¡Buenos dias amigos!

I’ve had some issues with my website for a few weeks now but it looks to be back to normal and just in time to let you folks know that the latest episode of Planet Kapow is now online.

In this ep we travel from beautiful Granada (Nicaragua) and check out Volcán Mombacho – no lava yet again but beautiful flora and fauna (including a baby deer), then we shoot to Managua (probably the least coolest city on the trip up to this point), then take a day and a half on buses & boats passing through El Rama and Bluefields to eventually arrive on Big Corn Island (a nice little slice of paradise).

As usual head on over to Planet Kapow, read Lachie’s article, and check out all that is episode 31 – “Granada to Corn Islands”:

http://www.planetkapow.com/1775

When I can get to some great bandwidth I’ll upload the HD version.

On July 12th 2009 Nicholas Ward and Adam Teale left Bangkok Thailand and rode their bicycles south through Thailand and Malaysia, and after 2100km and nearly a month of riding, made it to Singapore

Here it is via Vimeo:

Dude, where’s my Jakkayarn? from Adam Teale on Vimeo.

Download the 854×480 h264 version

6 Comments

• At Tue 24, November 2009, Patrick wrote:

  Awesome video Mr Teale!

  Where are you at now btw?

• At Tue 24, November 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Hahaha, awesome video. Gives a nice touch to all the reading. :-) Loved the spy cam. :-D

• At Thu 26, November 2009, Adam wrote:

  Thanks Guys!

  @Patrick - am in southern thailand hanging out on Koh Lanta island. You gotta check it out sometime!

• At Thu 26, November 2009, Luke wrote:

  Thanks for sharing the trip with us, great work on the bike-cam and editing. You two rock.

  L

• At Fri 27, November 2009, ano wrote:

  well done sir. quite jealous. next trip?

• At Fri 27, November 2009, Adam wrote:

  cheers fellas!

  @ano - Next trip - not sure, heading to Sydney to work until July next year. By then I'm sure i'll be keen to go on an adventure again!

  What about you dude??

Could this be it???

Yes.

WE MADE IT TO SINGAPORE!!!

But what a hell of day!

I was joking about having some contracted some kind of disease yesterday. But today I felt very ill all day. But it could just be fatigue combined with lots of mosquito bites. TIme will tell.

After working out what would possibly be our last route to take we said cheerio to Batu Pahat and headed to Pontian Kechil.

Luckily as we got into the ride my flu symptoms started to go away ad we were able to get some distance covered.

(The entrance to Singapore we think we should have taken).

After 100km or so we made it to the home stretch and everything was coming up roses. The guy at the toll booth / customs to exit Malaysia let us through without having to pay.

(free exit)

So here we are, passing into Singapore Immigration. Everything looked great. Until a couple of officials came running up to us and looked very worried.

We’d joked about how we’ll probably accidently break the law in Singapore.

Before we knew it we were inside explaining why we had ridden our bikes into Singapore.

Apparently it had been 20 years since the last time someone rode in through this bridge. Why?

Well it turns out …. IT IS ILLEGAL!

The Customs officials were going to send us back to Malaysia to reenter Singapore from the Jahor Bahru entrance. If I hadn’t just cycled 120km I’d have been ok with it but I was exhausted.

LUCKILY after a few phone calls to their superiors the Customs guys let us through and escorted us to the highway (which is also illegal to ride on).

(Tiger beer brewery!)

Awesome – Nicholas and I got flat tyres within 5 minutes of each other . It felt like we were never going to make it to Singapore!

So here we are. We made it to Singapore!

It feels weird. It’s been nearly a month on the road. We’ve ridden something like 2100km!

I have felt better.

Total KM: 150km

3 Comments

• At Sat 8, August 2009, Adam wrote:

  yeah yeah!

  Nicholas we are cool.

• At Mon 10, August 2009, Chris Crowell wrote:

  What? They didn't check you for Swine Flu???

• At Mon 10, August 2009, Angela V wrote:

  Congrats guys, hope you've enjoyed it, the blog has been really interesting to follow, loved all the photos. Get better soon Adam! Ang

So close to Singapore! Nearly the home stretch! That’s if can make it…

I am covered in some sort of bites, assuming them to be mosquito bites, but yes I’m not a doctor. Fingers crossed I don’t have dengue, n1h1, malaria or any other excellent disease.

