Travel is amazing. It is exciting and different. You experience at the very least new food, new places and new people. Deeper, you gain a better understanding of different cultures, ethics and religion. It is an opportunity that not everyone has, it is important and we are grateful that we can do it. All of the above is true and none of us need reminding of this when we are travelling care-free and happy. But, Read more…
We have taken buses everywhere in South America so it was strange to sit at the airport in La Paz. It was like we were off on a little holiday! We landed in Rurrenabaque to heat, heat, heat. It’s such a cool little jungle town; most of the restaurants are BBQs and moto-taxis take everyone, everywhere. Sometimes whole families at once! We checked in for our tour the next day and took a motorised canoe Read more…
When we arrived in Bukit Lawang I was fighting with my conscience over whether this was a good decision. I desperately wanted to see orangutans and had decided to come here over Borneo since these orangutans were apparently fully wild, whereas Borneo still has feeding centres meaning the orangutans rely on humans a lot more. We had already fallen in to the Thailand elephant trap and visited a sanctuary which didn’t seen quite as honest Read more…
I need a Hero! Someone to remind me (after a year of travelling and eating out every. single. day!) how to cook. My boyfriend said it wasn’t a case of reminding but learning – cheeky! Either way, it was time for an Indonesian cookery class… enter Hero, the owner and head chef at Sunny’s Warung on lovely Gili Air. We had looked and looked for cooking classes in Indonesia that would suit our style. Most Read more…
One of the downsides of Peru is that it has had tourists for a long, long time so they are very clued up on about how to milk us! Because of this, one of the only real options to take to see Lake Titicaca is to go on a homestay programme and so we visited the islands on one of these overnight stays. We were picked up early morning, taken to the port and on Read more…
After leaving Santiago we headed to Valparaiso. We were expecting a ‘nice’, quiet, pretty seaside village. What we got was a very gritty, quirky town with amazing graffiti and a working port. It was fantastic; Chile’s version of Brighton and one of my favourite towns so far. Our favourite way to explore a new city; a free walking tour! We went with ‘Free Tour Valparaiso’, who meet at 10am / 3pm each day in Plaza Anibal Pinto. Our Read more…
Indonesia has been both one of my favourite and least favorite countries to travel in. The stunning scenery, beautiful traditions and hospitality make it a lovely place to holiday in. The unrelenting hawkers, sneaky rip offs and attitude that as we are from an ‘expensive’ country we need to pay up, make me hate it. There is definitely a vibe here that if you are from a first world country, you owe the people here Read more…
The Galapagos. To go or not to go? We spent days walking around Quito trying to find a good deal for the Galapagos cruises. Next, we considered going without a cruise. Were the day trips good enough? They amount to the almost the same as the budget cruises. Argh, so confusing! In the end we decided that the Galapagos wasn’t something you could scrimp on. We decided it wasn’t for us this time. Instead, we Read more…
We were on a mission in South America to scale as many mountains as possible! When we read about Rucu Pichincha, a 4680m high active volcano, and then realised how close it was to the city we were immediately heading that way. We read posts about how this hike could be dangerous due to muggings and even rapes en route. However, these reports are now from long ago and when we were there we never Read more…
On our first morning in Salento we are up and in a colectivo by 7.30am ready to hike Cocora Valley, which is one of the sights that both of us are most excited about in Colombia. The ‘Willy’s Jeeps’ are lined up in the square and there will be someone there filling the cars. Transport costs 4000 COP / £1 and takes about 45 mins. Colombians love a drink, and the evidence of this is Read more…
