Adventure and Cultural Travel with a Sustainable Twist
The Quilotoa Loop: an epic, multi-day trek deep in back-road country. Here, you’ll find breath-taking landscapes where the full beauty of mother nature is revealed. Small villages where life goes on as it has for hundreds of years. And a volcanic crater lake which locals swear has no bottom: the Continue Reading
If you hike the Quilotoa Loop counterclockwise, like we did, you’ll go from Isinlivi to Chugchilan. And from Chugchilan to Isinlivi if you do it clockwise, naturally. So after getting thoroughly lost two days before and enjoying a low-key day-trip the day after that, we finally hit the road again. Continue Reading
A series of birthdays January has been a month of birthdays in the family. Anthony (the 11-year-old)’s was on 10 January, Kevin (the 3-year-old)’s was on 16 January, and then mine a couple of days later. For Anthony’s birthday we had sopa de gallina (chicken soup) with freshly caught chicken, Continue Reading
As some of you may know, I’m currently taking a career break and am in South America to travel, improve my Spanish and do a little volunteering. The plan is to spend the bulk of my time in Ecuador but explore a little of Peru and Colombia as well. Why Continue Reading
After spending a week in Fiji, we were due to fly out on a Saturday and get home on Sunday. The day started out innocuously enough: Ziplining In the morning, we went ziplining with Zip Fiji – they have a few locations all over Fiji but this one in Nadi Continue Reading
I’m going to dive right in (pun totally intended): shark dives are a rather controversial topic. There are those who believe that we shouldn’t mess with the marine ecosystem or sharks’ natural behaviour by feeding them. In general, I wholeheartedly agree. But Fiji shark dives, for me, are an exception. Continue Reading
When I told a friend that I was visiting Fiji, she responded, “You sure visit a lot of exotic places!” Given that what we consider “exotic” is largely determined by where we live (Bali, for example, is a long weekend trip for us in Singapore), that’s certainly been the case Continue Reading
To round up this series on Naples and the surrounding area, I present to you: the churches that we saw (faith), what we ate (food) and, perhaps most importantly, a question: should you visit Naples? (Further thoughts.) I apologise if the alliteration is too much for you! Faith Like in Continue Reading
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) – e. e. cummings The story of how Bangkok captured my heart starts in San Francisco, November 2013: It was a cold and foggy night, like it always is in San Francisco. I was a few months into my Continue Reading