{"id":2150,"date":"2006-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/2006\/06\/15\/j180-6-15-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-06-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T22:00:00","slug":"j180-6-15-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/2006\/06\/15\/j180-6-15-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"J180 – 6\/15\/2006"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vieux paysan. Photo Thomas BREGARDIS<\/span><\/div>\n

Reprise des cours. Photo Thomas BREGARDIS<\/span><\/div>\n

D\u00e9m\u00e9nagement. Photo Thomas BREGARDIS<\/span><\/div>\n

Vieux cordonniers. Photo Thomas BREGARDIS<\/span><\/div>\n

Vieil \u00e9picier. Photo Thomas BREGARDIS<\/span><\/div>\n

Porte traditionnelle Photo Thomas BREGARDIS<\/span><\/div>\n

Regards d’enfants… Photo Thomas BREGARDIS<\/span><\/div>\n

Dans la joie… Photo Thomas BREGARDIS<\/span><\/div>\n

Et la bonne humeur ! Photo Thomas BREGARDIS<\/span><\/div>\n

Photo Thomas BREGARDIS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

D180 – 78.3Km<\/h4>\n

THURSDAY, JUNE 15
N35 38.505 E105 28.020 (1830m) – N35 39.513 E106 10.248 (2290m – 6km after Longde)
78.3 km – 11H08′<\/h5>\n
It was cool and damp when we woke this morning but the sun is already high and will quickly dry our tents.  We continue along highway 312 and Serge is still plagued by fatigue.<\/p>\n

At the 31st kilometers we went through the chicken capital, Jingning, at 1660 meters of altitude.  Obviously, all the small restaurants were selling chickens, cooked and on display by the hundreds, ready to be eaten.  Chicken is cut up and served on a plate or put in a plastic bag for takeaway and you are given plastic gloves with which to eat it.  We still have not seen forks since we arrived in China.  You have to be able to use chopsticks, especially when you leave the tourist route.  We will be in the Ningxia Province for less than 100 km, before entering Gangsu. <\/p>\n

As he has been doing recently, Serge ends his stage with a good climb.  The last 45 km climbed gently but surely to reach 2,300 meters. <\/p>\n

At the 53rd km, the camper left to look for a camp site.  This search led ut to a tunnel which cannot be used by people on foot.  The director would not let Serge go through on foot.  He suggested that we take an alternate itinerary by the mountain, which we went to reconnoiter.  Tomorrow morning Serge will have to start his stage with a climb of 6.5 km to go over a pass, then make a 7 km descent to join highway 312.  That will mean a 6.5 km detour, around the normal road, which goes through the tunnel.<\/p>\n

Every day has its difficulties so here we are, looking for a spot to bivouac.  We are in the midst of a village some 6 Km from Longde, on a hay platform.  After a discussion with the villagers, we have received permission to set up our camp for the night.  The environment is sublime, with a river below us where the villagers get their water. Our camp is always very animated and some 20 children hover around our vehicles: they watch us, they laugh and the older children come talk to us, using the few English words they have learned.  As usual, we are the first westerners with whom they are in direct contact and even the elders are curious and come to have a look.  Serge is in heaven and after dinner he went for a walk down to the river. He admitted that he can’t imagine going home and living again in a house: “I won’t have enough oxygen, I love this life on the road, of a nomad and meeting the Chinese.”  It’s true that here smiles and simplicity replace the stress of the race and material needs.  We have such a need to possess more and more and to be smothered by worldly goods that we simply forget to live.  These people are a reminder and it’s good for us!<\/p>\n

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English translation by Lee Hecht<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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THE INCREDIBLE SERGE GIRARD’S CHALLENGE<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vieux paysan. Photo Thomas BREGARDIS Reprise des cours. Photo Thomas BREGARDIS D\u00e9m\u00e9nagement. Photo Thomas BREGARDIS Vieux cordonniers. Photo Thomas BREGARDIS Vieil \u00e9picier. Photo Thomas BREGARDIS Porte traditionnelle Photo Thomas BREGARDIS Regards d’enfants… Photo Thomas BREGARDIS Dans la joie… Photo Thomas BREGARDIS Et la bonne humeur ! Photo Thomas BREGARDIS Photo Thomas BREGARDIS D180 – 78.3Km […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}