Category Archives: FAR EAST Adventures

Friday 11th Feb After a nice breakfast of eggs, sausage and tomato with home made bread we set off at 9am for a loop through the mountains of rural Thailand.. very cold    to start so extra layer. Roads twisty, … Continue reading →

Thurs 11th Feb We woke up to thick mist and it was COLD no breakfast at hotel so we walked down the Main Street in our full biking gear looking for coffee and something other than noodle soup. We found … Continue reading →

Tuesday 9th Feb Today we have 360kms to the capital Vientiane..we arrive at our hotel, again on banks of the Mekong, after lunch of noodle soup..again. That night we ate well in a nice restaurant and enjoyed a couple of … Continue reading →

Monday 8th Feb Greeted by the lovely sunrise over the Mekong we set off to ride the 500kms to Thakhek, our next destination. The first 10kms was a dirt road with lots of big holes and ruts and clouds of … Continue reading →

Saturday 6th Feb We were on the bikes at 7am to avoid as much of the heat and traffic as we could..no breakfast, too early! 300 kms to Siem Reap the second largest city and home to the famous lost … Continue reading →

in 1975 the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot formed a Communist peasant farming society which resulted in the deaths of 25% of the country’s population from execution..this created the infamous “killing fields”..genocide of their own people! We arranged a tuk … Continue reading →

Here is the bike I’m riding for 3000+ kms over here.. It’s a Honda CBX 500cc twin.. a value for money adventure bike..red ones are best 🙂 I have developed a love/hate relationship with it. First the good things… It … Continue reading →

Wed 3rd Feb Started the morning with a short stroll along the beach which our hotel overlooked, then on the road at 9am to tackle the border crossing to Cambodia, All went well on Thai exit side but then we … Continue reading →

I knew this trip would be an adventure .. started when the taxi didn’t turn up at 08.30 as planned! Phoned him, he was very apologetic alarm hadn’t gone off he said. Finally got to LHR 30mins late… Good flight. … Continue reading →