Today’s ride on Komoot I was tired when I woke up, but I knew that it’s less than 70kms to Phong Nha with only one decent climb. The best thing is that there’s a rest day waiting for me, along with an Indian restaurant over the road from the hotel that I booked. Please don’t …
Today’s ride on Komoot The hotel here in Tay Son is great. It even has a movie channel with English language movies. The last time I saw that was in KL 3-4 months ago. So I watched a couple of movies, stayed up too late and felt rubbish this morning. When I woke up, it …
Today’s ride on Komoot Laos wouldn’t let me go quietly. It had one last sting in the tail – a headwind.The wind was strong at 7:30am, so I knew it wasn’t going to be a simple ride. I had breakfast at the restaurant over the road. The people here and at the hotel are just …
Today’s ride on Komoot Last night, I got the restaurant down the road to make me an omelette and rice, takeaway, so I could get going at a decent time. I had 100kms to the next reasonably sized town, Lak Sao which is a convenient 36kms from the Laos – Vietnam border. I said goodbye …
Lazy day today because there’s not a lot happening here except for the caves which I was looking forward to. I rode down to the starting point after some breakfast at one of the few restaurants on the way. Being a solo traveller, I had to wait for a couple of other tourists to arrive …
Today’s ride on Komoot Last night was possibly the worst karaoke I’ve ever heard, excluding my rare efforts. One guy went for nearly an hour and there were people whistling and shouting at him. I can’t imagine that they were encouraging him because you could hear in his voice when he was fighting to keep …
Todays ride on Komoot I was warned about the road surface today by other blogs, but nothing prepared me for the thick grey clouds of dust as I left Paksan. The roadworks continued until the 15km mark where I literally emerged from the clouds. From there, the road was just generally bad, which was a …
Today’s ride on Komoot Another late start but it’s a shortish 50+kms to Paksan. I also had a massive fried rice and egg for breakfast and food like this takes time. I’d hate to rush it 😁. The restaurant a couple of doors down the dusty main road has really looked after me. I doubt …
Todays ride on Komoot Leaving Vientiane took me past the Patuxay Monument. I really like it. It’s impressive, nicely decorated and dedicated to the fighters who fought or died in the struggle for independence from France. Ironic then, that to many of us, it resembles the Arc de Triomphe (as Kerry Burke pointed out). My …
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Todays ride on Komoot The guesthouse here in Phonhong, is quite nice and run by lovely people. That’s a universal truth about every guesthouse owner that I’ve met on this trip. As I left and rolled down to the main road, I could have turned left and got breakfast for certain, but I took a …
