Amazon adventure: A week with the Waorani…
Visiting the Amazon rain forest has been a dream of mine ever since I could read…The Amazon was a distant jungle filled with colorful parrots, dangerous snakes and enormous spiders.
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The dramatic scenery of Nusa Penida…
Bali is the most popular destination in Indonesia, but over time it has become very commercialized, which has led many travellers to consider nearby alternative […]
Barefoot Manta, Fiji…
After spending a couple of days on the island of Nacula in village Homestays, we moved on to the beautiful Barefoot Manta resort, which occupies […]
Our trip to Moalboal, Cebu and its amazing Sardine Run
After our great experience swimming with the turtles around Apo Island, we decided to take a ferry across to Cebu so that we could spend […]
The spectacular Rice Terraces of Banaue and Batad – and the hanging coffins of Sagada…
When I first visited the Philippines about 20 years ago, I travelled to the famous rice terraces of Banaue on a local bus which ended […]
El Nido – Paradise can get too crowded
If you do a Google search for El Nido you’ll be met by hundreds of absolutely breathtaking photographs of the lagoons and beaches around El […]
Coron, Palawan – the last frontier for travellers….
Speak to any traveller who has spent time in Philippines or to local Filipino’s, and their eyes tend to glaze over when you mention Palawan, […]
Yogyakarta and Beautiful Borobudur
When visiting Java there are several places that always come up when chatting to fellow travellers as ‘not-to-be-missed’ destinations. Borobudur temple is one of those […]
Orangutans of Kalimantan…
So this month I got to fulfill a lifelong dream I have had since I was a teenager. A good friend of the family used […]
100 days of Travelling
It’s hard to believe that we have already spent 100 days travelling through South East Asia since our departure from Cape Town on 24 August […]