This summer holiday Luke and I decided to take a road trip up the East Coast of South Africa and do a Cape Town to Coffee Bay Road Trip. I have such a passion for travel and my bucket list of foreign countries I want to visit seems to get longer each day. While I’ve […]
Camping in Tietiesbaai
Tiestiesbaai is a beach camp site up the West Coast. It’s located in Cape Columbine Nature Reserve just outside of Paternoster. It’s a really beautiful and special spot with stunning ocean views, the most amazing sunsets and really affordable camping options. Make a booking During the off-season there are no bookings taken and it is […]
Top 10 hikes in Cape Town
Discovering the mountains surrounding Cape Town has become one of my greatest delights in recent years. Here’s my guide to the top 10 hikes in Cape Town! For all my full hiking guides with trail descriptions, route guides, difficulty ratings and distance see my Cape Town Hiking Guides. Planning a trip to Cape Town and […]
Koh Phi Phi, Thailand
Koh Phi Phi was the best possible way to end off our incredible adventure through South East Asia. Catching a ferry from the mainland and sailing off to the turquoise waters of this Thai island paradise was the best decision we could have made. Koh Phi Phi is a tiny island in the Andaman Sea […]
Krabi, Thailand
After having all of our days in Siem Reap jam-packed with sight seeing, we were very happy to escape to the beach for a much-needed more relaxed pace. I was also so excited to be back in the land pad Thai’s and mango shakes but this time we’d be exploring Thailand’s gorgeous Andaman Coast. Nine […]
Siem Reap, Cambodia
After the most relaxing time on Koh Rong, we felt refreshed and ready to conquer our last major sight seeing spot for the trip: Angkor Wat, Siem Reap. We’d opted to save on a night’s accommodation and take the night bus from Sihanoukville to Siem Reap. We arrived with the lowest expectations and not much […]
Koh Rong & Sihanoukville, Cambodia
After over a month of intense inland and city travel we were absolutely over the moon to be heading to the coast. On our four hours turned six-hour bus ride down to Sihanoukville we watched as farmlands changed to palm trees, mango and banana plantations. Tuk tuks are the primary form of transport in Cambodia […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Sad to be saying farewell to Vietnam but excited to be experiencing a new country, we crossed the border into Vietnam. It was crazy to see the drastic change from lush rice paddies to much drier farmlands. In Vietnam and Thailand we hadn’t seen any beggars or much obvious poverty but in Cambodia there was […]
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
After quaint and gentle Hoi An, Ho Chi Minh City came as quite a shock to the system! We arrived in the pulsating heart of this loud, busy and crazy city. Our hostel turned out to be on Bui Vein walking street which is the equivalent of Bangkok’s Khao San road: full-on hustle bustle party […]
Hoi An, Vietnam
Everyone I’d spoken to that had already visited Vietnam had said that Hoi An was their absolute favourite. I knew that it would be a quaint old Japanese port with a wonderful ambiance but I honestly wasn’t expecting to be this blown away by the incredible Hoi An. After an extremely early wake and airport […]
Halong Bay, Vietnam
Ever since the beginning stages of planning this trip I have gazed upon photos of Halong Bay with longing eyes, my heart desperately desiring to travel there. The turquoise bay scattered with tropical jungle topped limestone islets is just so iconic and I was so over the moon that we would get to see it […]
Sapa, Vietnam
Sapa is a town wayyy up in the north of Vietnam. It’s only about an hour away from the Chinese border, making it quite different from the rest of Vietnam. Sapa was originally set up as a French hill station in 1922 but has since become Vietnam’s trekking centre. Located in the Hoang Lien mountains, […]