Burmese Days

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Nat Earl launches into cycle touring with a comprehensive exploration of exotic Myanmar. In 2015 there are not many places in that have retained the aura that Myanmar has. Dotted with temples, one of the largest networks of rivers in the world, a mountain range almost as long as the Great Dividing Range but three times
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Island hopping on two wheels

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Arlen Keen goes island hopping on Japan’s Shimanami Kaido bike route. The ‘Shimanami Kaido’ or ‘Sea Route’ is an impressive feat of engineering—a 60km islandhopping expressway opened in 1999 to link the main Japanese islands of Honshu and Shikoku by road. The expressway bounces across half a dozen tiny islands in the Seto Inland Sea, thanks to a series of architecturally diverse suspension bridges.
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