km and can follow a GPX route on a bike computer or phone by themselves.
Ultra: happy with whatever we throw at them.

We have ebikes to help with distance and gradient, but you still need to descend. If you’re not sure of your level, try cycling on our little local course first. If you’re happy with that, you’re Novice+. If not, best you keep to Novice routes.

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