Our beautiful home state of Western Australia is the perfect place for a road trip. Long weekends – a weekend with a public holiday held on the Monday – are also the perfect time to plan a getaway. With no shortage of places to see, the hardest decision is where to go! Prior to leaving on our around the world… Read more →
Half a year… say what?! It’s absolute madness to think we’ve been away now for half a year. It feels like just yesterday that we left for our flight to Sumatra and here we are six months later, in a little fishing town on the coast of Kerala in India. The last month of travel has been full on. Whilst… Read more →
Munnar (pronounced ‘Moon-are’) is a hill station located 1600 metres above sea level in the Western Ghats range of mountains in Kerala, India. It’s also Southern India’s largest tea-growing region – with over 50 000 hectares of its hilly terrain covered in tea plantations. Munnar was not part of our original plans for India – in fact, we hadn’t even… Read more →
A few days ago we shared with you our experience of heading out on a camel safari in India’s Thar Desert – an activity we were looking forward to in our travels through India – and how very disappointed we were. It did not live up to our expectations in any way – you can read our original summary here.… Read more →
The close second on our Indian bucket list after visiting the Taj Mahal was a camel safari into the desert. Sand dunes stretching as far as the eye could see. Riding camels in the middle of nowhere, nothing but us and a guide. Watching the sun set, colours of orange, pink and purple filling both the sky and the silence.… Read more →
Today, we set off on our biggest adventure to date – we’re headed to India! Ancient forts, saris, chai tea, camels, marketplaces, bustling cities, cows and curry – we’re so excited to be exploring a country that so many others leave off the list – but that’s not to say we don’t have our own reservations. We always knew India… Read more →
Has it really been three months already?! Our travels are flying by yet at the same time it feels as though we have been away forever. The last month definitely feels as though it’s been the longest – we’ve covered so much more ground compared to our other trips and at a slower pace so that we are really getting… Read more →
The tropical climate in Malaysia has given us grief since we first arrived. Whilst we have endeavoured to not let it slow us down, we’ve found that we have been seeking out the icy refuge of an air-conditioned shopping mall more often than any other trip so far! It’s one of the reasons we were so looking forward to our trip… Read more →
Our second month on the road has been much less dramatic than the first – we’ve really started to find our groove and have visited some amazing, one of a kind destinations. There are probably three phrases I would use to summarise this month – aching muscles, looooooong travel days and dodgy hotel rooms. Here’s the low down on what’s… Read more →
Kawah Ijen was never part of our original travel plans – simply because we hadn’t heard of it. But once we did learn of its existence – ‘it’ being the largest acidic crater lake in the world, of turquoise colour and that shoots ‘blue flames’ at night – well, we had to go! Getting there was our first hurdle. We… Read more →
