Discovering the secrets of the Terracotta Army
In 1974 a poor farmer named Mr. Yang was digging a new well in his field when a head…
Myanmar jade market
We took a short flight in a small plane from Yangon, met with Wyn our new guide and were…
Climbing Ayers Rock?
Ayers Rock and Uluru, it has two names. In 1993, a dual naming policy was adopted that allowed official…
Exploring the Hawaiian island of Kauai
Kauai is the fourth largest and oldest of the Hawaiian Islands. Known as ‘The Garden Isle’ it has a…
Hiking the Nakasendo Trail and staying at a Japanese ryokan
We had been planning our once-in-a-lifetime adventure for nearly a year; 10 months travel around the world visiting 15…
Why you should visit Phnom Penh prison and killing fields
We travelled the world visiting 15 countries in 10 months but nothing could have prepared us for the horror…
Discovering Bagan, Mayanmar
On our journey to pick up the boat at Pakkoku taking us down the Irrawaddy river to Bagan, I…
Discover Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca was a ‘must-see’ destination on our world tour of 15 countries in 10 months. But we found…
Discovering the Amazon in Peru
Our world tour of 15 countries in 10 months included 52 flights one of which was from Cusco to Puerto…
5 reasons to discover the beautiful Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest in the world, some parts of it have never seen rain….
Christmas in Australia – not all barbies, beer and beaches
I’m not entirely sure the Australians quite get Christmas, at least not the way the British do. There are…
Discover the most sacred place in Japan
The last of the 15 countries we visited in our 10 month adventure was Japan and specifically the village…
Discover where the rainforest meets the Great Barrier Reef
If you drive south from Port Douglas, Australia, hugging the coast on the Captain Cook Highway towards Cairns, you…
The best cruise around the Fiji islands
Neither of us had been on a cruise before, we had always been put off by the thousands of…
6 of the best temples to visit at Siem Reap, Cambodia
Siem Reap literally translates to ‘Siam Defeated’, Siam being the former name of Thailand. It is the gateway to…
15 reasons to visit the Galápagos Islands
The Galapagos are 16 volcanic islands and hundreds of islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean straddling the…
