San Pancho & Maruata: Half the word away
Caves, Coves and Camping on the beach. Hasta pronto
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Backpacker
Asunción: My half million
Friendly.Expressive.Empty Asunción is a strange kind of capital, but then Paraguay is a strange sort of country. Arriving in after a comfortable six hour coach journey where I managed to snatch the top floor front seat on the coach, something akin to getting the front seats on the DLR. To make another London comparison, walking
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Encarnación: Banished from the land!
Driven.Derelict.Deranged I’d read some accounts of crossing the border into Paraguay as a little on the sketchy side from previous travellers’ accounts. With the city of Cuidad Del Este forming the gateway into the vast jungles of Paraguay. Known for its discounted goods, it’s a well established haven for Brazilian shoppers doing the equivalent of
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Iguazú: Immense forces
Puerto.Foz.Cataratas Two consecutive night buses via Montevideo and Concordia eventually saw me from the languid sands of Cabo Polonio to Misiones Province on the North Eastern frontier of Argentina. I had a day to kill in Concordia along the way which was surprisingly pleasant. In the most part spent sipping coffee and munching medialunas with
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Cabo Polonio: Festival spirit
What.A.Gem Sometimes exploring a new continent can be daunting, sometimes it can be exciting and sometimes it can absolute bliss, spending time in Cabo Polonio fits into the latter of these categories. This delightful little village on the Uruguayan Atlantic coast is accessed off the main road by an impressive off road camión ride through
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Colonia Del Sacramento: Sipping their Mate
Colonial jewel on the Rio De La Plata
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Buenos Aires: Unapologetically Classical
First visit to the good breeze
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Portland: No Hassle
Laid back Port Antonio and the beaches of Portland.
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The Blue Mountains: Vibrations from the valley
Drinking, smoking and trekking in the sanctuary that is the Blue Mountains.
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Santo Domingo: Bolivar, Churchill & Kennedy
Historical capital of the Latin Empire.
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Samana Peninsula: Hallowed Sands
Exploring the Samana peninsula
on the road, through the forests and on the beaches.
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Ile a Vache: A little gem
Paradise island off the south coast off Haiti with welcoming islanders and beautiful beaches.
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Port-au-Prince: Little middle ground
Dense.Seething.Raw Travelling to countries that conventional wisdom tells you are dangerous and should be avoided is always interesting. Mainly because it reinforces the opinion that conventional wisdom is usually wrong. Sometimes based on opinions of people that have not experienced the very thing they are expounding their wisdom on. Yes, Haiti is the poorest in
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Pico Duarte: Soaring Pines
First.Big.Climb This first post from the Dominican Republic is coming from it’s highest point, and the tallest peak in the Caribbean, Pico Duarte. So named after arguably the Dominican’s most famous founding father Juan Pablo Duarte (the mountain was previously named after it’s slightly less popular former leader Rafael Trujillo who selflessly named the mountain
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Singapore: Splitting our time
Modern.Organised.Culinary After a quick stop in the central market in Kuala Lumpur we headed for the south bound bus terminal and got aboard the first bus to Singapore. Things got a little fancier from here on in as our coach came complete with reclining massage chairs which we took full advantage of for the five
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Sumatra: Big Orange Beard
On arrival into Medan airport we planned on getting aboard a bus which would take us to the main bus terminal for the city and from there get onward transport to Bukit Lawang where we would fit in our last three days in Indonesia. As we made our way out of the airport we were
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Jakarta: Various States
Teeming.Congested.Growing Travelling to Jakarta I was expecting us to find a huge, sprawling dirty mega metropolis brimming over with people, cars and rubbish. Of course like many huge cities in Asia, it is all of those things as well as being the most densely populated city on one of the most densely populated islands in
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Yogyakarta: Shaping and hammering
Youthful.Cultured.Creative We returned back to planet earth after an incredible week or so spent amongst towering volcanoes, ashen grey plains, lunar craters and bubbling lakes of Easter Java. With a week left on our visa and still with Sumatra to see our time in the great cities of West Java was limited to just a
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Mt. Bromo: From Within
Another long and tiring journey later and we arrived into the town of Probolinggo. This is the town from which we would catch onward transport to the village from where we would climb Mt Bromo. Although we decided to overnight in Probolinggo as the three of us were very sleepy after being up for 20
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