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Bike Aways Rides and other specialty tours in China, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Georgia, and Ethiopia Cycling is the most fun way to travel!

“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.

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20/03/2025

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New road between Vientiane and Chiang Mai cuts travel time by 3 hours

The journey time between Vientiane and Chiang Mai in Thailand has been shortened thanks to a new road that opened to traffic last week.
The opening of Road 11 has shaved more than 200 kilometres off the previous route, meaning that travel time has been reduced from 14 to 10-11 hours.
Motorists using the old route had to cross the Lao-Thai border in Thailand’s Nong Khai province, driving a distance of 863 kilometres....(Continue read) https://www.vientianetimes.org.la/freefreenews/freecontent_054_New_y25.php

24/02/2025

Not how I remembered train travel in Indonesia. That’s how long it’s been. But sharing this Substack post on the new wish train from Jakarta to Bandung. I am proposing it along with the Argo Willis train onto Jakarta to for clients who were booking a trip with me through Indonesia Has anyone been on it? Or been to Bandung lately?

Coffee break in this the beautiful field of dandelions on the road, just outside of Healesville. Philip Island to Echuca...
14/02/2025

Coffee break in this the beautiful field of dandelions on the road, just outside of Healesville. Philip Island to Echuca, the back way.

Indonesia was my first love as an independent traveler dating back to 1991, and then somehow or other China grabbed hold...
13/02/2025

Indonesia was my first love as an independent traveler dating back to 1991, and then somehow or other China grabbed hold, and it’s taken me 32 years to steer my ship back into that ocean. This itinerary is lacking bikes right now but they are coming after a reccy in March. Love to know if anyone’s been to Kalimantan. Another area I’m looking to link in are the peat forests of Central Kalimantan.

Banjarmasin to Loksado A port city on South Kalimantan’s Barito River Delta, former headquarters for the Dutch VOC, seat of Banjar Sultanate and his Dayak army, guarding control over nutmeg, cinnamon and others spices prized throughout the world.This tour is a historical, cultural and ethnobotanic...

Argo Willis Train accross Java.Its been way too long since ive been in this part of the world.
11/12/2024

Argo Willis Train accross Java.
Its been way too long since ive been in this part of the world.

The Argo Wilis Panoramic is a bright and airy carriage on the Argo Wilis train. Running between the cities of Surabaya in East Java and Bandung in West Java, it’s one of the most scenic and underrated train journeys in all of Southeast Asia.

06/11/2024

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This T-shirt needs updating to 2025, beautifully modelled by DJ Divya Rao. Winner of the Best DJ playset at The 2018 You...
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 .

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

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

Loving watching this mission to hitch-hike accross China.It shows hardworking, kind, curious, generous, open people at e...
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...

On the rooftop of the old Xingping YHA drinking tea and stretching as I mentally prep to run up this mountain. When I sa...
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.

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 thi...
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.

Introducing Tshering, our host at the BIM and operator of our Bhutan Bike trips. He is a fit lad, and along with other s...
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.

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