Days 292 to 327 Koh Samui (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – I didn’t 23rd January – 27th February Miles rode 85 (136km) When I left the UK back in April 2014 I had an idea where I was going and a rough plan, what’s transpired has been that I have enjoyed the situations that have cropped up and developed leading to new people, places […]
Day 291 Koh Samui (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – I’m staying here… 22nd January 2015 Miles rode 0 My son Olly booked his flight to come and travel with me in March, he flys into Bangkok and then we’ll ‘backpack’ throughout Cambodia and Vietnam. How wonderful, I cannot wait as by the time he arrives we won’t have seen each other for […]
Day 290 Chumphon – Koh Samui (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 7.30am 21st January 2015 Miles rode 185 (296km) Early start today which meant I could enjoy early morning life in Chumphon. Many people where out and about the same as in most cities of the world however there wasn’t the rush we have in the west. People were talking and having food at one […]
Day 289 Bangkok – Chumphon (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 8.30am 20th January 2015 Miles rode 319 (510km) A long boring day today riding south to Koh Samui. It took 1 1/2 hours to get through Bangkok and then highway all the way south to Chumphon.
Day 288 Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 9.30am 19th January 2015 Miles rode 53 (85km) Heiko and I are staying on the outskirts of Bangkok and visited ‘Touratech Thailand’ in the morning, later I rode into central Bangkok to the Thai customs office to try and get a long extension to enable me to leave my motorbike here for up to […]
Day 287 Siem Reap – Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 8am 18th January 2015 Miles rode 280 (448km) I had an early coffee and headed back to Thailand. My son, Olly is coming out to visit me for the month of March and we plan to travel thought Cambodia & Vietnam so I saw no point in staying in Cambodia and seeing everything […]
Days 285 & 286 Angor Wat (Cambodia) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 2.45pm 16th & 17th January 2015 Miles rode 20 (32km) After a couple of lazy mornings I eventually went back to Angkor Wat. Today I went to Ta Prohm (Tomb Raider was filmed here) which has been largely left for nature to take over, trees have grown over and around the ruined temple giving […]
Day 284 Angkor Wat (Cambodia) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 11.30am 15th January 2015 Miles rode 48 (77km) It as good catching up with Garth yesterday and after breakfast he headed south, would our paths cross again? Before visiting Angkor Wat (city of temples) I rode to Tonie Sap Lake (the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia) through miles of padi fields, small villages […]
Laos – motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Laos has a population of 6.5 million and is about the same size as the UK, which means it feels empty. There were so few cars on the main roads everywhere I travelled. I entered in the northwest and the mountainous landscape was so beautiful, the small towns and villages are sparse and I felt […]
Day 283 Strung Treng – Siem Reap (Cambodia) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 9am 14th January 2015 Miles rode 203 (325km) The roads in Cambodia (the North anyway) are deserted, I stopped in a small town and everyone was so interested in where I had come from even thought no one spoke English! I don’t think Lonely Planet recommend it! I had hot BBQ meat of some […]
Day 282 Don Det – Stung Treng (Cambodia) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 11.45 13th January 2015 Miles rode 62 (99km) I rode the few hundred metres to the pier, down the rickety planks onto the sandy beach, up more rickety planks and perched my motorbike on the rickety, makeshift raft. The sun was bearing down on me as we crossed the Mekong. Then, off the rickety, […]
Day 281 Don Det (4,000 islands, Laos) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
12th January 2015 Leave Miles rode Lazy day by the Mekong after a short ride around Don Det and the island to the south. Now where’s that hammock?