When  to cycle ?
The weather in Hunan Province of the south of China  gets hotter from June. Usually, July and August are the hottest mounths. It rains but stops soon, cloudy or super heat from the sunlight. If you are keen on cycling, swimming and photographing,summer is the best time for your cycle in south China.The weather for July is around 25-37 degree centigrade.

What you need ?

1.  Do not backpack anything when we cycle (that’s why we suggest a cycling jersey with your camera or phone in the back pocket available anytime).
2. Thin trousers and long sleeve cycling jersey (or over sleeves at least) is more suitable than short one to protect us from the sunlight (sun cream is useless in my eyes as it only protects you not get skin hurt, you are still getting very brown after just one day cycling here in summer), our skin get hurt very easily when on the mountain areas where there is no shade at all.
3. Light and thin rain coat is necessary (it will be very hot no matter what kind of rain coat you wear, so they are only for heavy raining in trekking days – not too much chances to use), it will also help us to keep warm when cycle down the big mountains.
4. 1-2 cycling jerseys (with back pockets on your back) is very suggested. We sells our companies cycling jersey at only extra price CNY200/USD30 so you can buy ours if you want, as for a good memory of this trip, and also they are very nice for summer cycling as they are colored white, you can pay cash for it if you are in Zhangjiajie.

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5. The cloths dries very fast in summer here, so you can simple wash the jerseys every night and usually it dries the next morning (or even dries during our cycling after the biking in the rains). But it dries slowly during the raining season. In most of the hotels in smaller towns/villages, laundry services are NOT available.
6. The food here (also in many southern part of China is mainly salty), there are too much type of snacks and food here, so about 1/10 of the former guest cannot digest well after tasting too much delicious food. We are not allowed to introduce medicine to guests as it’s very sensitive between a company and a guest, so please bring some pills or own medicine helps you to digest if possible.
7. Please bring your own saddle, pedals, or helmet if you do not confident enough on our MTBs. (Hydraulic disk brake, 27 speed, mountain bike weights around 13KG, 26*1.75 wheels with hybird tires).
8. Mosquitoes are common in summer, we usually use electronic mosquito killer, or special smokes to again it while sleep, but those smokes also make us not so comfortable. The mosquitoes here bites but NOT carrying any diseases, they just make you itch.

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