http://travellingtwo.com A global tour, with pedal power! Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:40:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 322km Siem Reap to Phnom Penh Roast spider, anyone? At couple inches across, they weren't small. Their little black bodies and furry legs had been nicely grilled. The perfect snack food to go along with a cold beer? Tastes like chicken, or so they say. At the risk of being oh so ... http://travellingtwo.com/771 11.544952840293789 104.89883422851562 Siem Reap is a more than a little like Disney World. In a country with so much poverty, here there's a boom on. A guesthouse and a tuk tuk driver around every corner. More massage salons than you can shake a stick at. Swish art galleries. Restaurants serving all the ... http://travellingtwo.com/757 13.03131768257082 104.095458984375 129km Anlong Veng to Siem Reap It's been a long day on mostly dirt roads. We started out in the early morning hours from Anlong Veng and now we are covered in a fine layer of red dust, sweat and sunscreen, struggling to pull off the final few kilometers and wondering ... http://travellingtwo.com/717 13.356635771650387 103.85951042175293 80km Sangkha to Anlong Veng We set off for Cambodia this morning, slightly concerned about the roads ahead but encouraged by the ever-smooth asphalt on the last part of our journey through Thailand. The last few kilometers went steeply uphill and not so long ago we would have been climbing, or ... http://travellingtwo.com/712 14.23460108814689 104.07962322235107 We are off again and running for the border. Can you tell that life is much easier on the visa front now??! No more waiting around for days, weeks even, at embassies, pushing and shoving to get to a little window and deal with a grumpy official. Here in Southeast ... http://travellingtwo.com/707 101km Praset to Sangkha We woke up with a little less spiritual tranquility than we might have hoped for after a night in a monastery. Novice monks were running in and out of the large hall we were given as a sleeping space until late in the evening, giggling at us ... http://travellingtwo.com/709 14.619464756214455 103.8589096069336 169km Chok Choi to Praset Dawn had already broken when we first cracked open our eyes, remembered our pledge to make an early start the evening before and then rolled back over for another hour of sleep. Getting a move on before the heat rises is easier said than done but ... http://travellingtwo.com/706 14.639396280953365 103.40057373046875 169km Pak Chong to Chok Chai It was past midnight and we were in our tent. We should have been asleep but we were listening to the rain come down and wishing it would go away. And between the drops of water pitter pattering on our home we also heard the ... http://travellingtwo.com/705 14.729729779379972 102.161865234375 170km Ayutthya to Pak Chong “Twenty baht for photo,” said the man on the elephant as he strode past, looking at us hopefully. What seemed like half a house of things – a table, some chairs, a washing basin – was piled on the elephant's back and we couldn't help stopping ... http://travellingtwo.com/704 14.632918733947677 101.40981674194336 When we first began our journey, some 22 months ago, we were determined to cycle every last mile. Something has changed since then. Worn down by the road? Perhaps a little bit. Getting lazier? Almost definitely a factor. We prefer to think of it as quality over quantity. Could we ... http://travellingtwo.com/702 14.35753037551214 100.5523681640625 We were both saddened to discover that two cyclists riding across Canada to raise money for diabetes were killed this past weekend. What a tragedy and one that hits especially close to home for us since we are planning on covering the same ground next summer. Please take a moment ... http://travellingtwo.com/701 It's a whole new world. Just a few hours in a plane have zipped us away from remote Central Asia to lively Bangkok, where we're feasting on spicy Thai curries, power that stays on, water that's always running and truly high speed internet for the first time in months. At ... http://travellingtwo.com/688 13.734618782298034 100.54166293157323 We're packing our bags, we're not quite ready to go but hopefully we'll get it all together before we have to board a flight on Sunday. Destination, Bangkok. It was never our plan to fly out of Central Asia but visa muddles have left us with little choice and after ... http://travellingtwo.com/687 796km Karakol-Bishkek We'd travelled all the way from Karakol, some 300km, with the plan to turn right at the end of the lake Issyk-Kul. We were going to Bishkek. That's what we'd been planning to do for over a week. It's what we told Tamara, who runs a peaceful guesthouse in ... http://travellingtwo.com/672 42.8679 74.5984 672km Taldykorgan-Karakol Where to start on a journey that's taken us across some of Kazakhstan's more remote and beautiful places over the past eight days and through the back door into Kyrgyzstan, where we sit now on the edge of one of the world's largest alpine lakes. How about with the ... http://travellingtwo.com/671 42.48830197960227 78.3819580078125