Sunday, January 28, 2007

Isn't bicycle touring hell?




Isn't bicycle touring hell?




This is the question you read on tourist's faces as you ride or push your heavily laden bicycle past them as they wait to get onto their air conditioned bus in the back blocks of an Asian country. After the initial shock, some give you an admiring glance while others are confronted by the fact that their grand adventure might not be so adventurous after all.




Careful examination of these photographs will show that bicycle touring bears no resemblance to hell ... not at least the hell portrayed in these paintings on a Chinese temple wall in Eastern Malaysia! Bicycle touring is much more fun!!

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