TRAVEL BLOG - Rolling East https://rollingeast.com A bike ride across the world Sun, 12 Jul 2020 13:02:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://rollingeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-Untitled-design-2-32x32.png TRAVEL BLOG - Rolling East https://rollingeast.com 32 32 The Promised Land (part II) – Cycling in Southern Vietnam https://rollingeast.com/the-promised-land-part-ii-cycling-in-southern-vietnam/ https://rollingeast.com/the-promised-land-part-ii-cycling-in-southern-vietnam/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2018 12:46:22 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=1926 Between Hue and Hoi An, the hills and Hai Van pass marked the crossing of an invisible, yet well defined, border into Southern Vietnam. Peculiarly, it seemed that on the other side of the mountain another world was lying ahead of us. The sun was finally shining, and a glorious descent along the winding coast …

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]]> https://rollingeast.com/the-promised-land-part-ii-cycling-in-southern-vietnam/feed/ 0 The Promised Land (part I) – Cycling in Northern Vietnam https://rollingeast.com/the-promised-land-cycling-in-northern-vietnam/ https://rollingeast.com/the-promised-land-cycling-in-northern-vietnam/#respond Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:10:09 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=1814 With Christmas fast approaching and an apartment booked in Hanoi for the festivities, we quickly climbed our way from Laos to the border with Vietnam. Filled with anticipation and excitement we eagerly waited for the bus that should have taken us to Vinh, to then catch our connecting train to Hanoi. Skipping our way up …

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]]> https://rollingeast.com/the-promised-land-cycling-in-northern-vietnam/feed/ 0 The Grass Is Always Greener https://rollingeast.com/the-grass-is-always-greener/ https://rollingeast.com/the-grass-is-always-greener/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2017 03:32:36 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=1249 As we sit on a train, travelling 6 hours from Vinh to Hanoi, I came across this blog written in Murgrab that never made press. It was great to read it after a few months and hopefully you will enjoy it too! It’s amazing the thoughts that go through your head while on the bike. …

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]]> https://rollingeast.com/the-grass-is-always-greener/feed/ 1 Singing hills – cycling touring in Laos https://rollingeast.com/cycling-in-laos/ https://rollingeast.com/cycling-in-laos/#respond Sat, 23 Dec 2017 01:50:06 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/cycling-in-laos/ After a lazy month spent in Northern Thailand we finally made our way to Laos. An easy border crossing into our 20th country led us to a small town where we got the slow boat to Pak Beng. For many people, it was only the stopover to Luang Prabang, but for us, it was where …

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]]> https://rollingeast.com/a-head-full-of-dreams/feed/ 2 The things you leave behind – Kyrgyzstan’s undiscovered beauty https://rollingeast.com/the-things-you-leave-behind/ https://rollingeast.com/the-things-you-leave-behind/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:49:04 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=599 I didn’t know you could get so affectionate to a road. I realized it only a couple of days ago when we finally left the M41 at an anonymous junction in the small town of Kara-Balta, Kyrgyzstan. At that intersection, the same road we had been following for two months abruptly ended, right in front …

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