Summary The high trail of the Tiger Leap Gorge in Yunnan is easily one of China’s best hikes, and a must do for anyone visiting Yunnan. The problem is timing: although the hike is only 25km, almost all itineraries require two days because they get you to the start point of the hike, Qiaotou (桥头), […]
Ethical Travel
TripAdvisor’s recent announcement that it will no longer sell tickets to attractions that involve close contact with wild animals via it’s partner site Viator once again raises the issue of ethical travel and holidays. As a result we wanted to think about some of the questions we might consider when planning a holiday. We all […]
Budapest in August
One good way of figuring out when to go on a mini break to a country is to check when their big national holiday is (the equivalent of 4th of July in the US). They are guaranteed to have lots of interesting events on around that time. Budapest, Hungary is an underrated city destination in […]
Malaysian Roadtrip – Trip Report of our 1,400km drive
Trip report: Peninsula Malaysia Road Trip As a recent #firstworldproblem, I had an expiring Amex companion voucher I needed to use and a stack of Avois points. The only interesting place we could find redemption availability for was Malaysia, so I booked the tickets for DH and I to fly out to KL. Next problem: what […]
Top 3 secret travel destinations (2016)
Destination Selection I thought I’d get started with a crowd-pleaser: my current top 3 world travel secret destinations list. By secret I mean places and locations that are phenomenal destinations, but that are generally unknown. I love diving in the Maldives, but it’s hardly a secret that Maldives diving is excellent: you don’t need my blog to tell […]