Day 215 – 7th November 2014 Yangon
Tourist day in Yangon. Yangon was the capital of Myanmar until 2005 when Naypyidaw became the capital. Yangon is a big city with 7,000,000 people. We couldn’t take our bikes into the city as in 2000 a motorcyclist shot a Military General and now the Generals live in fear of assassination, this feels strange as […]
Day 214 – 6th November 2014 Leave 8am Miles rode 230 Naypyidaw – Yangon
Tropical Rain! Yangon was the Capitol of Myanmar until 2005 when Naypyidaw became the Capitol. Like so many new cities Naypyidaw has new 4 lane roads with no traffic and new buildings everywhere, hotels, museums and government buildings but no people so we rode out of the city in the rain alone! It was a […]
Day 213 – 5th November 2014 Leave 8am Miles rode 177 Nyaung Shwe – Pyinmana
An easy days ridding on good roads. Everyday we stop for lunch and again we were not disappointed, the food everywhere in Myanmar has been top quality and the variety of dishes at every meal is amazing. On arriving at the hotel there were 10 girls waiting to present us flowers, wow, what a welcome.
Day 212 – 4th November 2014 Nyaung Shwe
Another day playing tourist. We spent the day being taken around Inle lake in a traditional long, narrow boat. The lake is massive and we powered through the waterway with ease passing fishermen who managed to work the nets with their hands and row the boat with one leg, incredible skill. The wetlands around were […]
Day 211 – 3rd November 2014 Leave 10.15am Miles rode 40 Kalaw – Nyaung Shwe
A short ride today followed by my best experience so far in Myanmar. My bike is in need of some repairs and service, the rear sprocket is on its last legs, the chain is way past its best, my rear tyre has only a couple of mm of tread left and after the hard ‘off […]
Day 210 – 2nd November 2014 Leave 7.15am Miles rode 169 Bagan – Kalaw (Burma)
Burma is beautiful with tropical forests, traditional villages and very happy people. It was an easy ride along perfect roads with blue skies and hardly any traffic, the first 120 miles straight and the last 50 twisting up a mountain through rain forest. Unlike many other countries I’ve travelled in recently Burma doesn’t have any […]
Day 209 – 1st November 2014 Bagan (Burma)
We all played tourists today. The mini coach (Ha Ha) collected us at midday and took us off to see the sights, what I hadn’t expected was to see the cast of ‘cocoon’ in many coaches throughout the day. I had assumed Myanmar was in the early days of tourism, wrong! Old people on coaches […]
Day 208 – 31st October 2014 Leave 8am Miles rode 239 Kalaymyo – Bagan (Burma)
The phone rang in the hotel at at 5.35am, it was our wake up call. We were ready to roll out of the hotel car park at 7am but one of the BMW1200GS’s wouldn’t start. We left 8am and the BMW caught us up later. We knew we had a long day but didn’t envisage […]
Day 207 – 30th October 2014 Leave 7am Miles rode 164 Imphal – Kalaymyo (Burma)
After months of discussions and anticipation the day arrived when we enter Myanmar. At 7am 11 people from 8 countries were ready for an adventure. We rode out of town in convoy and it felt really good, all the local people seemed to know we were ridding to the border and the police held the […]
