Following a gruelling 14hr journey from Phi Phi by ferry to Krabi, minibus to Surat Thani and another much delayed ferry, we have finally arrived in Koh Phan Ngan ahead of the masses to secure accom prior to the Full Moon Party on 6th December. To be honest we’re not entirely sure its a full Read More »
We decided to spend our first week touring Fiji’s main island, Viti Levu, with the Feejee Experience (sister company to the good old Kiwi Experience). Aboard the familiar green bus we set about getting to know our fellow travellers and the crew – comprising of our guide Té, the driver Arvin, 5 trainee guides, and Read More »
So we left Bangkok on Thursday and we couldn’t get out of there fast enough. One night was definetely enough with being bombarded by tuk tuk drivers who didn’t speak any english and just wanted to take you places that you didn’t want to go. Our favourite word there was no thank you but even Read More »
So we headed back north on thursday evening, but before I leave Queenstown, I forgot to mention that Amy P., friend from New York city (no, she’s not my girlfriend) and travel partner met the man of her dreams Thursday night. His name is Taylor, and at the moment he was traveling the world for Read More »
I have to admit I was completely spoilt rotten by my lovely boyfriend, taking me to such a gorgeous place. The views over the Indian Ocean were absolutely the best I have ever seen. I really regret not taking photos, as the days I decided to go out with my camera it suddenly became overcast. Read More »
On Saturday we woke up in the town of Osorno ready to drive several hours to the island of Chiloe. Unfortunately someone on the trip (We´ll just say that his initials are SJ) left the dome light on in the car all night. The car wouldn’t start and we tried pushing it down a hill Read More »
Booked our longtail boat again for a mornings visit to Phi Phi Ley which was the location for the film ‘The Beach’. We had heard lots of negative press about the Hollywood bods coming to the island and basically trashing it. We have however heard that they actually cleaned the island up and removed 4 Read More »
Another early wake up call in Zirovnica, except this time it wasn’t Papa Damien…it was Rachel Verbeek, my travelling partner from Denver who I met in Bulgaria the previous year and travelled to South America with last December. She had quite the long flight / train from Denver to this small town in northwestern Slovenia, Read More »
August 08 So this morning we got up and it was quite cloudy still from last night’s rain. We hopped in a cab to take us to the Hertz rental car place. The driver drove extremely fast, and at one point I swear he was gunning for some old lady crossing the street. When we Read More »
In mid-August 1998, the inhabitants of Aitape on the north coast of Papua New Guinea felt a mild tremor underneath their feet. Thinking nothing more of it, they carried on with what they were doing. 20 minutes later, the same people were scrambling for cover as a 10-metre high wall of water headed towards them. Read More »
