Adventure Travel Blogs

At the time of writing, the trip status is "Guaranteed to run" with only "4 spaces remaining".  By my calculation there must be around a dozen people already signed up - surely I won't be at the back all day, every day?

In order to try and prevent me from being followed at 2mph by the support vehicle for 1000km (apart from the obvious advantage of being able to hitch a ride) I am busy training.  I'm cycling almost every day providing it's not raining, too cold, too...

The trip - I've signed up for my first ever mountain bike holiday, or cycling holiday for that matter.  I will be spending my summer "holiday" cycling from Lhasa to Kathmandu, across 1000km of the vast geographical expanse of the Himalayas.  My kit bag will be crammed full of sunscreen and lycra, and my rucksack with cameras and chocolate.  It will be an exhausting, emotional and, dare I say it, 'spiritual' journey through the wilderness and Buddhist culture of the Tibetan homela...

Angkor Wat - It was the place we all wanted to see and it was everything that was promised. As we travelled in off season it was not quite as busy as feared (though of course there were other tourists everywhere). After days of being the only foreign cyclists on the road it was odd to suddenly see so many others on bikes (the preferred way to navigate the complex).

As we had to say good bye to our Thai guide, Mr T our Cambodian guide was doing his best to explain as much as he could int...

second day cycling (day 4 of the tour)

Exodus we all have to tell you: you need to do better on the second hotel! Beds were superfluous as they were so hard we may have well slept on the floor. This after the first day of riding 90k so sore and still jetlagged was unwelcome.

At least the day went better from there!!! On the upside the weather was overcast and quite fresh which we all welcomed in place of the high heat and humidity we feared. On the downside we had cross winds ...