A Chinese-built railway took most of the freight off the old road. What that did to Route 13 north of Vang Vieng is the best thing to happen to riding in Laos in twenty years.
Five sacred peaks, Mongolia’s highest ground and its longest glacier, where four countries almost touch. The far end of the Altai ride, and the last hour is not a road.
Gelephu International Airport now takes flights from abroad, and Bhutan’s visitor numbers are climbing. What a second gateway changes for a Bhutan ride.
A glacier collapse killed more than 1,400 people in August, a year after the Gen Z uprising. What it means for riding Nepal this autumn, honestly.
Ladakh passed its whole 2025 tourist count in eight months, hosted its first Bike Week and is reworking foreigner permits. What it means for your ride.
Foreign visitors to Angkor fell sharply in 2026. Why it happened, what it feels like on the ground, and how to reach the temples by bike right now.
Vietnam is heading for a record year, with Europeans arriving in force. What the boom means on the mountain roads, and how to ride the north without the crowd.
A bamboo platform on two axles doing forty kilometres an hour down a warped track. Battambang is the most likeable town in Cambodia and almost nobody stops there.
Fewer than a hundred Irrawaddy dolphins are left in the Mekong and most live in a deep pool upstream of a town nobody stops in. Day one of the Cambodia ride goes there.
Day four of twenty is a rest day and it is the one that changes the shape of the whole trip. A morning at the Peace Memorial and an afternoon on an island with deer on the ferry ramp.










