Category: Leg 5: Vientiane -> Bangkok
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 163 – 9th December 2019
– ODO- 20500-20602km – Location- Bangkok, Thailand – Weather- 18-29 clear This morning I made it to Bangkok. For Christmas, I’m heading back to see my family. I don’t want a repeat of my busy lonely Christmas in Goa last year. I left my hotel at 5:30am excited to finish this leg. While I’m away…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 162 – 8th December 2019
– ODO- 20347-20500km – Location- Rung Rot Village, Thailand – Weather- 17-32 Thailand is easy to ride. The roads are wide and smooth and every 30km there’s a service station with a Jiffy or a 7-eleven. I’ve eaten too much today. My favourite rice and omelette or cheese toasty is fast and cheap and I…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 161 – 7th December 2019
– ODO- 20191-20347km – Location- Over the border from Poipet, Thailand – Weather- 17-29 These last few days I’ve had lingering feelings of depression and boredom. From the mountains of the Vietnamese highlands, I’ve hit long, hard and hot days of the Cambodian planes. Staying in cheap tourist hotels and eating bad food. This is…
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Angkor Wat – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 160 – 5th December 2019
– ODO- 20042-20191km – Location- Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Weather- 28-32 high altitude cloud and haze I woke up like clockwork at 4:30am even though this is my day off. Opened Grab and typed in Angkor Wat. The driver took me in pitch blackness to the ticket office and then up along the highway. Cars…
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100 Miles in Cambodia – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 159 – 4th December 2019
– ODO- 19872-20042km – Location- 150km west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Weather- 28-32 high altitude cloud and haze Today I pushed myself. Siem Riep, my next short stop, is 300km from Phnom Penh and rather than splitting it into two long and one short ride I thought why not push it. My alarm went…
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Phnom Penh – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 158 – 3rd December 2019
– ODO- 19757-19872km – Location- Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Weather- 28-32 high altitude cloud and haze Today the highway continued to the capital. The surface improving as the traffic worsened. In frustration I shouted “wanker” at the top of my voice into the window of a Toyota Camry who overtook a truck on my side…
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Chinese Casinos – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 157 – 2nd December 2019
– ODO- 19631-19757km – Location- Svey Rieng, Cambodia – Weather- 28-39 clear and hot Today I crossed the border into Cambodia from Vietnam. There are several over land crossing points along the border including a couple up in the central highlands I cycled past a few days back. Thanks to a quirk of the Cambodian…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 156 – 1st December 2019
– ODO- 19476-19631km – Location- The Forest south of the highlands, Vietnam – Weather- 21-36 clear I got groped today. The moped drivers of Vietnam have been relaxed on the whole. Compared to the North Indian selfie bro’s who compete to drive you off the roads the Vietnamese riders have been relaxed if a little…
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The Dogs – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 154- 29th November 2019
– ODO- 19164-19318km – Location- Off the AH17, Vietnam – Weather- 20-23 rain Vietnam is not a dog lovers country. I thought that the idea of Vietnamese eating dogs was a stereotype until a few days on the highways here. There are fewer street dogs than in neighbouring countries. Dogs here seem friendly and families…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 155 – 30th November 2019
– ODO- 19318-19476km – Location- Dak Nong, Vietnam – Weather- 20-31 mostly clear but windy I’ve got no reason to be here. After getting a taxi from the hotel – of which I’m the only guest – into the nearest supermarket. I buy some fresh dragon fruit and biscuits for the road tomorrow. I need…