Grading for 4WD Driving or Motorbiking
In recent years, China has put enormous efforts to continuously construct or pave the highways. The road conditions in China have been improved significantly. By the end of 2011, China's highways are over four millions in length, the national highway has accounted to 80% of the total, while the distance of express highway is already more than 100,000 kilometers.
However, there is a fact that some rough or dirt roads still exist in China, especially among mountainous regions in the far west, where the overland trips take place at the most. Plateautours.com always designs the proper overland trips based on personal interests and physical conditions. The 4WD or motor bike tours vary in challenging from the ease, and the drives can generally be divided into three groups: essential drive/ride offering mainly for rented vehicle, where routes are easy to follow, the most of roads are flat tar highways, accommodations and restaurants lie along the way, generally are good in facilities; moderate drive/ride offering either for own or rented vehicle, where routes blend with main tar roads and some dirt roads, accommodations and restaurants could be found on the way, but some are very simple basic amenities that you have to cope with; wilderness drive/ride designing mainly for own vehicle trip, where the route is tailor-made, normally straddling huge mountain or high altitude areas with twisting dirt roads, away from large towns, accommodations and restaurants are basic or even not available, a few nights camping or staying in the motorhome is another experience.
