Tag: bikepacking
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 111 – 27 May 2019
– ODO- 14162 – 14324km – Location- Riverbank, Purbachak Chaka, East Bengal, India – Weather- 28-30 Mostly overcast My experience with rain forests up until this point has been sitting and watching David Attenborough programs in the sofa with my mum. A family favourite when I was young. Once I left Siliguri, the first major…
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Crossing the Nepal/India border at Siliguri – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 110 – 27 May 2019
– ODO- 14052-14162km – Location- Mahananda Wildlife Sanctury, East Bengal, India – Weather- 21-34 Consistent headwind For my last night in Nepal I chose a hotel. It was around five pm and the heat began to get to me. I stopped more and more often. Water flowed right through me soaking my shirt, my helmet,…
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Many Ghosts Here – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 109 – 26 May 2019
– ODO- 13910 – 14052km – Location- Hotel Near Belbari, Nepal – Weather- 21-32 Overcast until midday but windy. After yesterday’s wrong turn I decided to retrace my steps. Partly up the unfinished highway on compressed and sprayed sand and the rest of the time on the rough and broken slabs of the old road.…
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Struggling in the Heat – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 106 – 12 May 2019
– ODO- 13669 – 13722km – Location- Kathmandu, Nepal – Weather- 23-36 Super humid I’ve found my limit. Last night I camped out on a sandy riverbank between two Nepalese villages. I rolled my bike down the steep stone sidetrack and set up my tent on the sandy shore by the flowing rapids. As I…
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I Love Pokhara – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 105 – 11 May 2019
– ODO- 13536 – 13669km – Location- Bagmati, Nepal – Weather- 18-36 Super humid My last diary from the road was on the 10th of April – a whole month ago. Pokhara is just perfect for me. The area with all the action is lakeside. A small strip of land between the ridge and the…
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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 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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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 90 – 17 March 2019
– ODO- 11454 – 11618km – Location- Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India – Weather- 14-32 Cloud breaking by lunchtime Last night I left the highway to find my hotel for the night. Most small towns have one or two places to stay so I was surprised that Kurukushetr had so many when I checked the OYO…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 68 – 18th January 2019
– ODO- 8397 – 8511km – Location- Hotel in Hosur, India – Weather- 20-34 Thick fog until 10am Camping in India Last night I tried a new approach to camping. In Europe, Turkey and the caucuses the population is sparse enough that within 10km I easily found a field or a tree down to camp…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 66 – 16th January 2019
– ODO- 8118 – 8260km – Location- Nachimuthu Natrayan Thirukovil Temple, India – Weather- 22-35 Hazy in the morning but very hot in the afternoon Yesterday was the festival of Pongal in Tamil Nadu. Outside each house the women paint with coloured sand. Flowers and spirals in intricate patterns. Fast high pitched music, driven by…