Fallow
As PaintedRoads is a small personal operation always with the same tour leader, running each and every tour, each and every year is not possible. So, as a farmer allows his finest field to rest from time to time, we allow some tours to lay fallow as new ones come along. Fear not though, these classics will be back.
Our Tours in category "Fallow"
Taiwan - North to South
Formosa - Cycling The Beautiful Island
Dates: No dates available at this time.
Taiwan, off of the east coast of the People’s Republic of China, is perhaps Asia’s best-kept cycling secret. Only 400 kilometres in length the island formerly known as Isla Formosa - The Beautiful Isle, packs in a huge amount. The central area is a range of mountains reaching up to four-thousand metres above sea level. The west coast, from Taipei to Kaohsiung is the industrial heartland where most of the nations twenty-four million inhabitants dwell, whilst the rugged east coast where this tour runs offers stunning views and wonderful cycling on dedicated cycleways and deserted byways.
Taiwan, an undiscovered cyclists paradise.
Total Days: 11 | Cycling Days: 8 | Difficulty: 6/10 | Daily Average: 75km | See more information, dates & prices »
Mongolia Grand Odyssey
Bulgan, Khangai & Gobi Desert cycling adventure
Dates: No dates available at this time.
By invitation only.
LabRat Runs have quickly become a PaintedRoads tradition. A group of easygoing and adventurous regulars, The LabRats annually sate their appetite for adventure by joining the inaugural running of a PaintedRoads adventure tour.
The third and final in the trilogy of PaintedRoads Mongolia LabRat Runs, this journey will take us on our most eclectic Mongolian odyssey yet.
We begin with a classic train trip across the Mongolian Steppe, before mounting or bicycles and heading south across the Bulgan hills, the beautiful green Khangai mountains and onwards to the fabled Gobi Desert.
Total Days: 20 | Cycling Days: 15 | Difficulty: 7/10 | Daily Average: 56km | See more information, dates & prices »
China - Sichuan Tibet
A Journey Through The Mountains of Eastern Tibet
Dates: No dates available at this time.
Tibet is an almost fabled land that many long to visit but few do. For most people when thinking of Tibet it is of Lhasa, the Potala Palace, and Everest, the Tibet of the classic Lhasa to Kathmandu ride. This is the Tibet of The Autonomous Region which unfortunately suffers travel restrictions and the need for foreign travel permits, permits that are all too frequently not issued or withheld.
The Tibetan region of Kham in Sichuan Province fortunately suffers no such restrictions and is open for anyone holding a Chinese visa. Having explored the area several times by bike during the first decade of this century it has long been David’s desire to run a tour in Kham. This is a truly Tibetan experience with soaring mountains, hight passes, open pastures and narrow valleys. There are monasteries and monks, yaks and barley, and cowboys on motorbikes. The tour also boasts lower sleeping altitudes, comfortable hotels, and the absolutely wonderful cuisine of Sichuan - Kham offers an excellent opportunity for a cycling adventure in a most exotic land.
Total Days: 16 | Cycling Days: 11 | Difficulty: 9/10 | Daily Average: 86km | See more information, dates & prices »
Vietnam - Northeast
Cycling An Enchanted Landscape
Dates: No dates available at this time.
Tiers of rice terraces fading seemingly to infinity as they drop away through a vast valley, karst pinnacles like those from a Chinese water painting, minority people whose way of life and dress is little touched by the outside influences of the global village most of us inhabit; North East Vietnam as such is possibly the most stunning destination in South East Asia for a cycling holiday, and this tour is all about adventure. From Hanoi in the north of Vietnam, we first transfer to within a few kilometres of the Chinese border from where we set out by bicycle to explore a region overwhelmed with natural splendour. The cycling is on small, quiet roads with challenging climbs and breathtaking descents. Our exploration of this part of Vietnam follows valley floors, climbs through karst hills and past rice fields, crosses spectacular mountain passes and explores wonderful plateaus. If you desire a bicycle touring adventure through a Vietnam little visited by outsiders then The Painted Roads North East Vietnam cycle tour could well be for you.
Note that this holiday includes an optional extension to include a visit to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Halong Bay. See below for details.
Total Days: 13 | Cycling Days: 8 | Difficulty: 7/10 | Daily Average: 80km | See more information, dates & prices »
Tri Nations. Vietnam-Laos-Thailand
A Bicycle Exploration of Indochina
Dates: No dates available at this time.
Three neighbouring nations, three written scripts, two and a half languages, two political systems, one major religion.
Not only is this tour a cycling odyssey through fascinating regions along a path less trodden, it is a journey of discovery through three lands that for all the world should be so alike, but in actuality are so very different. History, colonial powers, war, religion, extreme political struggles - all have left deep marks on these lands and their people. Even now these same forces are morphing and changing these countries as we cycle through, and it is passing through at a human pace, by bicycle, that allows us to meet the people, sample the food, smell the aromas, and hear the daily life exchanges that are what travels and exploration are all about.
Total Days: 16 | Cycling Days: 11 | Difficulty: 7/10 | Daily Average: 94km | See more information, dates & prices »
Mongolia Altai
Mongolia's Alti Mountains
Dates: No dates available at this time.
Total Days: 15 | Cycling Days: 10 | Difficulty: 8/10 | Daily Average: 55km | See more information, dates & prices »
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