Tag: Wild Camping
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 169 – 10th February 2020
– ODO- 21317-21460km – Location- Thailand – Weather- 25-32 showers in the afternoon Last night I pushed and pushed through a lul in my mood. The road turned away from the sandy beaches and bay vistas back to the highway packed with pickup trucks and lorries all in a hurry to blast past on their…
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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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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 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 78 – 22 February 2019
– ODO- 9886 – 10033km – Location- Gudihatnur, India – Weather- 24-37 degrees I’m sitting in a forest clearing looking up at the stars. The rumble of tyres and arpeggios horns of the highway mix with cricket and bird song. Today I exceeded 10,000km on the road since leaving London 9 months ago and I’m…
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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 61 – 10th January 2019
ODO: 7565 – 7682km Location: A Highway in India Weather: 18-34 Clear and Hot As the sun began to set last night, my route began to merge with the coastline. During the day I’d caught the glimmer of rivers, pools and beaches from many bridges that connect the lowlands here in Kerala. My mind drifted…