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?
Day 280 Pakse – Don Det (4,000 islands, Laos) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
11th January 2015 Leave 10.45am Miles rode 99 (158km) Half way to Don Det I stopped at a remote village with only a few houses to get a drink and there were 2 young men, maybe 20? eating, they had a rifle each which has become more common the further south in ride in Laos. […]
Day 279 Savannakhet – Pakse (Laos) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
10th January 2015 Leave 10.30am Miles rode 166 (266km) Beautiful blue skies this morning. After ridding for 2 hours I stopped for lunch, I’m loving the small villages where lunch on the dry dusty road is so basic, the people always smile and then laugh and talk each other, I’m sure they are talking about […]
Day 278 Pakxan – Savannakhet (Laos) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
9th January 2015 Leave 9.15 Miles rode 208 (333km) The sky was full of clouds when I left this morning and whilst I felt better than yesterday I wasn’t fully my usual self. At 12.30 I arrived in Thakhek, a really nice town so I had some lunch, relaxed and decided I would ride around […]