We said goodbye to Steven and the Shirah’s guesthouse and continued towards Singapore eventually stopping at a town called Batu Pahat.

Got some great vegetarian food here with ‘fake meat’ (why even bother?).

BP is a pretty decent sized town but was a bit of a struggle to find a place to sleep. Ended up in a brothel but the price for the room inc. girl for the night was too high.

Ended up at the cheapest place we could find called “Fairyland” – 30RM.

Total KM: 95km

We have spent the past 2 days hanging out in the peaceful port town of Melacca full of history and tasty food.

My favourite being the “Hainanese Chicken Rice Balls”.

Balls of rice cooked/soaked/steamed?? in chicken stock – apparently the tastier ones are made with real chicken stock.

We stayed at the coolest place on our journey yet – 15RM a night at the “Shirah’s Guesthouse” run by 2 great guys Steven and Zaki.

Rice ball. Tasty food which Mr.Teale can not have enough of. To be honest I have to control myself too.

Cruising around the historic city. So many old house and buildings.

Outside the Museum of Melaka.

Some Arty store down town China town.

Another nice ‘Wall’ for Adam.

Having a break.

Having some local noodle dish. Big dish 4 RM each. Another delicious dish.

Taking off for some more local food.

Adam, Zaki and Steven. Mr. Teale trying to convince these guys to buy a mac.

Shirah’s Guest house.. Best people best Atmosphere.

Tanya & Kelly currently cycling through Asia and are keeping up a great blog of their adventure:
http://grannygear.wordpress.com

Hannah sent me a link to a friend of hers who is cycling around the world for 8 years!!!
Great website to follow him on:
http://www.cyclestrongman.com

A Japanese guy who has been cycling around the world for the past 11 years!!
He has travelled more than 100,000 kilometres!
http://www.daisukebike.be/en/index.html

Not a bunch to say except that the highlight of the day was getting fresh pineapple and pineapple juice just as we entered Malacca.

Amazing pineapple!

Had some good luck finding a place to stay – Shirah’s guesthouse run by a guy called Steven – sounds like he’s travelled a lot!

Looking forward to checking out Malacca tomorrow.

Total KM: 66km

Leaving KL was like lost in a maze. So we just head south. We must did 5 Uturns that morning. But eventually we got to the suburbs at about dawn. Saw some Chinese folks doing Tai-Chi.

stop and have some breakfast at a Indian restaurant. Asking for directions. I realise that we it,s not so far away to Singapore(400 km or so).

A lot less traffic when we were out of KL. And the weather was just right.

An Ocean of Palm tree Plantation. Hill over hill over hill… It was terrible. It was hot as hell. The smell was awful. Imagine that all these hills use to be forest with an eco-system. Nothing but the palm trees that these guys(below) planted. So I wonder if these palm trees could survive if there’s no one to take care of them? Anyway we tried to escape it asap. Eventually as we got closer to the coast the forest came back again giving an idea what this place use to be.

Port Dickson, Teluk-pantai touristy place for the Malaysian.

We tried to find a hotel. Kept asking and kept going. Until there was no hotels left. So we had to go back a few km.

Total KM: 102km

3 Comments

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• At Wed 5, August 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  How is the spirit guys? It feels a bit routine as I read it, but however, wow! You are so close to Singapore! Great achievement! I love to read your stories, makes my day. Keep on going, and post more of the places where you end up. :-)

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Not much to say about today, spent most of it waiting for the ferry from Langkawi to Penang – the 2pm was fully booked so had to wait until 5:15pm. Caught up on emails and drank milo from a box.

The ferry was about 75RM plus an extra 10-20RM for our bikes. The boat folks lashed the bikes onto the front of the ferry. I can’t really see where the extra RM went.
The journey took about 3 hours.

Total KM: ummm… should this be in knots?

http://dudewheresmyjakkayarn.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/day-11-hay-yai-thailand-to-langkawi-island-malaysia/