Our Penang Island ‘insider guide’ explains the top things to do and see in Malaysia’s top holiday destination. A tropical island with exotic beaches, rain forests, beautiful temples, World Heritage Sites, and amazing food.
New Zealand’s West Coast has a diverse scenery, from the alps to the lakes, towns, rivers, wetlands, ocean, and native bush. This region on the South Island has some of the best hiking trails in the country.
Have you heard of Ubud in the highlands of Bali? The cultural heart of Indonesia’s favourite island, this mystical town lays in a perfect setting between rice fields and forests where streams cascade into sacred pools. These are the best places to visit in town and things to see on day trips nearby.
Alberta is one of Canada’s 10 provinces, a vast land of diverse landscapes where you can find snow-capped mountain peaks, rolling grasslands, dinosaur-bearing badlands, and unending boreal forests.
Discovering Sri Lanka: Kandy to Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage by train. It was time to continue our Sri Lanka adventure, to leave Kandy and head out to the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage by train. However, before leaving Sri Lanka’s beautiful lakeside city we had the chance to see a wedding! Colonial-style Hotel…
We crossed back over the River Sarawak on the little ferry to Kuching city, in time for a Santubong sunset cruise, that I’d booked at a waterfront tour office, to see the Sarawak lowlands and the wildlife of Santubong Peninsula. Santubong River Sunset Cruise from Kuching (Borneo) A minibus took…
The Ricote Valley is an authentic paradise in Murcia Province (Spain). Waterwheels on the riverbank, orchards with fruit trees in blossom, and a hotspring spa.
Discovering Manuel Antonio National Park (days 10 and 11 of our 15-day self-guided trip to Costa Rica). A convenient minibus shuttle took us from Monteverde Cloud Forests straight down to Manuel Antonio National Park on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, another must-see destination on our travels across one of the most…
Discovering Monte Verde Cloud Forest (days 2, 3 and 4 of our 15-day self-guided trip to Costa Rica). A day exploring Monte Verde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica. Visiting Monteverde Cloud Forest Arenal to Monteverde A convenient, and reasonably priced, shuttle service that I’d found, took us by minibus-boat-minibus to…
Discovering Arenal Volcano National Park (days 6 and 7 of our 15-day self-guided trip to Costa Rica).Arenal Volcano National Park. La Fortuna is a lively rural town in the foothills of Arenal Volcano surrounded by farming land and ranches. Arenal volcano was very active from 1995 right up till 2008.…
