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The main (and only) road from Kathmandu to Pokhara was once contructed with Chinese help. There are several places to stay and eat between those two towns, like this teahouse. Don’t expect anything special: this place has no running water, and there are only a few communal toilets without doors for the whole village, but […]
Cyclists who want to escape from the tropical heat of Malysias coastal areas should climb all the way up to the Cameron Highlands. A good paved road is bringing you up to where the teaplantations start. Even fresh strawberries are available and you will have to sleep under a blanket! 20 of 24 pages
The Malaysian coastal scenery is characterized by vast plantations of banana- or oilpalmtrees. Like on this photo the roads are well maintained. So cars tend to speed up. From this point of view traffic on the east coast of the country is more relaxed then on its western counterpart. 19 of 24 pages
No cycling here. The road ends somewhere near New Zealand’s highest mountain. There is a very simple campground and a YH. We camped there in April suffering some very cold nights with temperatures around -10 gr. C. 18 of 24 pages
The main roads off India are often full with overloaded trucks and speeding cars. And numerous cyclists, pedestrians and cattle. As a travelling cyclist you are at the bottom of the traffic-hierarchy. Keep your eyes open all the time! The good part of cycling in India is that off the main roads these trucks and […]
A feast of colours, smells and tastes. Throughout the country there is a wide choice of food and restaurants wherever the travelling cyclist will have to stop. Restaurant are Chinese, Indian or Malay. And for the self catering cyclist almost every town has a real supermarket or nice indoor markets like the one on this […]
That this bottle contains Coca Cola may be obvious to everyone of you. But for the rest it’s not very easy to read Thai script. We learned to read the basics, in order to be able to decipher the roadsigns, which outside the main cities often are written in Thai only. A similar problem arises […]
Another alternative accomodation in India is the PWD- or dakbungalow. Built by the British for the travelling officials of the Public Works Department, nothing changed since they left. Officially this type of accomodations is not meant for the individual traveller. We even had to write a reservation-letter on the spot to the Chief Inspector of […]
It took us some time before we recognised in this green plant, the clove so familair to us in the kitchen.. The scent of cloves is always present in Indonesia, as it is an essential ingredient of the local ‘kretek’ cigarettes. 14 of 17 pages
Cycling in Thailand means passing at least a temple a day. We started cycling in Changmai in the north of Thailand amd worked our way south to Bangkok and further to Huahin where we took a train to Koh Samui Island. Cycling Thailand was generally relaxed. The roads were good and places to stay and […]
The ever present mosques. Although all religions are equal in Malaysia, islam is more equal then others. Malaysia is definitively a moslim country but cycling around is easy going. Women can wear shorts without being stared at or being hassled. 13 of 17 pages
In the australian outback cardrivers fear these giant trucks called ‘road-trains’. ‘Move off the road as soon as you spot one…’, said our guide-book. But we had no complaints at all: the road-trains literally went out of their way to overtake us. 13 of 24 pages
This photo gives a good impression of traffic in an average Indian town: cyclists and pedestrians still largely outnumber motorised vehicles (although we noticed on a later visit to India a remarkable increase of the number of cars, like everywhere else in the world!) 12 of 17 pages
