18Xina 04BC to Mulan Shan 木兰山

Not a GPS recording. Drawn manually on a satellite map. I walked this on 2018-03-20. Roughly 35km if you don't get lost like I did. This is part of a walk from Wuhan(A) to Kaifeng(Y) and the Yellow River(Z). Search Wikiloc for "18Xina" and "19Xina" (etc.?) for my China walks.

Overview "18Xina 4-week walk Yangtze to Yellow 武汉开封", Wikiloc ID = 39405196
Previous walk "18Xina 03 AB to Huangpi 黄陂", Wikiloc ID = 38335840
Next walk "18Xina 05CD to Mulan Tianchi 木兰天池", Wikiloc ID = 38337530

I took photos with my mobile phone, but due to technical weakness of that old device, I couldn't use GPS on my 2018 walk.
Info from photo time stamps (and my personal memory of locations):
06h40(0km) start at Hotel; 7h00(0.4km?) breakfast; 7h25-7h35(2.3km) searching for the side road; 7h45(3.2km) back on main road, under bridge; 08h50-8h55(8.9km) looking at way to graveyard, just for curiousity; 09h03(12.3km) crossing river ; 9hXX(12.7km) second breakfast in village; 10h05(12.8km) taking wrong road half-right(NW) instead of continuing ahead(W, then NW), mislead by bad interpretation of a road sign [my notes said I should go to 三合村Sānhécūn, and the road sign said that to 三台店Santaidian "please follow this diretion" ("方向请线行"), I mixed up 三合Sanhe and 三台Santai - the last symbol just means village(村) or place(店) - and after that I think I ended up asking for Santaicun instead of Sanhecun]; somewhat later (14.1km?), I asked for the way (saying "Santaicun"?) and was told to go to the right (east); 10h35 on road S117, km-stone "35"; 10h55(16.8km) under aqueduct; 11h15 after having asked for the way; I am on a very small path between fields and trees (passing water buffalo);11h20(18.0km) back on a better road; 11h55(20.2km) I ask for the way and branch to the right, following a sign to 三台寺村(Santai temple village)"2.5km"; few minutes later another sign to 三台寺村; 12h15 again a sign to 三台寺村; 12h20 a sign tells me I am in 三台村; around this time I take a photo of a giant (Buddha?) statue at least 1km to the north; 12h40(23.8km) I turn around where the road is closed with a gate at its highest point at a kind of construction site [in hindsight the road could lead down to the valley with the giant statue, and there could be a temple village tourist attraction under construction, which is called 三台寺村 (Santai Temple village)]. After walking back where I came from and walking around a village lake, I branch to the west at 13h15(26.3km), into a forest on a low hill, and at 13h50(28.7km) I am finallly on the right track, at a bus stop which says 三合街(Sanhe street, not the wrong 三台Santai). 14h55(34.3km) turn right into larger west-east road; then bend left in a northern direction; 15h50(39.0km) short east bend near lake; then north; 16h00(39.7km) carpenters building a pagoda; past waterfalls; 16h50 leave road left(west), up (not ahead, down) - here, at about 42km, my manually drawn Wikiloc track has an error and skips the first sharp right bend of the uphill road - ; few minutes later a hiking path pole attracts me, but I stay on the road to not get lost again; 17h15 through monumental gate, still on the same road; 18h00-18h05(44.3km) at recepction of big hotel (called a mountain villa? booked out by military?) I am refused nightstay (I even asked to sleep on the sofa of the reception building); continue downroad, nearly getting dark; at around 18:30 I arrive at a simple, clean and comfortable hotel, with a very friendly owner (and his wife) in a wheelchair who was a traveller himself until he suffered a bicicle accident when touring Tibet. I don't remember for sure if my hotel was where I draw it, or at the group of buildings 1/2 km down.