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 […]
Tag Archives: cycle touring India
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sam and Sheena Cycle 