During our time in Cairns we rented a car to explore and get the most out of our time there. We’ve already talked about the Rock Wallabies of Granite Gorge, Babinda Boulders and the Lake Circuit in previous posts. This is our last post in this series about the Atherton Tablelands Waterfall Circuit. We’d decided we wanted to see the […]
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We heard about Babinda Boulders from our Helpx hosts as well as a few places online when looking up things to do in Cairns. Since we had rented a car for a few days we put them on the itinerary. On our second day with the car we drove south from Cairns to the Babinda Boulders and […]
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While staying in Cairns we hired a car for 3 days to explore far North Queensland. We couldn’t believe how much there was to see so close to Cairns! One of our favourite spots was Granite Gorge in the Atherton Tablelands. Here you can interact with and feed wild Mareeba Rock Wallabies that are endemic to […]
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The Great Barrier Reef was at the top of our list of things to do in Australia. We’ve been slowly working our way up the East coast from Melbourne and having finally arrived in Cairns we got straight onto researching the best way to visit the Reef. Choosing a Great Barrier Reef Tour There are […]
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We’d heard some good things about Newcastle during our time in Australia and we were lucky enough to get a HelpX placement there whilst making our way up the East Coast of NSW. Having arranged everything with our lovely host Heather we caught the train from Sydney (where we’d been enjoying a week relaxing in Manly) […]
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Looking for things to do in Kuala Lumpur? Here’s our list of the top 5 things to do while you’re there. 1. Visit the Petronas Twin Towers Bet you didn’t see that coming! Seriously though the towers are pretty amazing, especially at night when they’re lit up. There’s no need to pay to go up […]
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We started our trail in Thailand and have since met many travellers who have done the same. In this post we review each of the places we stayed. We are budget travellers but we try to get the best we can for our money, we haven’t yet shared a dorm since they don’t offer good value […]
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We stayed in Manly, NSW for one week in February 2015. It was one of our favourite places in Australia so far. I thought I’d write a little bit about why we enjoyed our stay here so much, what you can do if you’re here and why it’s a great base to explore Sydney and […]
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We (embarrassingly) got caught out by the Bangkok tuk tuk scam twice when we first arrived in Bangkok. It seems that almost all first time travellers get caught out on this one though so perhaps we shouldn’t feel too bad.
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Our 4 nights in Bangkok were the very beginning of our travels. We’d roughly planned our way through Thailand and the obvious place to start was in the capital, I’m not sure we were quite prepared for the culture shock of Bangkok though! Accommodation There is a huge range of accommodation available in Bangkok, ranging […]
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