Category: Daily Diary
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 99 – 5 April 2019
– ODO- 12631 – 12771km – Location- Kohalpur, Nepal – Weather- 18-35 Clear with head wind I camped out for the first time in Nepal a few hundred meters into the forest. Since crossing the border the villages have become smaller and further apart. With the exception of Madhya Pradesh, Indian forests were few and…
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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 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 94 – 31 March 2019
– ODO- 11873 – 12104km – Location- Under a bridge, East of Chandigarh, Haryana, India – Weather- 18-35 Clear Even when I woke up I’d noticed the temperature had changed. In Bir the mornings were chilly. I kept my fleece on for breakfast. Just 130km south, over a few valleys and a few hundred meters…
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My Week Paragliding in Bir – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 93 – 30 March 2019
– ODO- 11742 – 11873km – Location- Near Darlaghat, Himachal Pradesh, India – Weather- 14-32 Clear (Thanks to Adrian for the photo) I’m sitting for lunch in a large hotel on the highway out of Mandi and away from the mountains. This morning I cashed in the height I gained cycling up to Bir almost…
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Arriving in Bir – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 92 – 19 March 2019
– ODO: 11742 – 11820km – Location: Bir, Himachal Pradesh, India – Weather: 12-24 Bright and clear I realised today that I’d seen the Himalayas before. From 38,000 feet as I flew to a conference in Australia in 2017. That first time the ridges and valleys seem to flatten out, splitting the sea of cloud.…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 91 – 18 March 2019
– ODO- 11618 – 11742km – Location- The Forest, Himachal Pradesh, India – Weather- 14-28 Clear Last night I had my sights set on camping. I’d been overcharged for a hotel last night and throughout the day I passed small patches of forest and remote tracks splitting from the highway. All teasing campsites but at…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 90 – 17 March 2019
– ODO- 11454 – 11618km – Location- Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India – Weather- 14-32 Cloud breaking by lunchtime Last night I left the highway to find my hotel for the night. Most small towns have one or two places to stay so I was surprised that Kurukushetr had so many when I checked the OYO…