Inspiring.Unforgiving.Memorable After an early start from Aunsuncion, I hopped on a local bus heading to the sprawling mercado cuatro where seemingly a thousand buses pass every minute. I managed to flag down my next hourly bus to the border, walk over the frontier bridge, gather my exit and entry stamps just in time to hop […]
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Drinking, smoking and trekking in the sanctuary that is the Blue Mountains.
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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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Bloody.Hard.Work As we hadn’t done any real physical exertion for a while and after the deep disappointment of not being able to climb mount Kinabalu we set our sights on climbing the volcanic summit of Mount Rinjani rising up 3700m from the turquoise waters on the island of Lombok. To set ourselves a challenge
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Soaring.Culinary.Damp We flew into a rather grey Krabi and the umbrella we’d hauled back from Myanmar was called into immediate action. Rainfall is becoming less novel for us as time goes on, at one point we had gone five or six months without a single drop but as the seasons change the inevitable deluges have
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