Category: Favourites
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 140 – 25 October 2019
– ODO- 17561 – 17677km – Location- Tan Ky – Weather- 28 and cloudy all day A grey day brought good miles as the terrain flattened out and the broken teeth rocks split and flat to a winding river bed with increasing numbers of houses. The day past without issue, feeding myself from biscuits, peanuts…
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Welcome to Vietnam – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 139 – 24 October 2019
– ODO- 17462 – 17561km – Location- Field near the QL7 Highway – Weather- 24-33 descending from cloud, showers in the afternoon I started my ride in a bad mood. As Id left the border town in Lao heading up the final 20km before the border a white truck cut me up with horn blazing…
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Crossing into Myanmar Part II – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 119 – 5 June 2019
– ODO- 15252 – 15356 km – Location- 20km South if Tamu, Myanmar – Weather- 25-35 Clear and humid The Moreh to Tamu border crossing between India and Myanmar has only been open for about a year according to the blogs I read before leaving Nepal. I described cycling through Manipur and passing the ever…
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India-Nepal Border Crossing at Bhimdatta with UK Passport and Nepal Telecom SIM – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 98 – 4 April 2019
– ODO- 12536 – 12631km – Location- Attariya, Nepal – Weather- 18-33 Clear with head wind Today was my first border crossing in Asia. I left early from my hotel but was still stuck in a line of pedestrians, bikes and horse drawn carts to the border. My first impression was the disorder. In all…
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Cycle Touring as Digital Detox – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 97 – 3 April 2019
– ODO- 12379 – 12536km – Location- Sitarganj, Uttarakhand, India – Weather- 18-33 Clear with head wind It’s been a long and dusty highway for my last full day riding in India, saddling the border of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Sections of unfinished highway cause huge traffic jams of trucks which I weave through. Their…
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Buffalo on the Loose – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 96 – 2 April 2019
– ODO- 12104 – 12379km – Location- Dhampur, Utter Pradesh, India – Weather- 18-33 Clear with slight head wind This morning I stopped for breakfast at a dhaba around 9-30. The roads in Haryana and Utter Pradesh are dusty as ever. They are lined with brick works with smoke stacks chucking out thick smoke. The…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 82 – 26 February 2019
– ODO- 10388 – 10534km – Location- Vindali, India – Weather- 14-32 degrees, strong headwind all day It’s midday and I’m sitting in a small roadside restaurant. I love these places. I’ve found that I can get one of my favourites – dal fry – a mix of lentils, chilli and bright yellow from the…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 81 – 25 February 2019
– ODO- 10234 – 10388km – Location- Singori, India – Weather- 20-32 degrees, headwind in the morning How India Could Keep More Tourists A moment ago while I was sitting starting my lunch a young man came to sit opposite me and began chatting to me. As he left he gave me a piece of…
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India’s Privacy Industry – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 77 – 21 February 2019
– ODO- 9738 – 9886km – Location- near Kammaready, India – Weather- 24-35 degrees India’s Privacy Industry Last night my OYO hotel had a sticker behind the door next to the latch. It read “Swipe right for privacy mode”. As a foreigner in another’s county I have very little privacy in India. That’s to be…
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Childhood Memories – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 76 – 20 February 2019
– ODO- 9512 – 9738 – Location- Hyderabad, India – Weather- 26-35 degrees Childhood Memories Yesterday was my dads birthday. After 169km I made it to my OYO hotel just as the sun set. Jostling with the autos along the highway into Hyderabad. Mixing the dust and diesel fumes in my lungs. I ordered Mc…