Temple – Page 3 – Simply cycling around

Surat Thani > Wat Suwan Thararam (78km)

Today we managed to stay off the highway during the whole day, thanks to google maps. Since we got to Thailand we have seen lots of cyclist on the road. The funny thing is that lots of them have a mountain bike, very clean, very new because they seem to ride only on the road. At least they look more sporty than Indonesian or Malaysian. At a certain time, we ended cycling on tiny roads, passing through small villages with cute little train station and other large forest of rubber and palm oil trees. BIG news today, my hammock got fixed! I hope it will last!

Phetkasem road > Krabi area (52km, 3h)

Today we are going to reach Krabi and visit a temple positioned onto the summit of a rock. The temple is called “Tiger Cave temple”. The name comes from the tiger paw prints that a monk found here. Actually, we never seen that cave… Only the summit and the sunset. After that, we kept cycling towards Ao Nang beach which is the place from where we can visit different islands around. My 10$ budget will be hardly respected.

Penang, Chinatown, second visit

We did not see everything in Chinatown yesterday so we have a second round today. We have visited more Chinese temple, seen more street art and walk too much! Yes, I prefer cycling than walking. This is much easier :-) Tonight is the last day of 2015. We planned to see the fireworks. We saw it but not in the best conditions. Finally, this is when we returned to our campsite that the night really started. Always no plan is the best one :-) That worked for 2015 and it’s going to work in 2016, for sure! Happy New Year!

Ipoh south > Ipoh north (41km, 3h)

Today, we are going to stay in Ipoh and around. Ipoh being a bigger town that what we cross usually, Steph wants to buy some gear. There is also few interesting Buddhist temple mixed with caves to visit in this area. It a kind of resting day today, a lazy one ;-) This is Christmas eve too so give us a nice treat :-)