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14 May 2019
10 May 19 – Bagan to Mount Popa – 53km So, we are just over the halfway stage of our stay at in Myanmar and we have been pleasantly surprised with the country as a whole. Our feelings are very similar to how we felt 2 weeks into our stay in Bangladesh. Prior to entering […]
8 May 2019
Friday 3 May – Monywa to Myinmu – 78km Because of the heat we have experienced in Myanmar already, our days have been brought forward in time even more than they were before. So, this morning we were up, packed the bikes, had an early breakfast (kindly put on by our hotel staff) and were […]
2 May 2019
Saturday 27 April 2019 – Champhai to Zokhawthar – 26km Last night we thought it would be a good idea to stock up with bottled water so that we would have a full load when we left in the morning. At about 7pm, after a really nice (final) Indian meal in the hotel, we ventured […]
30 April 2019
Notes for other cyclists travelling between Bangladesh and Myanmar through Tripura and Mizoram states in North-East India. We cycled between Agartala (on the eastern Bangladesh/Tripura State Indian border) to Kale (pronounced Kalay and also known as Tahan) in western Myanmar in April 2019. This time of year is very hot in this region and the […]
22 April 2019
Wednesday 17 April 19. So, we made it to Aizawl a bit sooner than we had expected but that sort of worked in our favour. As Easter weekend was coming up and this is a really very staunch Christian region, from Friday onwards a lot of shops, government departments, etc would be on shorter working […]
16 April 2019
Of all the countries we have visited so far Bangladesh has by far been the most surprising. Though we had little evidence of what the county or its people would be like, our pre-visit impression was that it would be a means-to-an-end to get new Indian visas, a country we would “endure” rather than “enjoy” […]