Vietnam - Laos border procedure (see map below) : Step 1) Show passport at 1 - they check/flick through. Signal you to continue. Step 2) Show passport at 2 - they check/flick through. Send you to a different building. Step 3) Go to the building front entrance, get shooed

After waking up to the full sun blaring through the window at 7h10, we thought that we really, really need to start shifting our days forward to stop getting caught in the dark every day at 17h30... Problem for tomorrow 🙈. Head downstairs to see if we can get something for

Knowing we've got to make some ground on this hilly hilly terrain coming up, we're rolling by 8am, thinking that the first 100kms will be rapid because it's majorly "down"..... Wrong! Started out along this winding ridge, through loads of small villages,

So today is the much awaited Varanasi day, as one of the most sacred hindu locations in India, everyone's been recommending it to us so this was the objective of Jeremy's last day before heading back to the UK. Started off with breakfast on the rooftop

I had another big day planned with the same idea that Emma and Jeremy would cycle a bit and then car to catch up. I got up early which was somewhat rough after the late night activities of my companions disturbed my early night plans, ate as much breakfast as

Jeremy wants to see Varanessi as his final destination, which is a lot of ks away, and I'm very keen to keep an unbroken cycling line, so the solution is to cycle some tourist and slower days all together and then for me to do a few bigger

We were told that the Taj Mahal really does live up to the hype, and that earlier is better to avoid the crowds. That meant a 5:30am alarm for a 5:45am meeting of our guide at the hotel 🤢. Despite our yawning it was indeed very impressive and the

So working it backwards....we want to be at the Taj comfortably before it closes (4pm), 1h to sort hotel etc (3pm), 3h cycling (12pm), 1h to lunch/pick up bags from old hotel (11am), 2h bird park (9am), therefore, alarm 7:30 to be packed/breakfast/on the road

Well. We are now in India!!! It's a bit of a different vibe from the clean, empty and colder steppe. Let me tell you a little more about how we got here... Today was the designated pre flying faff day, original todo listo was: fix Ben's

Today's weather forecast: headwind getting progressively stronger, developing into borderline unrideable from early afternoon. So today's plan was get riding early , stop as little as possible, and try make it to Dossor (120km) before we start getting pushed backwards. Got on the bikes at 8, I&

Kilometres intended today: 160-200 Kilometres done today: 0 Kilometres added to route: ~1000, inc. 600 off-road... 🤔 Standard hotel start at our end ....bike faff, cleaning faff, patching faff, drink tea faff, with the added new feature of a trip to one of the many filtered water vending machines, and the