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Funds raised by Women for Women will be spent on groundbreaking medicatal research to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a range of devastating conditions affecting women and their babies. This includes brain injury, miscarriage, infertility, cancer and genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy. They will also help train women scientists and clinicians of the highest calibre to work on major research projects with the fundamental aim of ensuring women’s ongoing good health throughout their lives and to help more women have a healthy pregnancy and baby. Day 1 – Saturday Overnight direct flight from London to Beijing. Day 2 – Sunday Outskirts of Beijing. Early afternoon arrival and transfer to our hotel at Shun Yi, where we spend the rest of the day bike fitting and hearing more about the challenge ahead. Shun Yi - Ping Gu - 93kms approx. Five Towers – Mutianyu – Ming Tombs - 106 kms approx Today is more challenging. We cycle to the magnificent Great Wall at Mutianyu on a gentle uphill route with a steep climb at the end. After lunch we continue cycling, first downhill then on to a quiet country roads. We cycle through a tunnel cut into the hillside and visit one of the Ming Tombs before arriving at our overnight accommodation, the Oil Workers’ Sanitorium at Shinsanling. Day 7 – Friday Badaling Great Wall – Ju Yong Pass It’s an early morning wake up call for our last day of cycling which starts on minor roads with little traffic and then on bike lanes. We pass the entrance of Kangxi Grass-Land towards the Badaling part of the Great Wall on an undulating route before a lovely downhill to reach our finishing line at the Ju Yong Pass, a quiet area of the Wall. After visiting the Wall and having lunch we transfer to our hotel in Beijing by coach.
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