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Delicious Cambodia – tarantulas and scorpions!?!? and other foods…
! WARNING – sensitive people do not look at some of the graphic images below ! go directly to nice list at the end. Attention âmes sensibles ignorez les 5 premières photos et zappez à la liste de la fin … Continue reading
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Tagged bike tandem, bugs, Bugs Café, Cambodia, cyclotouring, fooding, insects, nèpe, scorpion, Siem Reap, South East Asia, tamarind, tapioca, Tarantula, Trapa Natans, water bug, water caltrop
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Phnom Penh to Kampung Cham, both faces of today’s Cambodia
post traduit en français à la fin Entering Cambodia… Crossing the border from Vietnam to Cambodia was quite an adventure ! Coming from Cai Bé in the Vietnamese Mekong delta and following the Mekong up on its left side, it … Continue reading
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Tagged Angkor Wat, Bike, Blood donation, Border, Cambodia, Casino, Cycle Touring, Cycling, Dragon Dance, Guesthouse, Kampung Cham, Killing Fields, Krama, Mekong, Phnom Penh, Random Act of Kindness, Tandem, Tet, Visa
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50 shades of green
Francophone rdv à la fin ! Hué – border of north and south Vietnam After our surprisingly comfortable train ride from Hanoi, we and the bike arrived in Hué, the former capital of Vietnam from 1802 until 1945, a short … Continue reading
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Tagged 50 shades, Cai Bé, cyclotouring, DaNang, Hai Van pass, Hoi An, Hué, Mekong Delta, Qui Non, Saigon, tadem, train, Vietnam
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Hanoi: friends, chocolate, snakes
For the first time on our trip, after 2 months on the road we finally reached the sea, in Dien Chau where we rested for a couple of days to dry out after 3 days of constant rain in an … Continue reading
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Tagged Bike, cockles, cycletouring, halong bay, hanoi, ho citadel, Ninh Binh, snake blood, sword lake, Tandem, Vietnam, warmshowers
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Jars of Rain!
English version below, but en Francais à la fin Leaving Luang Prabang we decided to take the bus again to cross the mountains to get to Phonsavan. Again we were happy with this decision, as we again saw plenty of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bike, Burial, Cycle Touring, Druid, Guesthouse, Laos, Luang Prabang, MAG, Mountain, Nam Kham, Ostrich, palm tree, phonsavan, plain of jars, Tandem, UXO, Vietnam
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Luang Prabang – the jewel in Laos’s crown
Luang Prabang Gorgeous Luang Prabang is the jewel in Laos’s crown, accessible by plane, river or by tortuous windy roads over mountain passes. Considering this, we opted to take another shortcut, and took the bus from Vang Vieng, putting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bike, Cycle Touring, Laos, Luang Prabang, Mekong, Nam Kham, Phu Si, South East Asia, Tandem, Temple, UNESCO, Weed
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Christmas in Laos
Christmas in Vientiane We came to the realization that it was December 20th and we were not in a Christmassy mood yet! Hot days, absence of Christmas carols in the shops, and overall no one caring in this non-christian culture. … Continue reading
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Tagged Badger, Bike, Blue Lagoon, Buddha, Cave, Christmas, Coconut, cycletouring, Frog, Laos, Tandem, Temple, Thailand, That Luang, Tubing, Vang Vieng, Vientiane, Vietnam, Visa, Ziplining
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Middle Earth of Laos – caves, waterfalls, whiskey!
Cave exploration Thakaek is a lovely town nestling on the banks of the Mekong. Just east of the city lies a region where enormous cliffs as high as mountains jut out of the flat plains,covered with trees clinging on for … Continue reading
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Tagged bambou, Ban Na, BeerLao, Bike, Caves, cyclotouring, Elephant, Lao Lao, Laos, Route 13, Tandem, Thakhaek, Waterfalls
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First impressions of Laos – Southern and Central Regions
Les Francophones rendez-vous en fin de texte ! We made it out of Thailand just in the nick of time – on the day that our visas ran out! Crossing into Laos at Vang Tao we started to notice the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beer, Bike, Champasak, cycletouring, cyclotouring, Don Det, flip flop, Irrawaddy dolphins, LAK, Laos, local bus trip, ombres chinoises, saddle, shadow show, Tandem, Thailand, Wat Phu
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Route 12 to the far east – Phitsanulok to Khon Kaen, Thailand, and beyond
Heading East Leaving Phitsanulok, heading east toward Laos, only one road was laying in front of us. Route 12. Going through forests, national parks and hills (lots !!!), this road would be our nemesis for the next couple of weeks. … Continue reading
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