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Asia » Cambodia
May 25th 2008

Published: October 6th 2008

We must be getting good as this travel lark - we entered Cambodia without having to bribe the immigration officials to stamp our passports as many travellers do, and even manged to haggle the money changers down to a decent rate. Riding away from the border post we entered a surreal world of high rise hotel casinos, neon signs, bars and expensive cars. Could this Las Vegas-like border town really ... Read Full Entry

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Erika Bird and Robin Searle

Banchory to the Bosphorous by Bike

We are Erika and Robin from Scotland and in April 2005 we quit our jobs and set off to cycle from Scotland to İstanbul. We reached İstanbul in October 2005 having discovered that cycling truly is the best way to travel and so decided to keep going beyond the Bosphorous...... We had never cycled any long distance before but had been wanting to travel for a long time and had finally saved enough and realised ıf we didn't set off now we never would. We decided cycling would be the best form of transport as we wanted to learn more about the countries and people we passed through at a s... full info

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Riders on the Storm

The dirt road to Thailand, and trouble brewing in the sky ahead.

No suntan.

The dust after a days riding. There is a small patch of clean skin on my right shoulder. And that shirt was once white.

A blessing and a curse.

Our dirt road turns to mud following the rain, which we foolishly welcomed as it would cool the air and damp down the dust. Oh yeah, and put an end to any chance of cycling....

Mud glorious mud.

After skidding and sliding through the deep, sticky mud for the last few miles into Sisophon and having to push the last section it was at least amusing to discover that no-one else could move in the stuff either.

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