CAN I CYCLE ACROSS THAILAND ALONE? 🇹🇭 (Part Three)

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For the next few weeks I’m attempting  to cycle across the entire country of   Thailand I’m certainly not a cyclist and I’m not  even that fit so this is going to be quite the challenge but I absolutely love this country and  I love to have Adventures so let’s have it in the  

Previous episode I set off from mayai which is the  Northerly most point of the country and after two   full days of cycling I made it to the lovely city  of Paya I hope you’re enjoying the series so far  

Subscribe to the channel if you’re new and if  you’re enjoying this series and let’s [Music] [Applause] begin good morning welcome back to the  adventure of cycling across Thailand on my bicycle   which by the way is named Nora Nora the explorer  so thank you to Barbara and a few other people  

That helped me choose a name we are leaving pay  I was a little bit worse for wear when I arrived   here after my first 100 plus kilometer day and  I’ll be honest with you I had to take a day off  

I had to take a rest day yesterday when I woke up  at 6:00 in the morning I’d hardly slept and um I   had diarrhea so I didn’t really feel like going  on the bike I gave my body a bit of a rest and I  

Just enjoyed this beautiful area and went down  by the lake enjoyed the sunset enjoyed a cold   beer and enjoyed P which is a really laid-back  City on a gorgeous Lake but we are not resting   in today’s episode in today’s episode my plan is  distance 58 km to a little bridge where there’s a  

Town we’re going to stay there tonight and then  we’re going to hit the mountains again there is   one mountain climb today so we will be doing  a couple of hundred met elevation so we’re all  

Packed up raring to go so let’s go now that I had  a few days experience behind me I had learned that   pushing myself over the 100 km mark on a day’s  ride anyway just wasn’t feasible at the minute  

My fitness and my endurance is just not up to that  level so shooting for a town only 60 km away gave   me much more confidence to relax and to go at a  much more sustainable Pace I want to share with  

You my breakfast routine that I’ve been doing  recently and I probably will be doing for the   rest of the series most importantly bananas then  I love these this is like a electrolyte drink  

Brand for 12 BS and I mix it with my water and  then you cannot beat a 40 bar ice Americano with   no sugar for your caffeine boost and your morning  coffee cheap and if you ask me the best coffee in  

The world and then something that I have all the  time not just when I’m cycling but in normal life   I love this this is like a prawn omelette with  chives and rice and it’s 42 bar I believe and it  

Is so yummy so good so all of this you’ve got your  carbs you’ve got your potassium you’ve got your   caffeine you’ve got your electrolytes all for just  over 100 BS you can’t go wrong yeah you can’t go  

Wrong with that breakfast but you can go wrong if  you cycle for too far on these tie highways these   main roads offer a much more direct route but  they do give that added danger of the massive  

Trucks and the cars that whiz right past you so  since today was less daunting in terms of distance   I actually decided to take a longer more scenic  route through the Country Roads these roads would   actually add a few hours but at least I would be  much more in touch with the surroundings further  

Away from the dangerous trucks and for me this is  one of the reasons why I wanted to cycle across Thailand out here you see the country in  a whole new way and it gives you a new

Perspective of course I can’t avoid the main roads  the entire way and I’ll be using them throughout   my trip almost every day but at least for this  stretch in the morning I was far away from the   traffic and much more in touch with this beautiful  side of the country after a glorious morning’s  

Ride through lampang I decided to pull over to  make my favorite cocktail of liquids electrolytes   just to refuel to rehydrate and also gave me  a chance to show off the new part of my bike  

Yeah this is the new phone holder thank you to my  friend Kevin who drove over from changai to give   it to me and to have dinner with me yesterday  and uh yeah here it is it’s um really sturdy  

But the best part is you just pull that down like  that I mean look how easy that is to get out just   pull it down this piece here moves down like that  and it’s bolted in here and it’s on this really  

Strong Mount that’s on the handlebars and I just  he said to me you know house things on the bike   and I said yeah everything’s fine except for my  phone holder I bought a cheap one never buy cheap  

