Zambia: Chimfunshi, Livingstone Botswana: Kasane, Chobe National Park, Nata, Rakops In Northern Zambia there are very few tourist attractions, but one we had been looking forward to was a visit […]
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From Lilongwe to Lake Malawi: “Chill, Man, Chill”
Malawi: Lilongwe, Monkey Bay & Cape Maclear Although Malawi is a pint sized country, its (relatively recent) capital Lilongwe still struggles to rise to the occasion. It has the feel […]
Lake Tranquillity v. City Gridlock
Zambia: Lake Kariba & Lusaka En route to Lusaka we made a detour to the western shores of Lake Kariba. Straddling the Zambian / Zimbabwean border this immense lake was […]
Hong Kong: Spend, spend, spend!
Our 10 hour bus journey from Yangshuo had turned into 14 hours and to add insult to injury we were told that the bus would not, after all, be able […]
Chongqing: Capitalism on steroids
If Chengdu is a mecca for malls, Chongqing is capitalism on steroids. As we have become accustomed to, the city is in the midst of a construction boom – the […]
Chengdu: Malls, Cinema & Hot Pot!
Having originally planned only a one night stop here before heading to Guilin via Chongqing, we immediately knew this would not be the case when we checked into the fantastic […]
Beijing: Our First Impressions of China
1,300,000,000 people are never going to be inconspicuous, but in China the presence of humankind is overwhelming. Not surprisingly, Beijing is no exception. Such is the scale of this city […]
Kathmandu: An assault on the senses
Evidently not many of the millions of tourist dollars that pour into Nepal every year get spent on infrastructure. The airport is chaotic, the roads are potholed, and littered with […]
Ulaanbaatar: A modern gateway to an ancient way of life
Touching down at Ulaanbaatar airport was not the way we had planned to arrive, but it did at least give a bird’s eye view of the vast mountainous plateau that […]
Nizhny Novgorod: & 3rd class train journey
Arriving in Nizhny Novgorod (NN) in the dark, we set about following the guidebooks instruction on taking tram No. 1 to the centre where we would, it said “be dropped […]
Moscow: Setting the scene
During our stay in Moscow, we visited many different places, instead of naming them all, I’ll share a few photos! RUSSIA!! GUM Shopping Centre Being artistic in GUM Shopping Centre […]