ECUADOR | Sunday, 7 Jun 2009 | Views [494]
After a long delay at Cusco airport and an interminable ten hour wait at Lima airport, we finally boarded our flight to Quito, Ecuador. Unfortunately our arranged pick-up wasn´t there, which we weren´t too thrilled about seeing as it was 3am and Quito ... Read more >
PERU | Tuesday, 2 Jun 2009 | Views [480]
Cusco is 3,500 km above sea level and a great place to prepare your body for the dizzy heights of the Inca Trail. We had allowed ourselves four days to acclimatise, which was just as well. By this time I had a really bad back and was wondering if I was ... Read more >
PERU | Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Views [438]
Even though it only felt like five minutes ago that we`d embarked from a plane, after two nights in Lima it was time to catch a flight to Arequipa, to begin our acclimatisation to being at altitude. Arequipa is a beautiful little town, its colonial ... Read more >
PERU | Saturday, 23 May 2009 | Views [525]
Getting from Auckland, New Zealand to Lima in Peru was an endurance test that even the most hardened marathon runner would have struggled with. It started with an eight hour overnight flight to LA. We then had ten hours to wait in LA for a flight to ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 18 May 2009 | Views [411]
Our penultimate stop in the campervan was Rotorua. A popular tourist spot, the town is, quite literally, a hotbed of geo-thermal activity. Clouds of steam billow from drains in the road and over people's garden fences and there is a lingering small of ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 16 May 2009 | Views [428]
We drove our campervan onto the ferry from Picton to Wellington bright and early. It took a few hours to cross the picturesque Malborough Sounds and then we were in the capital city of New Zealand. A city that's not much bigger than Brighton, it didn't ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 16 May 2009 | Views [384]
Abel Tasman National Park, at the tip of the South Island, is like a tropical island. You can only reach the outer limits by car and the rest has to be navigated on foot or by water taxi. It comprises of a series of gorgeous sandy beaches with calm, ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 9 May 2009 | Views [381]
The weather took a turn for the worst as we headed north again, to the tourist hub of Queenstown. The rain was pretty relentless for the couple of days we were there. Last time I had been to Queenstown, we had wanted to do The Luge down this mountain-... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 2 May 2009 | Views [432]
There was quite a significant drop in temperature from Brisbane to Christchurch in New Zealand, and the grey sky was very reminiscent of our own sunny country. After spending a night in quite a nice hostel, we stayed a couple of days with a kiwi girl ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 26 Apr 2009 | Views [405]
After an overnight bus journey from Melbourne, we arrived in Sydney bright and early and checked into a backpackers. We were starting to get really weary of hostel life at this stage (at the last one we stayed at in Melbourne we shared a room with a ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 25 Apr 2009 | Views [387] | Comments [1]
After flying into Melbourne we joined my parents in a lovely serviced apartment in the city centre for a spot of luxury. We spent a very enjoyable (but wet) few days exploring some of the sights of Melbourne and the surrounding area, catching up with ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 24 Apr 2009 | Views [385]
The furthest North we travelled was a tiny town called Coral Bay. The small collection of buildings by the beach are all, in some way, there to meet the basic needs of visitors to the beautiful bay. The main attraction, apart from the glorious sunshine, ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 11 Apr 2009 | Views [572] | Comments [1]
The first stop heading North from Perth was a little town called Cervantes, the nearest place to Nambung National Park, home to the famous 'Pinnacles'. The Pinnacles are loads of limestone columns on a sandy plain, which were originally formed underground ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 4 Apr 2009 | Views [408]
We flew into Perth on the West Coast of Australia and spent the first couple of nights in backpacker dorms, whilst establishing that it was a pretty bland city. So, we secured ourselves a hired campervan and made a swift exit. Well, actually we had to ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Tuesday, 31 Mar 2009 | Views [540] | Comments [2]
We travelled on to Siem Reap, a touristy but lively little town with a lot of great places to eat. Everyone is there for the same thing - the ancient temples of Angkor - and they don't disappoint. At 5am in pitch black we were picked up by our tuk-tuk ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Tuesday, 24 Mar 2009 | Views [496]
The beginning of our time in Cambodia was a disaster. We arrived at our hotel as arranged by the tour company, described as the 'Sinh Cafe Hotel' by all who worked there. After checking in we took a tuk-tuk into town (of course our 'free' night's accommodation ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 | Views [489]
The bus to Ho Chi Minh (formerly Saigon) was, thankfully, uneventful and we arrived, found a room and had just enough time to arrange a 3 day tour through the Mekong Delta for the next day. We were getting the boat across the border to Cambodia so we ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Monday, 23 Feb 2009 | Views [2618] | Comments [1]
There's really nothing to say about the town of Quy Nhon, except that we shouldn't have bothered going there. In an attempt to get off the tourist trail, we plumped for the apparently up-and-coming beach resort. After being the only ones dropped off ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Monday, 23 Feb 2009 | Views [550]
Hoi An reminded me a lot of lovely Luang Prabang in Laos. The old town is a collection of pretty, narrow streets with colourful old French buildings. There are nice cafes and bustling markets and a million places to get hand-made clothes. We hired bikes ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Friday, 6 Feb 2009 | Views [464]
From Hanoi, we caught the overnight train to Hue(pronounced 'Hway')on the central coast of Vietnam. On 'soft sleeper' benches which were quite comfortable, it was a fairly pleasant journey. We shared our cabin with a nice Canadian couple. The guy was ... Read more >
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