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"
Northern Vietnam: Route 2-79
Exploring The Historical Military Supply Route Through Vietnam's Northern Mountains
Dates: No dates available at this time.
The Vietnamese had, by the 1970s, suffered more than their fair share of bother with the unwanted interference of other nations. So when the Chinese crossed their northern border without invitation in 1979, the war-weary nation wasted no time defending its newfound sovereignty. The North Vietnamese Army was, at the time, arguably more aware than any other military on Earth of the importance of keeping military supply lines open, and so, in February '79 military engineers set about building a supply road tracing their northernmost border - a road that was aptly named 2/79.
And like the wonderful Ho Chi Minh Trail road that follows the border with Lao, QL279 is a mountain road, little used by motorised traffic but kept in good condition due to its strategic importance.A well maintained rural road through stunning mountain scenery, bereft of traffic and leading from one side of a nation to the other - what is there for a cyclist not to like?
Total Days: 15 | Cycling Days: 12 | Difficulty: 7/10 | Daily Average: 80km | See more information, dates & prices »
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 »
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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