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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Inspired by the weeks Travel Talk on Twitter (#ttot), I’ve put together a photo essay of the pets we’ve got to know on our travels. We both love animals and we’re always happy to meet people’s pets as we travel around. Usually we take a few photos of them too so here is a collection […]
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We visited Koh Tao near the very start of our travels and it’s still one of our favourite places. We initially only planned on 4 days here but couldn’t bring ourselves to leave and ended up staying for a full week! We caught the overnight train from Bangkok which was quite an experience in itself, especially […]
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Kuala Lumpur literally translates as “muddy estuary” which is a far cry from 21st Century Kuala Lumpur. We spent 10 days in KL and if I’m honest it wasn’t my favourite destination. Don’t get me wrong there are lots of positive things about Kuala Lumpur but I think 10 days split over two visits was […]
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The Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Sepilok was one of the destinations we most wanted to see while travelling through Asia. Lisa and I are both animal lovers and we couldn’t miss the opportunity to see these amazing animals and visit this important conservation centre. Getting there We did quite a lot of research before coming […]
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In preparation for our adventure I’ve picked up a couple of new toys (and sold a lot of stuff I didn’t need to finance them!) One of the first things I wanted was a decent camera, after all what’s the point of travelling half way around the world and not having some nice pictures to look back on once I’m done?
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