Category: Ben Around the World
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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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Abandoned Towns on the Armenian Border Cycle Touring
I pass exposed red rock, lush valleys and watchtowers as I turn from Iran towards Georgia. More: https://benbowler.com
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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…
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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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Bikepacking To Ishak Pasha Palace in Turkey
Sometimes the bike can take you somewhere very hard to reach otherwise. Nestled between the Turkish, Iranian and Armenian border