Let’s go cycling

A couple of flatter days! Day 27 -Li to Sam Ngao, 122 km A mostly down hill day, with really scenic riding through the mountains, losing most of our altitude along the way 🙂 A most enjoyable morning! Riding along the flat it was much hotter than we’ve seen for many days… a bit of…

Day 26 from Chang Mai south- 133km Nice clean bikes…found a hose! Set off bright and early with a big day in mind. Lovely quiet back roads out of the old city but Komoot in its wisdom took us on a nightmare path once we got to the highway- somehow it didn’t factor in the…

Set off in the rain from Chang Rai for another 100+ km day. The day started with a lovely cycle on rural Thai roads, and a peek at the “White Temple” on the way through. Not to mention armies of Westerners checking it out 🤣. About half way through the day we hit the highway,…

Day 22…114 km…See ya Laos and into Thailand Set off earlyish to cross the border into Thailand- about a 12km ride to get to Laos immigration. Simple process at the Laos end but this time they wouldn’t let us ride our bikes through on the Friendship bridge. 25 baht each for us and 100 baht…

Day 20-21 : a slow boat to Thailand We checked out early from the lovely “On the Mekong” accomm, and they kindly took us and our bikes to the boat station. Off we go for the next bit of our adventure. Still not exactly sure where we’ll fly out from but we decided to head…

Day 19.. off the bikes! The laziest of days… a leisurely breakfast and walk the couple of km into town for an explore. It feels like an entirely different country to the one we’ve been traversing for the last few days- no subsistence living here, it’s a beautiful mix of colonial architecture and Lao style…

Day 17…. 77 km to Luang Prabang Well we’ve made it. Today’s ride was a lot of up and even more down…and with improving road surfaces it was a bit quicker than we expected. Bit of shopping along the way Somewhere along the way we came across another cyclist! It seems it isn’t a terribly…

Couple of days worth…and they were noteworthy! Day 13- around 79 km from Vang Vieng to somewhere past Kasi. Well that seemed like a lot of UP. A massive day, after a surprisingly good sleep ( karaoke blended in to the background after a while…) we set off toward Luang Prabang…the long way round because…

Day 13 and we land in Vang Vieng Note to self…Saturday night is not a good night to be in this very tourist oriented town! We write this as we listen…grimacing…to the very loud and increasingly tuneless karaoke happening adjacent our accommodation. Might be a late one! A very wet night last night and the…