Over the mountain range
2025年7月25日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Early morning start to try and avoid heat while we make it to the top of the mountain. It is quite hazy with smoke from fires in Indonesia. Stop and chat with monkeys and then are stopped as the roadもっと詳しく
Long day on the pavement
2025年7月26日, マレーシア ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
Long ride along highway 1. Not much besides pavement through the jungle. Not even a monkey to beak up the day. Arrive in Kampar. Opt to try the region’s dish - clay pot chicken with rice. So good!もっと詳しく
A waterfall and cave!
2025年7月27日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C
Take a walk into the hill and jungle behind town to local waterfall. Very nice water! Pack up and head out. Kind of late but short day. Divert off main road to check out Tempunung cave. Very cool.もっと詳しく
Ipoh
2025年7月28日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C
Returned to Ipoh on foot to explore during the daylight. Saw a few cool, old buildings from British occupation. Nice murals and street art as well. Quite toasty walking around. Ordered in and ate byもっと詳しく
Taiping
2025年7月29日, マレーシア ⋅ 🌩️ 33 °C
Wound our way out of the busy streets of Ipoh. Hugged the river valley as hazy peaks surrounded us on both sides. Found a few quieter roads enabling us to get off of the busy Hwy 1. Stopped for someもっと詳しく
Onto Penang
2025年7月30日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Woke to pouring rain but able to wait it out before leaving. The cloud cover stayed awhile which kept temps down. Long ride through very built up area. Not a great day of riding. Made it to ferry portもっと詳しく
Exploring George Town
2025年7月31日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Out for good coffees and pastries before exploring the city. Finally some history in this country. Quite the mix of Asian and European influence. Small streets with food stalls abound. Lots of streetもっと詳しく
Kek Lok Si Temple
2025年8月1日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Went out for coffee and wound up eating breakfast after observing the French toast. Quite tasty. Fueled us up to battle the traffic to get to Kek Lok Si Temple - a huge Buddhist temple. The artistryもっと詳しく
A jungle hike and beach
2025年8月2日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C
Opt to not ride anymore as the traffic is horrible and drivers worse. Catch a grab (uber-like) to take us to national park on the other side of island. Sit in a lot of traffic but at least it’s airもっと詳しく
Two ferries and quiet roads
2025年8月3日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Get an early start as we have always to go and 2 ferry crossings. Streets are quiet as it’s Sunday morning (perhaps). Arrive back in Butterworth and head north out of the city. Pretty quickly findもっと詳しく
Some days just don’t go as planned
2025年8月4日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Another early start to catch ferry to Langkawi. Short ride to port town only to find out that we couldn’t go on the passenger ferry with our bikes. Next ferry port - almost 30 miles to the north.もっと詳しく
To the north side
2025年8月5日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
First order of business - determine if we can take a ferry to Thailand. Ride to passenger ferry terminal and confirm - we can! Grab some breakfast and ride the 12 miles across to the north side of theもっと詳しく
To the west and waterfalls
2025年8月6日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Skies are nice and clear when we wake up but become a big ominous as we head out across to the east side of the island. Rain begins to fall as we arrive at the start of the walk up to Seven Wellsもっと詳しく
Beach combing and deja vu
2025年8月7日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
After checking out, head down to the beach for the afternoon. Hadn’t seen the beach at high tide. So many different types of shells! Get a tiny bit of rain but seek cover under a tree. Pack up andもっと詳しく
Thailand
2025年8月8日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Early morning to catch the 9:30 ferry to Thailand. Pay for our tickets and await clearing Malaysian border patrol. Do notice the sign that says bikes not allowed but they do let us through. First onもっと詳しく
Meandering through the countryside
2025年8月9日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
Rainy night gave way to clear morning. Odd breakfast delivered to our door. Ok but not my fave - chicken and rice soup (Congee). Quickly find ourselves on small roads, amongst the jungle interspersedもっと詳しく
To the Andaman Sea
2025年8月10日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Have a “normal” breakfast (yogurt) but stop for coffee before leaving town. Because of all the estuaries, it’s impossible to go in a straight line. Stop at a Botanical garden and do a shortもっと詳しく
It’s a warm rain
2025年8月11日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
After deliberating back and forth between heading to the theoretically drier east coast or staying on the likely wetter but more scenic west coast , opted to take our chances. Wait out the first rainもっと詳しく
Wat Tham Suea
2025年8月12日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
No rush this morning. After coffee head into Krabi for breakfast. Skies open just as we are about to leave. Wait it out and catch a ride to Wat Tham Suea; a Buddhist temple in the hills. Check out theもっと詳しく
Ban Ao Nang
2025年8月13日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Very short ride out of Krabi town to the seaside resort of Ao Nang. Very touristy, yet beautiful. Walked along the beach to the tip, and hung out watching the tide go out; opening up a walkway toもっと詳しく
Railay Beach
2025年8月14日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Bit rainy in the morning so take our time getting ourselves ready for the day’s adventure. Take a longboat down the coastline to Railay beach - a peninsula only accessible by boat. Explore on footもっと詳しく
Unintended rest day
2025年8月15日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
Very rainy morning. Pore over weather forecasts to figure out how bad it will be. Finally decide to stay and right after we pay for another night, the rain stops. Stays relatively dry for theもっと詳しく
I hate mud
2025年8月16日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
After our morning showers set off, heading east towards the other coast and hopefully dryer weather. Make good time on the big roads but are glad to get onto quieter ones. After a turn, road is noもっと詳しく
A two pool day
2025年8月17日, タイ ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Wake up mostly recovered from yesterday’s adventures. Walk across the road to the local swim hole. Beautiful, cool water. Pack up and continue eastward towards the Gulf of Thailand. Roads remainもっと詳しく
The Gulf of Thailand
2025年8月18日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
With a long day ahead of us and hot weather predicted, opt to get breakfast at the cafe. Nice choice. Leave before 9 - early for us. Rather quickly spot a large cobra crossing the road. Stay vigilantもっと詳しく