nice writing! "Theres no banana pancakes over there one bloke said to us as if to wander to far from the aroma of the south east asian dish would spell certain doom. ".... hey i love this quote! Made me laugh so much
cheers Marco, thanks for you comment, in answer to your question dangerous hair is long and not brushed, also Mark Beaumont is a scotish guy who cycled round the world in 6 months (29000km) 160km a day.I read his book on the way through France.
Two Questions :-) Question number one: what a "dangerous hair" looks like?
Question number two: who is Mark Beaumont?
... questions apart, you deserve more than a pat on your shoulder; as you said, you don't ride around the world every day. Besides, you'd already deserve it for the mere fact of braving out in december's freezing rains...
Marco
Chinese porridge... Ah porridge, you gotta love it!
You have to make the best of that tailwind... you never know when it'll turn around! ;)
Suerte amigos...
LZ
happy berfday! happy berfday mate! glad to see you're celebrating it with crunchy grasshoppers, beetles and frogs. and eh, what penis is this animal going to come from?
sorry to hear about the headwind. you'll be ready to ride north from nouakchott now.
Lazy
what an adventure trip you had a very good blog i must say, i laughed a bit here and there. im indonesian, and im quite surprised of you or other tourists interest in our country (since ive gotten tired about it, especially for its traffics). im actually just got back from a road trip circling the land of java yesterday, and what i can say about it is that, java is more adventurous than bali (even i got lost for once at kalipucang). In bali you can have a slight adventure but you could also get off of it at anytime, since there are more sleek hotels, international foods, bars, etc everywhere, including locals who are familiar with english in case you got lost. but in java, you'd most likely get stuck in it once you jumped in, cheap motels with indonesian vibe, locals with so little english and you could only stick on viewing the paddy rice field for some refreshment. but the beautiful of it is just the same as bali. i recommend you to visit green canyon, about 30 mins driving from pangandaran. its not very popular, yet quite amazing. its a teal blue river leads to some stalactite cave, felt like i was at kalimantan river (havent tried to visit kalimantan river but ive seen it on the fickin' anaconda movie). enough from me, i hope you enjoyed your trip here. cheers!
it was more the trouble in the south of thailand to be honest although we had wanted to go to tioman but were a little disapointed with it.Liked Pangkor and I really like Penang
What do you think of Penang?
hi Tim, well the cycling was pretty tough,very mountainous and hot.The people on Java dont see many tourists judging by their reactions to our passing.We didnt see hardly any outside of the tourist zones.Along the south west coast was the most remote part of Java for us.Theres so many trecks you can do up various volcanoes,we only did the touristy one to Bromo from Malang,you can treck the whole bromo area,Keep you busy for a week or two.Cheers Daren
Photos, cycling in Java Hi, I am intrigued.
I all of the sudden had a air ticket change so I arrive in Bali and leave 3 months later from Saigon.
So I ask, what do I do in Indonenia after a week on a beach in Bali.
I am 60+ , a good backpacker (5,000+ miles treking) but a failing back, so I ask how was cycling.
Was the culture, people experience exceptional. I like getting away from it all (tourist travel stuff)
eg Sahara, Amazon stuff,
Do you have any recommendations as far as out of way villagers who are peaceful.
Cheers
Tim
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its about 50 km as far as i remember,if you go early enough then its possible to see lots of things and get back by dark.The road over the centre of the island is fairly steep but very doable.Drinks can be bought at Anakena beach and at Rano Rakoru.
cheers daren
Nice story Hi, Great story, loved reading it. You've really made me want to go there :)
One question: is it possible to make a roundtrip of the island in 1 day by bike? I mean starting in the morning and arriving back to town at night? I was just wondering that.
Cheers
I live in the uk and have enjoyed alot of cycling trips abroad ,now me and my girlfriend tatjana are off on a trip,on bikes around the world.... full info
Jonny
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nice writing!
"Theres no banana pancakes over there one bloke said to us as if to wander to far from the aroma of the south east asian dish would spell certain doom. ".... hey i love this quote! Made me laugh so much