China National Highway 209 runs from Sonid Left Banner, Inner Mongolia to Beihai, Guangxi province. It is 3,435 kilometres in length and runs south from Huhhot towards Shanxi province, Henan province,
Highway 209 climbing from the Liangtai River valley (Gaoqiao town) toward Wanchaoshan Mt (Wujiaping), in Xingshan County, Hubei
Near Wenshui village (Hongping Town, Shennongjia)
Junction with a Hubei provincial highway in Baishahe Village, Nanyang Town, Xingshan County, Hubei. For the next 52 km to the north (to Muyu) G209 will follow the Xiangping River, doubling as part of the Yichang-Shennongjia Highway; for the 72 km to the southwest, it will be crossing two mountain ranges to get to Badong
A not-yet-improved section of G209 just north of Badong
Muyu is a town in Shennongjia Forestry District, in the west of Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Located on China National Highway 209, it is the main population and services center of the
China National Highway 209
…importance for the national highway system: it is used e.g. by long-distance buses plying the route between Badong and points east. Many parts of the Muyu to Hongping section (in Hubei's Shennongjia Forestry District) are not much better. On the other hand, the section from the Shennongjia National Park…
In the evening in Muyu's main street
The town nestles in a mountain valley whose slopes are covered with forests and tea plantations
Harvesting tea leaves, on a slope right above the hotel area