Tag: travel
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 115 – 1 June 2019
– ODO- 14763 – 14882km – Location- Dimapur, Nagaland, India – Weather- 28-35 Hot The day began with a clear four lanes of smooth highway 37 winding through pristine rainforest. I felt a strong as I had all trip. With two cool days under low hung cloud I felt happy and confident and dreamed of…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 114 – 31 May 2019
– ODO- 14592 – 14763km – Location- Gawahati, Assam, India – Weather- 21-30 Rain It’s days like today where the scale of the trip really sinks in. After an early stop and big Dominoes pizza in Gawahati last night I got a short nights sleep, kept awake by my first access to WiFi in a…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 113 – 30 May 2019
– ODO- 14462-14592km – Location- Guwahati, Assam, India – Weather- 21-28 Storm in the morning, then overcast After some good nights camping I felt like I needed a roof over my head for a night or two before heading into the mountains bordering Myanmar. I stopped early, around 4pm for a second lunch or early…
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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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Wrong Turn – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 108 – 25 May 2019
– ODO- 13815 – 13910km – Location- Down by the River, Gil Bazaar, Nepal – Weather- 21-36 I’ve had a challenging morning. Last night I met a fellow cyclist called Scott and spent almost an hour talking by the side of the road. As we parted the clouds began to build and I decided to…
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Digital Nomad Anxiety – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 104 – 10 April 2019
– ODO- 13159 – 13198km – Location- Pokhara, Nepal – Weather- 18-19 Overcast with showers The feeling of coming inside after camping out for several weeks is luxurious. I start by starting a podcast on my phone, laying out my bags and dismantling all of my kit into piles on the floor. One pile for…
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Wild Camping in the Mountains of Nepal – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 103 – 9 April 2019
– ODO- 13061 – 13159km – Location- Putalibazar, Nepal – Weather- 18-25 Showers in the afternoon The Nepalese Himalayas are beautiful to ride. After a short stretch of dusty unpaved curves the road smoothed out and wound up slowly though ever steepening valleys. After a few hours the trucks died off, I assume they were…
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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 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…