Canals, houseboats and bicycles are all part of the furniture in Amsterdam. Anyone who has visited the city will tell you that, round here, the humble cyclist rules the road. Cycling lanes are as important as major motorways and official figures from the I am Amsterdam organization estimate about 600,000 bicycles circulate amongst the 750,000 […]
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You may not have heard about this in the news: gasoline is getting more and more expensive. But this will certainly not put a damper on one of the greatest pastimes ever: bike trips! We at Cycling Around The World love bike trips because they’re a photographer’s dream: each new mile is a photo waiting […]
Author: admin Published: Nov 23rd, 2010 Category: Destinations, News, On the road Comments: None TAGS: None I just finished a new tour report on our Cycling Around The World pages. It tells you all the details of latest trip that started in September this year. We started in Fresno and ended in Tom’s Place in […]
Author: admin Published: Jan 23rd, 2012 Category: Destinations Comments: None TAGS: None In August and September 2011 we travelled by bicycle in Mongolia. The trip took four weeks to complete. The total distance cycled was around 900 kms. We started and ended our trip in Ulan Bataar. We first hired a “taxi” to take us […]
Author: admin Published: Dec 4th, 2010 Category: News Comments: None TAGS: None Adventure Cycling invites you to enter your most stunning photos — highlighting the beauty, adventure, and inspiration of bicycle travel — in our 2nd Annual Bicycle Travel Photo Contest. They’re looking for beautiful photography representing the diversity and spirit of bike touring. Your […]
Author: admin Published: Jan 23rd, 2012 Category: Destinations Comments: None TAGS: None In August and September 2011 we travelled by bicycle in Mongolia. The trip took four weeks to complete. The total distance cycled was around 900 kms. We started and ended our trip in Ulan Bataar. We first hired a “taxi” to take us […]
This page is dedicated to the bikes we ride. In 1987 we purchased two Koga Myata World Travellers and we were riding them untill 2004. In 2004 we purchased two custom made Explorers made by Snel Tweewielers in Utrecht (the Netherlands). Components of our bikes The bikes are assembled with Shimano LX and XT (hubs […]
All information on these pages is based in our personal experiences while cycling through South Africa in September 2002. We flew to Durban cycled along the south coast, turned west crossed Lesotho. At the other side we continued through Golden Gate and Royal Natal National Parks, via Howick and Pietermaritzburg back to Durban. On our […]
In October 2006 we cycled around Sikkim (India) and Bhutan. This part of the website contains the detailed tour report and practical information on Sikkim. We started at Bagdogra Airport in West Bengal and biked to Sikkim. The trip took two weeks and ended at Puentsholing at the Bhutanese border where we continued our trip […]
A personal selection of cycling stories. The short descriptions were taken from the books themselves. There is a separate page with titles in Dutch Tim Doherty This breathtaking world; around yhe world by bicycle 1997 – 1999. In the summer of 1997, Tim Doherty set off alone on a daunting round-the-world cycle tour, which turned […]
In October and November 2009 we cycled in Oman. The trip took four weeks to complete. The total distance cycled was around 1200 kms. We started and ended our trip in Muscat. First following the coast to Sur, then travelling south and then west again to the Wahiba Sands area and Nizwa. We climbed the […]
Author: admin Published: Jan 23rd, 2012 Category: Destinations Comments: None TAGS: None In August and September 2011 we travelled by bicycle in Mongolia. The trip took four weeks to complete. The total distance cycled was around 900 kms. We started and ended our trip in Ulan Bataar. We first hired a “taxi” to take us […]
In October 1992 we travelled to the United States to do the highly recommended ‘Around The Grand Canyon biketrip’. We started cycling in St. George (north of Las Vegas) and ended our 1700 km trip in Flagstaff Arizona.
