Tag: travel
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Entering Manipur – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 117 – 3 June 2019
– ODO- 14981 – 15083km – Location- Imphal, Manipur, India – Weather- 28-33 Yesterday was Sunday in Nagaland – one of the eastern-most states of India beside Arunachal Predesh and Manipur. Similar to Goa state the Hindu temples gave way to bright white churches lit on the hillsides in the rising sun. The roadside regularly…
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Hit by a Car… Just a Little – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 116 – 2 June 2019
– ODO- 14882 – 14981km – Location- North of Imphal, Manipur, India – Weather- 28-33 Hot! I got hit by a car today. Just a little bit. That makes my second time in my twenty year cycling life. The morning began riding out of Dimapur at four in the morning. After my wheel was fixed…
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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…