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Biking from Hanoi to Singapore through Cambodia, Thailand & Malayasia
Here are links to each of my days cycling from Hanoi to Singapore through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand & Malaysia during 2014. Arrival in Vietnam & first day in Hanoi Halong Bay Tour Hanoi moments Hanoi to Hang Tram – Ride Day1 Hang Tram to Thanh Hoa – Day2 biking South East Asia bike ride day […]
Now my little Hanoi to Singapore bike ride is finished. Here is a first glimpse of my stats I biked 2,558 miles (4093km) with 55,000 feet (16,764m) of ascent. Pedalled it in 218 hours with 40 days on the road. My total time away from Cambridge (on this trip) was 68 days from 2nd Feb […]
After nearly falling down one of the open drains that Malaysia specialize in I had my egg roti and said farewell to Sabine who was cycling onto Mersing for the ferry to Tioman. My road was hilly, wide and quiet for the first half to Highway 1, all be it deadly monotonous Sime Darby plantations. […]
Muar is a delightful working town loads of real shops including a great bike shop who sold me a Panasonic inner tube for 10 Ringgits but didn’t stock puncture repair kits. I started the day with some lovely egg roti’s at The Soup House, joined later by Sabine. As we were finishing the French couple […]
The Mullah woke me up by blasting his prayer of the day at me, once awake the incessant pounding of the rain kept me up. I met Sabine loading up her bike at daylight downstairs and we agreed to hang on for the rain to clear, since it was only a 30 mile day. It […]
Today I was playing at been a tourist again by joining the free 2 hour walking tour of the old city. Organised by The Melaka Museum Corporation & Melaka Tourism Promotion. Not free enterprise as in my tours of Bucharest & Ljubljana I could only understand about 1 word in 3 that the guide spoke […]
I’ve been looking forward to visiting Malacca as it has a fascinating history and lots of good reviews from other travellers. We left at 7.20 at the crack of dawn not because of the distance but just to get biking in the cool. The traffic on the road soon thinned out and became quite pleasant, […]
Today started of on a trip skirting Kuala Lumpur airport and the FI track at Sepang, where in fact a meeting was on so the roads were quite busy. There was a shortage of places to eat so I ended up getting breakfast 25 miles into the day at Pekan Sapang. I decided to try […]
Today was another of those days that started of poorly but turned out well:-) After been woken by my neighbours and the totally rubbish plumbing in The Apps Hotel (I don’t think I’ve ever heard such noisy pipes). I strapped everything on the bike sat on the saddle to discover the back tyre was partially […]
I’m afraid these posts are going to get a bit repetitive with regard to the heat, humidity, plantations & I strongly suspect how busy the road is. Although, today, I did manage to escape for a few miles on a side road. I gave up today after 50 miles as I was feeling totally wrecked, I […]