Saturday 26th January…..(or 25th) Well, we’ve had a great day. A tour around the Bolevan Plateau, near Pakse, central Laos. A relaxing day spent with our driver taking us to some great waterfalls, a visit to a coffee plantation and a village known for their skilled weavers producing scarves, bags Read more…
Monday 21at January….. Day spent relaxing in Vientiane, the capital city. Very hot. We visited the COPE museum the morning. A humbling experience that gives an interesting insight into the lives of people affected by unexploded ordnance dropped by the US between 1964 and 1975. People still get killed or Read more…
Sunday 20th January. Long ride in terms of distance. Around 60 miles from Phonhong to the capital, Vientiane. It was very hot and dusty. We have bought bandanas that we wrap over our faces to avoid getting covered in dust. We look like bandits. We avoided the busy road for Read more…
Thursday 17th january. Today we had big intentions of starting early. We got up for breakfast and were presented with a nice omelette with bread and crunchy rice cake, dried bananas and ….something else! Well, we got up from our breakfast after 9. Our cook, Nali was most charming and Read more…
Weds 16th January. Well, we got up at 5.15 to catch a tuk tuk to the bus station in Phonsavan to catch a mini bus to phoukoun (where we kept our bikes). The mini bus driver appeared to be trying to break the world ground speed record as we hurtled Read more…
Tuesday 15th January…(I think!). We ditched the bikes today and left them in a hotel in phoukoun. We caught a minibus to Phonsavan, to visit the Plain of Jars. Much more interesting than it sounds. The ‘jars’ are in fact huge pots made of stone that has been quarried from Read more…
Friday 11th January. A superb day today. We got up early and did a yoga session as the rest of the city was waking. Right beside the river. Very peaceful. After breakfast we went to Kuangsi waterfall, about 25 kms away. Simply the most beautiful waterfall any of us have Read more…
Wednesday 9th January. A short cycling day. This was our first day of rain. We cycled through slight drizzle and instead of stopping to eat breakfast we cycled around 25 miles to our destination, Luang Prabang. We had a late breakfast and then we packed our clothes for a trip Read more…
Monday 7th January. Today was the day Matt C had nightmares about for months. Two equivalent ride to the top of Mont Ventoux in one day. Not quite, but it felt like it. Around 85 kilometres may not sound too much, but carrying the weight in planners makes it a Read more…
Saturday 5th December. Another beautiful day. Very hot but much more pleasant by lunchtime. The road is quiet and perfect cycling conditions albeit the road quality is deteriorating. We cycled only a short distance today. Tomorrow is quite long and a few more steep climbs so we are ‘pacing’ ourselves. Read more…
