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The Birth Place of the Buddha – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 102 – 8 April 2019
– ODO- 13002 – 13061km – Location- A valley north of Butwal, Nepal – Weather- 20-34 Dusty A couple of days ago, while I was waiting outside the Nepal Telecom office, I began speaking to a local shop owner who’d come across the road to checkout my bike. As I filled my bottles and prepared…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 101 – 7 April 2019
– ODO- 12879 – 13002km – Location- Lumbini, Nepal – Weather- 18-33 Storm hit about 9am followed by strong headwind. Last night I planned to camp out again. After oversleeping the night before I was about 50km short of the forest I’d chosen on the map. Even if I hadn’t overslept the weather had other…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 100 – 6 April 2019
– ODO- 12771 – 12879km – Location- Bankse National Park, Nepal – Weather- 18-36 Humid If I’d had one more hour of daylight I would have made it past Kohalpur and into the Bankse Nature Reserve. After checking out of my overpriced (but I have to say the best hotel I’ve stayed in for my…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 99 – 5 April 2019
– ODO- 12631 – 12771km – Location- Kohalpur, Nepal – Weather- 18-35 Clear with head wind I camped out for the first time in Nepal a few hundred meters into the forest. Since crossing the border the villages have become smaller and further apart. With the exception of Madhya Pradesh, Indian forests were few and…
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India-Nepal Border Crossing at Bhimdatta with UK Passport and Nepal Telecom SIM – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 98 – 4 April 2019
– ODO- 12536 – 12631km – Location- Attariya, Nepal – Weather- 18-33 Clear with head wind Today was my first border crossing in Asia. I left early from my hotel but was still stuck in a line of pedestrians, bikes and horse drawn carts to the border. My first impression was the disorder. In all…
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Cycle Touring as Digital Detox – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 97 – 3 April 2019
– ODO- 12379 – 12536km – Location- Sitarganj, Uttarakhand, India – Weather- 18-33 Clear with head wind It’s been a long and dusty highway for my last full day riding in India, saddling the border of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Sections of unfinished highway cause huge traffic jams of trucks which I weave through. Their…
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Bikepacking To Ishak Pasha Palace in Turkey
Sometimes the bike can take you somewhere very hard to reach otherwise. Nestled between the Turkish, Iranian and Armenian border
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Buffalo on the Loose – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 96 – 2 April 2019
– ODO- 12104 – 12379km – Location- Dhampur, Utter Pradesh, India – Weather- 18-33 Clear with slight head wind This morning I stopped for breakfast at a dhaba around 9-30. The roads in Haryana and Utter Pradesh are dusty as ever. They are lined with brick works with smoke stacks chucking out thick smoke. The…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 95 – 1 April 2019
– ODO- 12104 – 12227km – Location- Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India – Weather- 18-35 Clear Last night I picked a dusty campsite under a bridge. Now that I’ve left the mountains there are far fewer places to duck out of the way when the sun sets. Hence I played troll. Lots of the sand under…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 94 – 31 March 2019
– ODO- 11873 – 12104km – Location- Under a bridge, East of Chandigarh, Haryana, India – Weather- 18-35 Clear Even when I woke up I’d noticed the temperature had changed. In Bir the mornings were chilly. I kept my fleece on for breakfast. Just 130km south, over a few valleys and a few hundred meters…