Luopuluoshan Pass To Muli Tibetan Autonomous County, Sichuan Province

Saying huru to Luguhu Lake we had 6 km of lovely round the lake side twisties, then sharp left and straight up and onto a mountain road which took us up and over the first pass, the views over the lake were gobmackinging beautiful and our ever gaining elevation gave us a whole new perspective, this is the awesome part of moto travel and having your own wheels to do what you want to do and go where you want to go while feeling every sense you simply do not get in a car with windows up.

Ellen has put a wee vid together so we can share this with you.

The next part of the assault was flat-ish and villages, then with a left turn it was all on x 10.

Straight into a tight gorge with abrupt but stunning scenery, took my memories back to Peru, this so far is the best part of our trip with scenery overload.

But wait there’s more, send no money (as seen on TV), through the gorge then along some farming flatlands then it became full on in an instant, what I would call the Stelvio Pass of Sichuan Province with a few (lots) of rock feeding on the road and the occasional (lots) of goats sifting around sitting on the road, ad a complement of cattle and some stray sheep and you have the mix in hand.

At first it was weird, virtually all the traffic had gone and apart from the livestock we had the road to ourselves for the good part of around 70km all bar about 4 cars in total.            

We rode through stunning tree covered single lane clifside road, rocky outcrops etc and the highest point took us to 4008 meters above stress level, it just pips Mt Cook by 284 meters which is 3724, however there are no roads on the top of Mt Cook.

If you think you can see yourself riding through here do it, we did and the results were amazing...although dirty LOL.

Bein Kiwis and living in Wanaka I think we are qualified in beautiful and this mountain pass was worthy of beautiful.

Cresting the pass the long downhill opened up the entire valley in front of us, here we have the area of Sichuan Provence which has the Muli Tibetan Autonomous County so the area has a lot of Tibetan people, they are very welcoming and friendly.

At one stage on the downhill leg I had the throttle fully closed for around 10km and in third gear using engine braking at about 45-50-km per hour steady, that gives you an idea of the gradient and length.

The rules here a very very strict about where foreigners can stay, only certain hotels can host foreigners so it was a little interesting getting a place to stay the night (at an undisclosed desination to keep our host out of trouble) without getting raped cost wise being foreigners, normally it is quite the process involving police and all.

Settling in early meant we could spend the time getting this together to share with your guys, we hope you find it amazing appreciating being there is everything.     

The vid, enjoy.