Laos

9. Cycling for pleasure

Posted by on 28, Dec 2024 in 2024 - SE Asia, Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Tilly the Tandem | 1 comment

9. Cycling for pleasure

The next leg of the trip was through a remote agricultural landscape with only 1 town and few villages or places to eat and almost no shade. The one potential stop was a fleapit mentioned earlier and we didn’t know if we could manage a hilly 140km cycle to miss it. The lack of shade and of course being into the wind wasn’t appealing. So after a long discussion (who are we kidding!) we decided we didn’t want to cycle just for the sake of cycling. And we also fancied being in Phnom Penh for Christmas for a nut roast – I kid you not! So, we hired a car and driver to skip...

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