The China Nobody Sees

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Most people experience China through its cities. The bullet trains, the skylines, the sheer scale of it all. And those cities are extraordinary.

But cycle out of them, and everything changes.

On this leg of our world cycling expedition, my dad and I rode south from Chengdu into the rural heart of Sichuan province. The further we went, the more the China we thought we knew began to fade, replaced by quiet villages, small farms, and a pace of life that felt worlds away from the megacities behind us.

The contrast was unlike anything we'd expected. And the road had a few surprises of its own.

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