Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Nepal | Biking the Kathmandu Valley For those who do not want to cycle steep graded with their bikes (“what are you doing in Nepal ?”) the valley of Kathmandu offers excellent cycling possibilities Previous | Next [ 7 of 8 pages ]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Nepal | On the road to Pokhara Do no expect a lot of facilities while cycling in Nepal. The roads are narrow, the places to stay cheap and dirty. The food monotonously dahl and veggies. Previous | Next [ 6 of 8 pages […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Nepal | Bikes in hotelroom From the first day on of our trip we insisted in taking the bikes into our hotelroom even if it was on the 4th floor and no elevators were available. Locking your bike up in your room is […]
Submit a site Yahoo Cycling Travelogues There are hundreds of links on this page. Always a good place to start looking for information although the descriptions are a bit short! Cycling Around The World is listed among the most popular sites. Rated : Jan Boonstra’s Cycling Pages ” The first cycling tour I […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion On the road | Road side billboard These billboards are so enormous that even near the equator they make convenient shade for tired cyclists. Previous | Next [ 21 of 24 pages ]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion On the road | At the PWD Bungalow 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 […]
Country From To Distance New Zealand Christchurch Airport Christchurch City 18 New Zealand Christchurch Rakaia Gorge 88 New Zealand Rakaia Gorge Geraldine 84 New Zealand Geraldine Lake Tekapo 91 New Zealand Lake Tekapo Twizel 65 New Zealand Twizel Mt. Cook 40 New Zealand Mt. Cook Glentanner 40 New Zealand Glentanner Omarama 74 […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion On the road | Camping at Mount Cook 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 below 10 […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion On the road | Escaping to the cool highlands 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 up to where the teaplantations […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion On the road | Off the main roads 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 […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion On the road | Learning the local language 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 […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Seeing Places | 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 […]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Seeing Places | 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 [ 16 of 17 pages ]
Home | Tips | Themes | Countries | WTX Home | Textversion Seeing Places | Terraced ricefields Indonesia like we imagined it to be. Especially on Sumatra and Bali we cycled through endless ricefields. Previous | Next [ 15 of 17 pages ]
