Loading ...Three weeks ago, on Sunday, November 4th, we’ve decided to go to 无锡 (WúXī) for a one day trip by mountainbike in Sēnlín Park (森林公园).
Thomas & Georges were participating a downhill contest, so it was a good reason to have a look to this place.
Sēnlín Park (森林公园) is a small hill (maybe 250meters high) emerging in the West part of the town. 
If you continue towards the West, you’ll arrive at Tàihú Lake (太湖). It seems that there are also some nice place over there to ride mountainbike (next time we’ll explore Mǎshān zhèn 马山镇).
Above: Georges’ friend, Emily, Georges, Thomas, Mei & Thomas friend.
Shanghai - WúXī is a 1hour 30minutes trip by long distance bus (Ticket: 55rmb + Extra fee for the bikes: 15rmb), or 55minutes trip by fast train (Ticket: 30rmb for fast, 26rmb for normal. Extra fee for the bikes: 0rmb).
For railway station & bus station locations, see on the map below.
Foremost, you have to ride 11.5km in the town, from the railway station up to the hill.
It was my first time in WúXī, and it seems that’s just a regular-boring-Chinese city…
Then, the easiest way to go on the top of the hill is to use the new road starting on the West part of the park (6km up to the top).
This road is perfect for rollerskating downhill!! 
Smooth tar & almost no cars, as it is a dead end way.
Then, you have a lot of paths going down.
Here are some pics of the downhill contest path:
And here are some pics of the path, on the North side of the park, that we’ve chosen (see the map for details). Not so bad, but at the end there are a lot of stairs…
I think that there are betters tracks elsewhere. Anyway it was funny 
Here is the map with locations and all the details:
Here are the pictures and the slideshow!
As usual you can download high resolution pics thru my FTP server or thanks to the Add to cart function in the Pictures section.
More pics:
2006 WúXī downhill contest