Nu typhoon Yutu eenmaal is afgezwakt tot een gewoon lagedrukgebiedje op de Chinese Zee fietsen we verder langs de mooie oostkust van Taiwan. Niet zo lang en ver meer want de zuidelijkste punt van het eiland komt in zicht en voor ons is het tijd om nog eenmaal het eiland over te steken. Als je […]
View of Bagan Bagan Bagan Yangon Somewhere on the road to Mandalay Bagan Bhudda’s! Yangon Detail of pagoda in Bagan Where to go? Detail of a temple Taking a nap On the road to Bagan Asking direction in a small village is an adventure View of Bagan Bhudda Sunset at Bagan Inle Lake Road to […]
1492: Columbus ontdekt Amerika. Minder dan 125 jaar later, in 1607, arriveren de Jezuiten in de diepe binnenlanden van Zuid-Amerika, het grensgebied van het huidige Paraguay, Argentinie en Brazilie. Ze stichten er 30 gemeenschappen. Ze onderwijzen de lokale bevolking onder andere in musiceren en lezen en schrijven in het Spa
September 2002 we spent cycling South Africa. On this first visit to the country we went to Kwazulu Natal. From Durban we cycled along the coast, went inland to Underberg. After a detour into Lesotho we entered the country again near Fouriesburg. We visited Golden Gate Highlands NP and Royal Natal NP and continued to […]
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, travelling south and then west again to the Wahiba Sands area and Nizwa. We climbed the road […]
It’s not always possible to arrive in the best season, but with some careful planning you can avoid to arrive in the monsoon season or, in tropical countries, in the hottest months, when cycling may be impossible. Pay special attention for prevailing wind directions, for a strong headwind for weeks, can ruin your cycletrip. But […]
Eigenlijk waren we aan het aftellen naar 4 september. Dan zouden we vertrekken naar Seoul, om 11 weken te fietsen door Zuid-Korea en Taiwan. Zou, want onverwacht werden er in Anja’s tong kwaadaardige cellen aangetroffen. De reis is noodgedwongen geannuleerd en onze nieuwe “reisbestemming” is voorlopig het ziekenhuis. Niet interessant… Lees meer… Het begint er […]
All information on Cycling Around The World is based on bike trips made by Paul van Roekel and Anja de Graaf. We started this site in June 1997. Almost all information is in English. You can use Google Translate to translate the content to any other language. Cycling Around The World is 100% non-commercial, so […]
De plaatsnamen worden met de dag exotischer. En dan is dit nog de Engelse vertaling: in het Gaelic zijn ze helemaal niet uit te spreken. Emliy Brontë, Wuthering Heights. Dat speelt steeds door ons hoofd als we op Skye een woeste heidehoogvlakte oversteken. Op een informatiebord lezen we dat dit type vegetatie ontstaat onder koude […]
From mid September 2017 to mid December 2017 we cycled for three months in Argentina and Paraguay. Our trip started by flying to the Iguazu Falls in the north east of Argentina. From there we cycled to the south and crossed into Paraguay. We crossed Paraguay from the east to the west and entered Argentina again. From […]
While preparing this trip we collected a few files from around the internet. For the convenience of future cyclists these files can be downloaded here. The Cycling in Taiwan Collection (Map with hundreds of camping areas (kml), a cycling map of Taipei (pdf), Routebook Taiwan Full Circle (pdf), Route nr 1 (kml & gpx), Maps […]
In May 2018 we cycled 1600 kilometers (mostly) in Scotland. Our route is below. Click on the icons to get additional information. Where ever possible we tried to follow the bicycle routes of the National Cycle Network. Although the bike paths on these routes are not always very bicycle friendly it’s still a recommended way […]
In September and October 2007 we cycled in the southern part of Uganda. This page contains background info about our Uganda tour. We started from Entebbe and bikes to Fort Portal in the west, continued south to Kibale Forest NP and Queen Elisabeth NP and then turned east again to Mbarara, Lake Mburo NP, Masaka […]
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, travelling south and then west again to the Wahiba Sands area and Nizwa. We climbed the road […]
