Team Dai Ladies

Back in Vientiane after 400km of cycling through rural Laos.  Dusty, sweaty, but happy to have arrived at Patuxi monument and proud of our achievement. 

A great adventure with a great group of people.  As we started on International Women's Day I thought I would start this group of posts about the ride with a post about the women in the group.

As a group of women we were supportive and encouraging of one another and reflect the diversity of the team and the expat community of Vientiane.

Dominique - South Africa, mountain bike queen and triathlete, works in communications. 1st Team Dai Ride, lived in Vientiane for 41/2 years

Brieke - The Netherlands, long distance cycle tourer, works with Helvatas on a project training Laos forestry workers. Was only able to ride with us today, but did a ride 5 years ago and trained for this year. Lived in Vientiane 5 years ago, back here for the last 8 months.

Lena - German ( only 22 !!!), fit and very young, working on a water and sanitation project. 1st Team Dai Ride. Arrived in Vientiane 6 months ago.

Megan - Australian, living in Manila now, but came back to Laos for the Challenge, fit and focused,  development consultant, was Chairperson of the VIS Board, her husband is now Belgian Ambassador to the Philippines. 3rd Team Dai Ride. Lived in Vientiane for 4 years, moved back to Belgium, and moved to the Philippines 6 months ago.

Hannah - Australian, fit and young, works at the Australian Embassy, but leaving next week after a 3 year posteing. 3rd Team Dai Ride

Thu - Vietnam, fit and strong, has her own business and is doing an MBA at the Laos University. 3rd Team Dai Ride, lived here for more than 6 years.

Mary - Australia (not 22 !!) - 2nd Team Dai Ride