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Biking from Hanoi to Singapore through Cambodia, Thailand & Malayasia
Another very long & hot day. I was beginning to get worried at 70 miles that I would be able to find a hotel at all! However at 87 miles the Hotel Huang City in Hutan Melintang loomed into view, so I quickly paid my £12 and checked in with the very giggly girl receptionists. […]
I left the hotel at 7.20 with the temperature at 27.5 deg C and humidity at 65%. I popped over to the 7/11 store and bought a 1.5litre of orange pulp liquid and some mystery cake for breakfast. The roads were all very busy and very wide, which is OK in a straight line but […]
I finally made it back to the Malay peninsula at Butterworth today. That means I missed about 300 miles of biking in mainland Thailand by using the ferries and visiting the Andaman Sea islands. I woke up with a touch of the runs, first time since leaving home almost certainly some food from a dodgy […]
Finally managed to extricate myself from the gorgeous island of Lipe although it has to be said the ferry company to Langkawi make very hard work of the border transition to Malaya. As in lets traipse everyone down the Lipe beach & back to get their passports stamped and then dump said 54 passports in […]
After staying on Sunset Beach at Ko Lipe for four nights at the delightfully named Porn Resort (Porn is a very common Thai female first name), tomorrow I’m moving onto Malaysia. Lipe, especially Sunset beach , is very quiet & beautiful with turquoise waters & coral, ideal for snorkelling in . The cabins or shacks […]
Yesterday I let the ferries take me south rather than the bike, although the sailors kept indicating I should be biking across the water! The bike went on the ferries OK although i had to pay an additional 300 baht on top of the 1500 baht for me (about £36 in total) for a 6 […]
Today I was in tourist mode again off out on a day long boat trip around and on Phi Phi from Lanta including lunch on The Beach with a thousand others. We started on a regular boat (good experience for the next few days of island hopping) which transferred a load of folks onto the […]
In fact to be more precise; a lazy day on and by the magnificent beach of Klong Dao near Saladan Town. I took a barefoot walk to the far end of the beach where I had a fresh coconut 🙂 then it was back to the Bee Garden for a two hour massage by the beach the […]
I thought today was going to be a ton up day. However, it turned into an only 97 mile day 🙂 but given the heat & weight still a good day. It’s still totally amazing to me the sharp contrast between tourist & non tourist areas both in pricing, availability of stuff in shops & […]
With a cock crowing away outside my door it was obviously time to be on the move! so after dutifully doing my emails etc I was back on the road at 6.45am ready to cross from the East coast of Thailand to the West coast. The wind was behind me and with smooth roads I […]