Hooker Valley Track
2020年1月9日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
In the Mount Cook national park we completed the Hooker Valley track which was full of snow-capped mountains and icebergs! I'd never seen an iceberg before. We stayed the night in the fun named townもっと詳しく
Mt Cook to Christchurch
2020年1月10日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Shortly after leaving Twizel, we stopped at Tekapo. The small town is popular with visitors and has a lake (of course), tiny church, a statue to dogs and an observatory with a nice cafe. We carried onもっと詳しく
Akaroa
2020年1月11日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Forty minutes west of Christchurch is the little French town of Akaroa. The French landed here long ago and it continues to have French road names, a French food market and colourful houses. Akaroa isもっと詳しく
Morning walking tour of Christchurch
2020年1月12日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
For our final full day in NZ we took a walking tour of Christchurch. It was a really emotive tour and we learnt a lot about the earthquakes and aftershocks which wrecked the city in 2011. It wasもっと詳しく
Afternoon in Christchurch
2020年1月12日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
The city’s street art scene also flourished after the earthquake as the residents utilised empty or damaged buildings. The city still runs the cute and traditional cable cars which brighten up theもっと詳しく
New Zealand food & drink
2020年1月12日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Exploring Chiang Mai
2020年1月14日, タイ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
After hearing that the city was a peaceful alternative to Bangkok, I was surprised to find it was so large, with sprawling suburbs, full of traffic and that the centre was chocked full of low-riseもっと詳しく
Doi Inthanon National Park
2020年1月15日, タイ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Took a tour to the Chiang Mai countryside. First up is Thailand's highest point, which you get to via a nature trail led by someone from the local indigenous tribes. From the top, the views stretchもっと詳しく
Hiking the Monk's Trail
2020年1月16日, タイ ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Caught a motorbike taxi to the bottom of the Monk's trail, just on the edge of the city. From here you can walk to the highly popular Doi Suthep Temple. You walk up through the forest and suddenlyもっと詳しく
White Temple, Chiang Rai
2020年1月17日, タイ ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Today I start the three-day journey to Luang Prabang in Laos. The tour company picked our little group of 10 up from Chiang Mai and we started the long drive to the border town of Chiang Khong. Theもっと詳しく
Laos
2020年1月18日, タイ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Today our little troupe went the short distance to the boarder, got ourselves stamped out, hopped on the bus over the Thai-Laos friendship bridge, paid for our visas, which took a lot of stamps andもっと詳しく
Slow Boat - Day 2
2020年1月19日, ラオス ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
We spent the night in Pak Beng, essentially a giant service station for the slow boat guests. Had a room to myself and a fun night playing games in the bar with fellow passengers. I woke up early, asもっと詳しく
Luang Prabang
2020年1月20日, ラオス ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
The whole city is a UNESCO site and despite being touristy it has charm with cute French inspired buildings, the huge riverside, daytime wet market, lots of handicraft gift shops, bakeries and manyもっと詳しく
Kuang Si Falls
2020年1月21日, ラオス ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
This morning I went to the Royal Palace (no photos allowed); it was surprisingly small but it was built around a courtyard and the throne room is completed in the same mosaic style as yesterday'sもっと詳しく
Nong Khiaw
2020年1月22日, ラオス ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Today I took the minibus with one of the girls from the slow boat three hours north to the countryside retreat of Nong Khiaw. It's a tiny town with plenty of hiking opportunities and sitting by theもっと詳しく
Trek & village homestay - Day 1
2020年1月23日, ラオス ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
I joined a couple and our slightly condescending tour guide for a two-day experience in the countryside with an overnight stay in a local Hmong village. On the first day we hiked all day throughもっと詳しく
Muang Ngow & Kayaking - Day 2
2020年1月24日, ラオス ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
After a hearty breakfast in the village we waved all the children goodbye and left for our hours hike to the river. On the riverbank there was a boat waiting to take us along the river surrounded byもっと詳しく
Sleeping women viewpoint
2020年1月25日, ラオス ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Got up early while it was still relatively cool and hiked to my second viewpoint. I had read about it online, but everyone had failed to mention that it was less of a hike and more of aもっと詳しく
Weaving
2020年1月26日, ラオス ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Had a great day at Ban Lue Handicrafts Center on the outskirts of Nong Khiaw. I spent the whole day with them learning about the process of creating cotton yarn from the plant and then weaving my ownもっと詳しく
Phra Khoa Viewpoint
2020年1月27日, ラオス ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
My last morning in Nong Khiaw, and just time to fit in another hike, although it almost didn't happen due to the giant water buffalo which blocked my path and wouldn't move. Being the only person onもっと詳しく
Morning at the Plain of Jars
2020年1月29日, ラオス ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
The Plain of Jars is spread out over three main sites but there are fields of them all over the region, the sites are protected by UNESCO, and no one really knows why they are there. I went on a tourもっと詳しく
Afternoon at the Plain of Jars
2020年1月29日, ラオス ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
We spend the afternoon going around the three sites and Mr Kong encourages us to take fun photos and give our views on why they are there. There were a few tourists at Site 1 but we practically hadもっと詳しく
Vang Vieng - Epic bike ride
2020年1月30日, ラオス ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
I met Dakota at the hostel and we went on an unexpectedly torturous bike ride. I had read that you could cycle to the blue lagoons but we decided to visit a further, better lagoon and then made aもっと詳しく
Tubing
2020年1月31日, ラオス ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
After a morning lazing by the pool, we spent the afternoon completing "the" activity of Vang Vieng, tubing. This is essentially a bar crawl along the river. The company dropped us at the edge of theもっと詳しく
The Red Bridge
2020年2月1日, ラオス ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Vang Vieng has its own Instagram spot, the Red Bridge. It's a short walk from the town and actually quite a short bridge but still we got our photos. On the other side of the bridge is a park withもっと詳しく