Hoi An…Hello, where you from?
This is my 3rd day in Hoi An, a small town in the centre of Vietnam and a stone’s throw away from the so-called China Beach, a 30km stretch of […]
Halong – Bay of the descending dragon
Ha means coming down and Long means dragon in the Vietnamese language. So in other words…the descending dragon. The legend goes that the dragon came down to help save the […]
Trekking through luscious rice paddies…Sapa
This morning I woke up to the sound of a bubbling brook, a cock singing it’s morning tune and perhaps a slight knocking in my head from the rice wine […]
Hanoi…the city that doesn’t stop
It’s taken me a while to sit down and write this blog. My senses were annihilated from the very first step out of the airport cab and on to the […]
A physio, a chiro and a psychologist travel to Vietnam
Sounds like the start of a joke and in the first 2 days it was…Not the haha funny kind of joke but rather the oh my word I can’t believe […]
Southern night sky – a Durbanite in the Karoo
What do the cold and the sparkling African sky have in common? Why Sutherland in the Northern Cape of course. Home to SALT (South African Large Telescope) and if the […]
Weighing it up – what to pack on a long trip to South America.
In one of my first posts I mentioned that I was planning for this trip and it was more than usual. I wasn’t sure if all the planning was worth […]
Highly recommended
Our criteria for hostels were as follows – must have free wifi, computers with internet, breakfast included, close to what we want to see/do. Mama Simona Hostel in Cusco, Peru. […]
The sum of this equation
I set out on this trip with the hope of capturing the essence of South America and satisfying a lifelong dream of visiting it. A big challenge considering the limited […]
Be a local – Ubatuba
It’s our last few days in Brazil and after 5 crazy weeks of travel its time to relax. There are thousands of beachside towns to choose from. Some for the […]