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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” Mark Twain.

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.” Hemingway. It gets you into the action and away from the tourists. Designed for NON hardcore riders, we use bicycles to get in the thick of it, rather than racing you from A to B at Tour de

France speed. Our epicentre is Hong Kong, so Bikeaways trips are mostly designed for people living in China who want an action-packed city escape. ECO is our Philosophy

No flags, no mega phones … off the beaten track, heritage destinations and forgotten villages where we can spread our business are some of the criteria in designing our trips. Fostering an appreciation of heritage and supporting sustainable traditions become more real with the access a bike gives you to places off the map. For China city-based expats, these are refreshingly natural getaways that don’t burn excess fuel to get there – or get around.

- Xiamen, our base for the Fujian tulou rides is now just four hours on a bullet train from Shenzhen or a one hour flight from Hong Kong; two hours from Shanghai; three from Beijing. The Kaiping Diaolou in Guangdong are even closer to Hong Kong. Yangshuo – one of the best cycling destinations in the world is also a comfortable overnight sleeper train from the border town of Shenzhen right next to Hong Kong. We stay in accommodation with personality – traditional or family run where possible. Food and tea are an important part of the experience.

06/11/2024

Thanks for this

02/11/2024

This T-shirt needs updating to 2025, beautifully modelled by DJ Divya Rao. Winner of the Best DJ playset at The 2018 Young bike Festival. Next year we are planning to do this in the Easter holiday period .

31/10/2024

Posting here to remeber interesting places like these for future bike trips.

After 20 years of frantic city-building, rustic China is in a death spiral. Now architects are helping to reverse the exodus – with inspirational tofu factories, rice wine distilleries and lotus tea plants

30/10/2024

https://www.langsamreisen.de/en/
Interesting travel company. Books you on freighters / cargo/ container ships in true slow travel style

Book your Slowtravel experience: Sailing, Freighter travel, train travel, Antarctic cruises & Camino de Santiago. Atmosfair CO2 compensation included

29/10/2024

Posting this as a reminder to one day explore this canal near Guilin. Could be part of a grander journey navigating the river and canal system that once linked Canton to Beijing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5mBcfZ1pS8

18/10/2024

Loving watching this mission to hitch-hike accross China.
It shows hardworking, kind, curious, generous, open people at every step...
I love the awkwardness of miscommunications, his boldness in freely videoing everyone, including the police , and the willingness of everyone to try and understand each other using language apps, or just settling in to comfortable silence.

In this video I'll attempt to travel over 2000km across China. Nothing could have prepared me for what was to come on this journey.enjoy, mike x--------My Pr...

27/09/2024

On the rooftop of the old Xingping YHA drinking tea and stretching as I mentally prep to run up this mountain. When I say run, I could be fantasizing but the is but 5 months away.

27/09/2024

This is a still from a video of my nephew Tom Foreman introducing to the camera, that we will set up a tea party on this very slippery weir on the Yulong River and play a game of backgammon in an attempt to make tea drinking more impractical.

05/09/2024

Introducing Tshering, our host at the BIM and operator of our Bhutan Bike trips. He is a fit lad, and along with other staff / team members participates in a bunch more running and biking races throughout the year.

22/11/2023

Quote from the 'Australian Town and Country' journal from 1884.

"Touring is one of the strong points of cycling, and one of its grand attractions. Racing is for the few who excel in speed, strength, and endurance, but touring is as much for the ‘mug’ as the ‘flyer’, the old and the young, the clubman and the unattached. The tourist on wheels experiences a sense of freedom hardly possible to anyone else. He is independent of train, coach, or horse; can travel quite as fast as a horse, and cover more miles in a day, and the distance he can travel is only limited by his own physical power."

Source: Australian Town and Country Journal, 12 April 1884, p. 36.

Photo: The Stanmore Waratah Rovers Bicycle Club, 1896.
Frank Walker glass slide collection, Royal Australian Historical Society.

22/11/2023

This is a great new service. Looking forward to trying it out.

New ferry service between Sai Kung Pier and High Island makes journey easier.

18/11/2023

28th Feb — 3rd March 2024 ( or extend to the 7th with a bike ride to Gangtey Monastery) Be an early bird. Book now by emailing [email protected] Join us in Punakha for this spectacularly scenic marathon in the former winter capital of Bhutan. Choose half or the full. All experience levels are we...

17/11/2023

1/2 Marathon anyone?
I'm less running fit than I was 4 years ago when we first listed this trip, and am not sure there are enough months before the Bhutan international Marathon on the 2nd March 2024 to train for the full run.
And I'll probably walk half of it.
But if you're more gungho and ganhuo than me - you are still in good hands. Our Bhutan crew are marathon mad and several have personally run all of the majors this year.
This is a five day trip with bikes provided for both runners and non- runners. i.e bring along your non running friends and partners.

Its a great opportunity having such active fit operators!!!

Bangkok, Delhi or Kathmandu are the usual hopping off points for flights into Paro!

05/09/2023

10/08/2023

Dog and bike on the U Bein bridge. Myanmar 2019

20/07/2023

Cycling through fields of wild flowers, this is the road to Lentekhi - coming off Svanetti. A fabulously long downhill road with virtually no traffic on day 10 of our Epic Grand Georgian Traverse.

Next trip is 2nd 13th September - in just 6 weeks.

14/07/2023

Grand Georgia Traverse
2nd – 13th September 2023
12 days/ 11 nights
USD 3500
12 pax max

Tbilisi – Gori – Bakuriani – Tabatskuri – Akhalkalaki – Vardzia – Akhaltsikhe – Godedzi Pass – Batumi – Svanetti – Ushguli (highest village in Europe) – Ushba Glacier – Mestia – Mount Shkhara – Prometheus Cave – Tbilisi.

Balcony of Europe, Cross roads of the Caucasus, and museum of medieval culture.
Tiny churches sit atop dramatic snowy mountains, Imposing watch towers, and a culture that has its own alphabet and completely unique culture unrelated to its neighbours.

Cave cities offered refuge from the Mongols, who still dream about Georgia as a land of milk and honey.
Mosques and palaces remain from the Ottomans, the Azerbaijanies and Armenians along the southern borders.
Stalin was born in Gori, Prometheus was chained to his rock Kazbegi, and the Golden Fleece of Jason and his argonaughts originated in the traditions of Georgians using sheep skins to pan the gold carrying snowmelt of Svanetti – one of the most beautiful Alpine regions in the world.

The oldest wine vessels are from Georgia – and the wine is everywhere and delicious.

Trust us, this route is the bomb and a great combination of the best you can get on a bike – with transfers across anything remotely mundane so you see more of the Georgiousness.

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The polyphonic singing is the best bit of this reel all filmed in one day in Mestia, Svanetti, in the High Caucasus. The choir were singing at little folk festival in the town square - after which we rode up along these medieval feud enabling watchtowers, and into the mountains for a little glacier visit.