Amazing day in the Amazon!!!! After lunch at the lodge, we went out 3-6pm to the rescue site Monkey Island, where monkeys and other animals are set free after black market trades. There were woolly monkeys, squirrel monkey, capuchi monkeys too. We saw a 6ft Anaconda slithering to freedom after just arriving, whilst the other …
Amazon Adventure!
I've always been intrigued by the wild and scary Amazon I've seen on TV and read about, and the wildlife, tribes and flora - but the reality is different. It's serene, peaceful and the lifeblood of the people there, and there are animals and flora but so much morecpositive than I believed. And I fell in …
Camping in the Amazon!
When we camped, which is usually the last night of the tours - hadn't been sure whether to go or not, and Susan and Tom had returned to Iquitos the previous day - I didn't realise this and just thought I was going on a new jungle walk so didn't tale anything like extra clothes! …
Inca trail…
Well, Im on my way to Machu Picchu!! The Culmination perhaps of my year out to travel, this was the central point that the trip was built around! Wanting to get away from the world I wanted to go to the highest mountain in ... Peru ( the most distant place I could then imagine, …
Amazon again!
So on 21st April 2016 I returned to the beautiful, peaceful jungle! I went to the Maniti office next door to my hotel (purely accidental but very convenient!) for 8.45 am, for a 9am start. I found Rene was to be my guide this time and I was happy with that as he seemed nice …
Bored while travelling?! Why?
Why indeed, not something I ever expected. I thought that only happened at home in the past, but no, its here and now to! Why am I bored, even as some suggested here in New Zealand? Well, it seems a day to travel for just one day or part day tour, for me at least. …
Moments….
Moments come infrequently - even when travelling. This evening was a moment, frozen in time for me! Arriving in Te Anau at th e lake about 1.20 pm today, from the lovely alpine town of lively Queenstown, the beautiful glacial lake - 342 m around, 400 m deep and sitting 300 m above sea level …
Journeys end…or a beginning
"Its the journey that's important, not the destination" So true. Some of the best experiences have been the journeys between places I've stopped at. Over the mountains in Vang Vien in Loas, the train up to Chaing Mai, or the dusty roads of Kangaroo Island Australia, and the west coast trip to Greymouth here in …
A day in the life …of a traveller
Today is Thursday, 18 Feb and I got up in Napier, leaving at 9 am on the Naked Bus* to Wellington New Zealand and breakfasted in Hastings down the road half an hour. I am able to use my bargain Naked Passport bus ticket (30 trips between towns for just $246 or £123!) to get …
Ready Willing and Abel
Abel Tasman National Park that is, and more .. Abel Tasman was the Dutch explorer who discovered New Zealand snd Australia, but never claimed it or mapped it as much as Capt Cook. He named it New Zealand after Dutch Zeeland, and the sea between NZ and Australia is named after him. So is the …
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