Yesterday evening all my body hurt. At night I woke up few times for muscle pain in thighs, but everything kind of passed away with good rest. Immediately after sitting on the bike I felt pain in my hands (where holding handlebars) and ass – and this did not disappeared 🙁 Difficult to believe I…
Rubrika: BPTW vol.1
Taiwan day 2: renting a bike
Task for today was very clear: find bike suitable for 1000 kilometers long journey, buy other necessary things which they would not rent you. Giant cycling store should be the first option for renting bike. The bikes are high quality, they have stores all around Taiwan, so in case you can return it in different…
Vietnam day 6: Can Tho
I am learning how to travel on a bike in Vietnam. No way to visit something during the day and expect to do 100km to next destination in the evening. The best thing you can do is to get up and start riding at 6am, visit something during daytime and relax in the afternoon. The…
Myanmar day 6: trekking continues
Today was the first time in my life I was eating bamboo for breakfast. Actually almost everything I have eaten during last few weeks I saw for the first time. After approximately one hour of walking through tea plantations we arrived to small village where we should sleep today.We left here our backpacks and headed…
Myanmar day 5: Ban Kham
We started our 4 days trekking in Burmese mountain before 9am, which is kind of late for local temperatures – if I should use polite words, I would say „it was really hot“ Our guide Pew Pew left us not even one hour after we started, because his grandma was ill and he had to…
Myanmar day 4: Hsipaw
Hsipaw town is what they call „backpackers place“ No rush of big city and super famous sights, but a nice place to relax in a peace. It is also starting point for treks to surrounding mountains and villages of minorities We arranged 4 days trek through tea plantations, rice pads, forests and with swimming at…
Myanmar day 3: Gokteik viaduct
Alarm at 3am, moving to train station during heavy rain and at 4am departure to Hsipaw. We sacrificed our sleep in order to have a chance to ride on Gokteik viaduct, very interesting and huge (689 meters long) metal construction, built during 8 months in 1899. At the year of construction it was the biggest…
Thailand day 15: Golden Triangle
Not really successful day today… In the morning I got very bad news. Even if Myanmar visum is valid for land border crossing, I cannot go inlad, because the route goes through military or war teritory and foreignes cannot go there. This means I have to fly, so it did not make much sense to…
Thailand day 14: Chiang Rai
After yesterday’s experience I took raincoat and a sweatshirt with me. Of course the only thing I needed today was sunscreen, which I left in the hostel. First I visited Wat Rong Suea Ten = Blue Temple. Except the beuty of the temple I could also admire creation of new statues and how many monks are going…
Thailand day 13: Chiang Rai
So I have bike with flowers, where is the problem? It is slower than the bike i had in Koh Phangan island and it is too small that I cannot fit on it and need to sit on rear seat. On the other side routes are here much better, spped around 90 kph is not…