Mounts guys even my um GoPro not GoPro 360 Mount  this thing cost me like $35 but look at it it’s   metal it’s sturdy and I just went cheap on the  phone holder and I immediately regretted it so  

Thank you Kevin for the upgrade hello so welcome  to a hill climb here in Northern Thailand it’s   been about half an hour had my head down had my  podcast in my ear cheering me on I’m listening to  

Gary liner and Alan sheira football legends and  it’s getting me through it it’s nice to set off   early we can get these climbs out the way and  we’re doing okay left knee hurts the pain from  

The end of the 100K ride has come back so there’s  something wrong there but I’m just hoping like   any football injury I can walk it off or cycle it  on obviously cycling on this highway is not ideal  

But there is a large hard shoulder funny story  actually when I was planning this trip I opened   Google Maps and for some reason I couldn’t find  the cycle option you know let’s say you’re in the  

UK and you want to go from Newcastle to Edinburgh  or something Google Maps will give you loads of   different options driving a car public transport  walking and of course a cycle and it will give   you the best route to take for cyclists but in  Thailand the cycling option just isn’t there  

At first I thought I had to update my Google Maps  but no there just isn’t a cycling Network in this country hence why we cycle next to the big trucks  it might seem super dangerous technically it is   but here in Thailand this is normal okay  I’ve lived here and I’ve traveled across  

It for years I know not to get myself  into mischief and using my experience   of motorcycling across this country for years  I know as long as I stay in my Lane I should   be fine oh I think we’ve just hit the top  of this mountain look at this up ahead it’s  

Starting to go down oh we switch gear we’ll  follow this truck down and we’ll use his [Music] slipstream thankfully when it comes  to cycling what goes up must come down and   these downhill sections were just pure  bliss all that hard work of constantly  

Going uphill constantly battling the heat  is finally rewarded with the fast downhill   section the only thing about the downhill part  is that they just never seem to last very long   it seems like after a few seconds you’re  back on the flat or straight into another

Climb okay so this is a bit of a shame we are  in this gorgeous Town famous for this beautiful   bridge and I wanted to cycle across for the video  but um yeah I don’t know what this says obviously  

But it seems to say don’t drive across this or do  anything naughty to do with this bridge um I just   I did just see an old lady cycle well push a bike  across so I I think I’m I’m I think I’m okay to  

Stand on it and maybe walk across a little bit  but uh it certainly seen better days it’s very   rusted but it’s a beautiful wooden [Music] bridge  but they’ve built this other nicer bridge for the  

Roads for the cars I should say and uh because  it is the coming up to the hottest part of the   year you can see that it hasn’t rained very  much for months so it’s very low this River  

Today’s going to be one of those days where it’s  just turned into a bit of a half day because I’m   going to stay in this town because the next town  is another 90 km from here and I’ve just done 40  

45 and I don’t have it in me to do 90 extra  today going to enjoy this town going to come   back in the afternoon and enjoy this bridge and  see if it comes alive in the evening in the late  

Afternoon cuz that’s when tired people get out and  about everybody’s taking a nap right [Music] now   so there was no need for me to push myself 90  extra kilm to the next city and it was actually  

A refreshing change of pace to find my place of  rest for the evening and call it a day after only   6 hours I found this little hotel only 750 bar  for the night it was just what I needed it was  

Clean it was cheap and it was centrally located in  this little town basically and so that evening I   walked back to the bridge to enjoy the atmosphere  and the gorgeous evening rolled in around me down   by the river turns out that in the evenings  the local kids have their football practice  

Down here and I found a cool restaurant and I met  the local who owned it and we had a few beers sank   a few whiskies watch the sunset and watch the  kids practice football Under The Glorious and  

Beautiful wooden bridge it had been a wonderful  easy day in comparison to the previous few but   tomorrow and for the next few days there will  be many more challenges and stressful things   to overcome so if you want to continue watching  click on the next episode right here right now