Saturday June 25th We’ve survived Sumatra roads!! Did the final 110kms this morning and then crossed on the Bakauheni-Merak ferry to Java. Smooth embarkation and flat crossing of just 2 hours – man there’s a lot of ferries plying this route, reflecting just how busy these roads are. Then a quick 35 km run to […]
3rd day riding, 160kms that feels like 400km such is the stress of dodging everything on the road. Two great road stops though, the first for morning tea in a shed roadside in the jungle where the offering was hot water and a packet of biscuits. As is the protocol during Ramadan, we knew it […]
South west to the community of Tuk Tuk , on an island apparently in the middle of Danau (Lake) Toba. A 200km day to start with is a good effort given the baptism of fire crossing Medan from north to south and without the ability to use toll roads. They say the population density up […]
The plane descends toward Medan, hits the runway with a thump and we’re here, the north end of Sumatra, ready to start the next leg of our WorldbyBike global motorcycling epic. This is Year 16 and this East Indies Indulgence just a 5,000km meander to keep our appetite for riding the world sharp, until the […]
We’ve just interrupted our latest WorldbyBike motorcycle jaunt around the country roads and trails of the Deep South of America for a week taking in the CMA music festival in Nashville. Multiple stages going all day and then 60,000 of us in the LP stadium each night to soak up the best of country music […]
Saturday, April 18th – Huge day in effect riding the width of Thailand from just inside the border with Cambodia across to Kamchanaburi, where the Mae Klong river is formed as the confluence of the Kwae Yai and the Kwae Noi rivers, and over which the mis-named Bridge Over the River Kwai spans. Apparently the […]
Wednesday 13th, Off to Tonie Sap Lake today, the largest lake in South East Asia and home to a number of floating villages. The one we’re headed for is Vietnamese catholic, called Kompong Luong and is just 5 miles east of Krakor on the main road northwest from Phnom Penh to Thailand. We arrive in […]
A quiet day in the capital but an ideal one for us to visit Choeung Ek, one of the Khymer Rouge’s 300 genocide sites and where 20,000 people were brutally murdered. This killing field is on the outskirts of the city and was an orchard and Chinese graveyard before it assumed its role of an […]
Friday April 10th – 60 kms to the Cambodian border and we reach it before 9 am, have a quick feed to try and jettison some more Laos kip before we have to deal with Cambodian riel. The Customs official demands our carnets. I point out that his isn’t a carnet country so he’ll have […]
