Roving Rant - Trip Complete
We’re done! Over 5,000 Km over some pretty dubious roads with some equally dubious traffic. (The flight distance from Auckland to Bangkok...
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RiK
- Mar 17, 2018
- 4 min
Roving Rant Day 22 - Nakhon Sawan to Bangkok
Bangkok is huge, sprawling, super rich, super poor, overcrowded, congested, polluted, loud, raucous, colourful, exciting,...
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RiK
- Mar 16, 2018
- 3 min
Roving Rant Day 21 - Tha Song Yang to Nakhon Sawan
Our hotel last night was basic but grand. Large quantities of timber gave it a solid air. Shame that the hot water was only available on...
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RiK
- Mar 15, 2018
- 3 min
Roving Rant Day 20 - Inthanon to Tha Song Yang
Today was a day with nature. A leisurely rise with breakfast (if you can really call it that - I won’t go into details) on our terrace,...
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RiK
- Mar 14, 2018
- 5 min
Roving Rant Day 19 - Chiang Mai to Inthanon
We hadn’t really decided where we were going until after breakfast this morning. And trying to sort out routes when the hotel’s WiFi was...
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RiK
- Mar 13, 2018
- 4 min
Roving Rant Day 18 - Chiang Mai
Today was an R&R day. No bikes, no charging around, just a tourist trip around old Chiang Mai city on foot, a massage & a dinner by the...
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RiK
- Mar 12, 2018
- 5 min
Roving Rant Day 17 - Loei to Chiang Mai
My ode to riding! “The engine growls. The exhaust heat warms my legs. The cool morning wind rushes over me. The vents in my helmet...
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RiK
- Mar 11, 2018
- 3 min
Roving Rant Day 16 - Nam Ngum Reservoir to Loei
What a difference a day makes! Riding the same mountain road this morning was a joy. Of course we were fresh, but there was hardly any...
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RiK
- Mar 10, 2018
- 4 min
Roving Rant Day 15 - Vientiane to Nam Ngum Reservoir
Dawn breaks over Vientiane & from our lofty perch on the 9th floor, we stare out over the city. Different but not too majestic. I think...
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RiK
- Mar 9, 2018
- 5 min
Roving Rant Day 14 - That Phanom to Vientiane
So today was our last ditch attempt at getting in Laos. We’d tried 3 times to get into Cambodia & succeeded third time lucky, so would we...
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RiK
- Mar 8, 2018
- 4 min
Roving Rant Day 13 - Laos border to That Phanom
I’m sitting on a motel room balcony in That Pranom, which is a provincial town in Thailand, sipping a gin and tonic & staring across the...
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RiK
- Mar 7, 2018
- 4 min
Roving Rant Day 12 - Siem Reap to Laos border
We were up at dawn to ensure we were at the Bayon temple by 7:30am when it opened. There is something rather peaceful about riding in the...
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RiK
- Mar 6, 2018
- 5 min
Roving Rant Day 11 - Siem Reap (Angkor Wat)
It was a 4:45am start. We’d missed the sunset from the top tower of Angkor Wat because they close at 5:30pm, but we were determined to...
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RiK
- Mar 5, 2018
- 4 min
Roving Rant Day 10 - Siem Reap (Angkor Wat)
OK, all the negative stuff first to get it out the way. Angkor Wat has been touristified. There are chains, no entry signs, go this way...
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RiK
- Mar 4, 2018
- 6 min
Roving Rant Day 9 - Phnom Penh to Siem Reap (Angkor Wat)
This is it. This is the real reason I came to Cambodia. Ever since coming to Angkor Wat several times in the mid-1960’s, I have hankered...
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RiK
- Mar 3, 2018
- 6 min
Roving Rant Day 8 - Phnom Penh
The streets of Phnom Penh. The sights, the sounds, the smells and above all the people. It was Saturday, so the roads were a bit emptier...
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RiK
- Mar 2, 2018
- 4 min
Roving Rant Day 7 - Battambang to Phnom Penh
Well my trick with our ‘smalls’ worked & we set off from Battambang reasonably early to avoid the heat of the day. Navigation was far...
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RiK
- Mar 1, 2018
- 4 min
Roving Rant Day 6 - Ban Khlong Yai through the Cambodian border (yay!) to Battambang
We woke reasonably early & left the estate as quietly as we could. Pierre had kindly offered us coffee in the morning before we departed,...
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RiK
- Feb 28, 2018
- 4 min
Roving Rant Day 5 - Ban Khlong Yai border country
Going to sleep & waking up to the deafening sound of cicadas is something I’d forgotten - they simply don’t get that loud in New Zealand....
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RiK
- Feb 27, 2018
- 4 min
Roving Rant Day 4 - Khlong Yai to the Cambodian border (attempt 2)
So after our failure to cross to Cambodia yesterday, we had a leisurely start to the day & after leaving our motel, headed a little...
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