Tag: cycle touring India
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Forts, fevers and some really feckin hot weather
Leaving Bangalore was never gonna be easy, a city of 8 million people sprawled in all directions from the city centre, a city in perpetual motion as people commute to and from work, deliver goods and go about their daily business. The ring road to the city limits stretched 30km in front of us, a…
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Through the tiger gauntlet to Mysore.
Neither of us has had a sip from a coconut since we had visited Malaysia a couple of years ago. On that occassion, under a sweltering Langkawi sun, we had tried the taste. It was bitter and nasty and didn’t go down well. Today we were pretty much coerced into trying one for the first…
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The Nilgiri Mountain Railway
This morning we traveled once again from the hot low lying plains to the cool air above 2000 meters. Instead of breaking our lungs with what would have been another relentless two day climb, complete with clouds of chocking toxic bus fumes we opted for the more civilized and relaxing UNESCO toy train – time…
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Thank god there’s Kodaikanal…
Part iv: This was supposed to be the easy part, 40km of undulating road that had a height increase of no more then 300 meters to our destination! It was pure hell, the combined lack of food and the awful road surface meant that it was really really tough going. With no fuel or food…
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Bushwhacking with a bike
Part iii of cycling the escape road, Munnar to Kodaikanal Waking up this morning was especially pleasurable after noting our insides had not been removed with tiger claws. We packed rapidly, loaded up our rucksacks and started to hike into the thick forest to try and find the remains of the track we had lost…
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“It is better to apologise after than to ask permission before”
Cycling the ‘escape road’ from Munnar to Kodaikanal. It all started after seeing a faded old sign pointing to ‘Munnar Ropeway Station’. Half covered in vegetation on an old stonewall, it roused our curiosity and we wanted to find out what the ropeway station was/is and whether it was something we could visit or possible…
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Our week in pictures (two weeks ago…)
We are still in India but rapidly running out of time on Sam’s visa… we haven’t had the chance to write much as we have been very busy but will hopefully be able to catch up soon. These were taken during our cycle through the Hampi area, fascinating for both its past history and its…
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Cycling up Kerala’s coast.
It was flat and only 32 kilometres, but today we broke out of our Varkala bubble and completed our first days cycling in India! Finally we are on the road again, and despite it feeling like we have never cycled before when we set off, it feels good to be doing what we came here…
Sam and Sheena Cycle 