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south-east-asia: do you want to meet a german couple, that is riding around the world

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We are a German couple riding around the world for allmost 2.5 years now.
In mid october we´ll ship our bikes to East Timor. During the next six month we plan to explore Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
MAYBE Myanmar, Singapore and Brunei, too.



The most important and enjoyable thing about our journey is to meet fellow minded local bike riders/travellers!


If you are interested to meet us, just drop us a message. We would love to stay with you for a night or two and swap some traveller´s stories or talk about bikes or what ever!


Furthermore we are very interested in the motorcycle club scene. I work as a freelancer for THE german MC-magazine (bikers news) and I plan to write an articel about the MC/biker-scene in south-east-asia.
Therefore we would welcome any chance to get an idea of motorcycle club life or to attend motorcycle meetings in your country.

By the way: how do I have to imagine a motorcycle rally here? Is it like in Europe, where many riders gather somewhere in the nature and camp there? At night there´s usually some entertainment programm. How about your country?


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I'll be doing the same area during the next three months, see what happens eh
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I'll be doing the same area during the next three months, see what happens eh
Crossed you path online many times, so hopefully this time we meet somewhere "on the road".

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Shiping timor

SHIP MAY BIKE TO DAY TO TIMOR AT 440 DOLAR FROM DARWIN VEARY EASY AND SMODE MAYBE 30 MINUTS AND ALL WHAS DONE NO CRATING OR ANY THING ELS STOPID GREAT SEE YUO IN TIMOR
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Hi Panny, my wife and I will be in Thailand / Cambodia / Myanmar in December. Probably too early to meet up I guess.
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Hi Panny, my wife and I will be in Thailand / Cambodia / Myanmar in December. Probably too early to meet up I guess.
Hi Martin,

unfortunately we won´t make it up there for December. At least I think so.

Are you going to Myanmar by bike?

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Are you going to Myanmar by bike?
Probably not since we'll only be in that area for five weeks and flying our bike out is too expensive. We were thinking of renting a 125cc scooter in Thailand, they're dirt cheap at roughly 5-8€/day but from what I was told you can't take rentals across any border at all. Thus, we'll probably have to cross the Myanmar border on foot just like the Cambodian border.
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Hi there

we are another german couple also travelling the world by motorcycle....

we are going in the opposite direction. currently, we are in Nepal, and we will be in Thailand by the end of november. from there we will make our way down to Timor.....

would be great to stay in contact. you cansend us an email to
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get in contact with the HTML (Honda Tiger Mailing List) in Indo they can show you all about Indonesia... + they are all lovely, make everything possible and help you wherever it is needed! If you need contact details PM, meet or mail us...

If you get up to Darwin via the WestCoast contact us and lets have a or two...

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I will be in North Thailand, Laos and Cambodia from 10th Dec until end of January too, riding a Honda XR250.

It would be great to meet you guys and perhaps do some riding together.

If anyone would like to meet up, my email is genki62@gmail.com

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