USA | Sunday, 7 Aug 2011 | Views [1416]
Rounding the corner amid a tangle of
motorbikes, tour buses, taxis, tuk-tuks, dogs, elephants and pony carts, I
suppressed a sob as I saw the first towers of Angkor Wat. As a professed New World
ruins freak, seeing Cambodia's
12th-century ... Read more >
Tags: cambodia, ruins
USA | Sunday, 7 Aug 2011 | Views [1206]
THE JOURNEY OVER
Basically, “You can’t get
there from here” easily. So we had to fly United to Tokyo
then spend a day in Singapore
then get on an Indonesian carrier for the final leg to Denpasar. Thankfully,
this two-day ordeal ... Read more >
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NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 6 Aug 2011 | Views [1113]
PUNAKAIKI-PAPAROA NP We had originally planned to
visit a friend who spends every February in her North Island New Zealand house, but she didn’t go there this year. Nevertheless,
we decided to go ahead with our plans to visit ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 6 Aug 2011 | Views [1879]
This hiking destination was
high on our must-do-before-we-get-too-decrepit list. The two treks we took are on
every list of the top 20 best hikes of the world. The trails were extremely well-marked
and easily accessible by bus, so there ... Read more >