Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Australia | Free camping at Ilford Distances are large in Australia. Even in the more densily populated states like New South Wales and Victoria it may be impossible to get to the next campground in one day cycling. Free camping is possible everywhere. […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Indonesia | Spices 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’ […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Nepal | More curious kids Shy, but also very interested in the unfamiliar sight that we must be for these be for these Nepalese children. | Next [ 1 of 8 pages ]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion On the road | A Dutch treat around the world As an around-the-world cyclist you have a big chance of appearing in local newspapers or even on radio or television. Here we feature in The Northern Daily Leader , a local newspaper in […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Thailand | Guardian at the Chapel Royal Detail of one of the numerous guardians at the Royal Palace complex. The Chapel Royal is definitely the highlight of a visit to Bangkok. Previous | Next [ 3 of 6 pages ]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Australia | Aboriginal Rockpainting Kakadu NP is more than 250 km’s east of Darwin. It’s a dead-end road, so to visit the park we cycled 500 km’s. We got as far as Oenpelli. Going further east is aboriginal land which entered by permit. […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion India | Lunchtime Cycling in India means always people around. When we stopped for lunch we waited untill the street was deserted to find a quiet place off the road. More often than not we were spotted within minutes and ended up like […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion On the road | Beware of the kea! The Kea is the curious New Zealand parrot, infamous for demolishing everything that can be demolished…. Yes, they tried their skills on our bikes. So watch out, don’t leave your precious bicycle unattended. | Next […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Thailand | Shopping for buddha’s large and small, goldplated and wooden, cheap and expensive: Buddhas for sale for alle purposes in this shop in the busy streets of Bangkok | Next [ 1 of 6 pages ]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Malaysia | Cycling on the west coast 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 […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion India | Ashram accommodation In all Indian cities accommodation in guesthouses or hotels is easy to find. But as a cyclist you will often have to stay in small villages . At one of these occasions locals directed us to the local ashram. […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Singapore | Chinese hell The Tiger Balm Gardens are one of those unusual tourist-attractions. The Chinese Hell is depicted in numerous figures. People are cut in pieces, burned strangled etc. Getting there on your bike is possible but the traffic is heavy so […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Meeting people | Curious kids on the road to Pokhara As always locals are very much interested in our ‘high tech’ bicycles. The locals themselves do not cycle very much, the roads in the Nepali Himalayas are narrow, bumpy and almost never flat. […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Malaysia | Indoor Market 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 […]