Tags: Indonesia, Sulawesi, Tana Toraja Death is not as final as you might think in Tana Toraja. After experiencing some of the customs and traditions of a Torajan funeral, we were about to learn about life after death and what happens to the bodies of the dead in this unique Indonesian culture. A traditional village in …
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Basking on the beach – the Gili Islands
Tags: Indonesia, Bali, Gili Air, Gili Islands, Gili Meno, Gili T, holiday, Indonesia, Lombok, photography, travel, travel blog, Travel tips, travelling, Wildlife When we’d first started planning our travels we had initially planned on heading from Australia straight to Singapore. It was an over-eager travel agent trying to get us to book flights with him …
Australia’s greatest rock star… Uluru
Tags: adventure, Australia, Ayres Rock, Camping, Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon, Olgas, Outback, Outdoors, Road trip, Scenery, travel, travel blog, Uluru, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park We’d decided before we even arrived in Alice Springs that we should definitely make the effort to visit Uluru (Ayres Rock) while we were so close to it, but we didn’t …
Life at an Australian cattle station
Tags: adventure, australia Life for us on a working cattle station was very structured and repetitive. Everyday we would be up ready to start feeding the livestock at 7am. First would be the poddy calves – these are calves that have been separated from their mothers – and they needed milk twice a day. They …
Buildings, Boulders and Birds: the Otago Region (again)
Tags: backpacking, Blue Penguin, Dunedin, Freedom Camping, Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand, Otago Peninsular, Penguin, Road trip, Round the World, travel, travel blog, Wildlife, Yellow Eyed Penguin After nipping into the Otago Region briefly to get from the West Coast into Fiordland, we’d planned to go back into it on our way back up north. Our …
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Mind over Splatter in Queenstown
Tags: adventure, blog, canyon swing, Freedom Camping, Puzzling World, Queenstown, Road trip, Round the World, Scenery, travel, travel blog, Wanaka On our first morning in the Otago region of New Zealand, we woke up to one of the most glorious sights we came across on our entire trip so far. Snowy peaks glittered in the …
The Wild West Coast
Tags: blog, Blue Pools, Buller Gorge Swingbridge, Fox Glacier, Franz Josef Glacier, Freedom Camping, Haast Past, Hokitika, New Zealand, Pancake Rocks, Road trip, Round the World, travel, West Coast We’d seen spectacular scenery, volcanic activity and beautiful beaches on our travels in New Zealand, but we were now entering the ‘Wild West’ – where the …
Getting wet and wild in Taupo
Tags : adventure, backpacking, Freedom Camping, Huka Falls, Jet boat, Lake Taupo, New Zealand, Nga Awa Purua rapids, Round the World, travel, Travel tips, Waikato River After moving on from Waitomo and Rotorua our next stop was the picturesque Lake Taupo – but we didn’t have a relaxing afternoon of fishing in mind… The calm …
Exploring Waitomo’s Lost World
Tags: abseil, adventure, backpacking, caves, caving, Freedom Camping, Lost World, New Zealand, Round the World, travel, Waitomo We thought it would be difficult to find somewhere that could top the experiences that we had in the Bay of Plenty, but Waitomo had something special in store for us. This place is famous for its caves …
Crossing through Narnia: The no-mans land between Argentina and Chile
Tags: Argentina, backpacker, backpacking, border crossing, Chile, Scenery, travel Now, all of our border crossings this far have been fairly easy. We get our stamp out of one country and walk the short distance to the next country for our new entry stamp and there’s little more to it. Our crossing over to Chile from …
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