Tag: cycling Malaysia
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 176 – 17th February 2020
– ODO- 22162-22311km – Location- Simpang Renggam, Malaysia – Weather- 31-36 shower in the morning I must have been through a hundred blank hotel rooms by now. Cheap Malaysian hotels seem to be exclusively windowless. Internal white cubes with zero natural light and zero ventilation, which is made even worse by the fact that you’re…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 175 – 16th February 2020
– ODO- 22023-22162km – Location- Bukit Baru, Malaysia – Weather- 31-37 clear and humid I’m tired today. Last night I rode into Kuala Lumpur for an afternoon off. I stopped to meet my friend Adrian, who I’d last seen on a paragliding launch back in Bir, India – 10,000km hence. To get in early to…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 172 – 13th February 2020
– ODO- 21615-21756km – Location- Palm forest, Malaysia – Weather- 28-36 hot and humid I can’t help but think about Coronavirus. My phone lights up with texts from concerned family, shop attendants wear masks and every podcast I listen to mentions the latest count or tech angle on the infection. It reminds me again of…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 171 – 12th February 2020
– ODO- 21460-21615km – Location- Sungai Putani, Malaysia – Weather- 26-36 hot and humid Malaysians love malls. I have visited Kuala Lumpur previously, for a couple of weeks, and spent most of that time in malls eating donuts and ice-cream but I wasn’t expecting it to extend beyond the capital. I crossed the border too…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 170 – 11th February 2020
– ODO- 21460-21615km – Location- Padang Besar, Malaysia – Weather- 22-31 strong showers across the day My final day in Thailand was a disaster. I started early but with zero energy after a night of deep yet interrupted sleep. The big expanses of palms died off as the sun set so all I was left…