Category: Daily Diary
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Many Ghosts Here – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 109 – 26 May 2019
– ODO- 13910 – 14052km – Location- Hotel Near Belbari, Nepal – Weather- 21-32 Overcast until midday but windy. After yesterday’s wrong turn I decided to retrace my steps. Partly up the unfinished highway on compressed and sprayed sand and the rest of the time on the rough and broken slabs of the old road.…
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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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Getting A Myanmar Visa in Kathmandu – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 107 – 24 May 2019
– ODO- 13722 – 13815km – Location- Forest near Bhimeshwor, Nepal – Weather- 21-36 I’ve been in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu for the last two weeks getting visas. I enjoyed myself so much on my Indian leg that my original visa expired days after crossing the border. The Indian visa process takes 5-7 days with multiple…
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Struggling in the Heat – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 106 – 12 May 2019
– ODO- 13669 – 13722km – Location- Kathmandu, Nepal – Weather- 23-36 Super humid I’ve found my limit. Last night I camped out on a sandy riverbank between two Nepalese villages. I rolled my bike down the steep stone sidetrack and set up my tent on the sandy shore by the flowing rapids. As I…
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I Love Pokhara – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 105 – 11 May 2019
– ODO- 13536 – 13669km – Location- Bagmati, Nepal – Weather- 18-36 Super humid My last diary from the road was on the 10th of April – a whole month ago. Pokhara is just perfect for me. The area with all the action is lakeside. A small strip of land between the ridge and the…
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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 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 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…