It started with an early rise to drive to Semenggoh Wildlife Centre where semi-wild orang utans are fed and assisted with their rehabilitation. The first feeding of the day is 9am and we were very lucky to arrive early and see two orang utans who had come early to feed at a separate platform. That [...]
…Borneo and not only that, I’m in the 5-star Damai Puri Resort & Spa… my Borneo adventure starts now! After taking the morning to chill, I spent my afternoon getting to grips with Sarawak’s biggest draw-card – its indigenous people. With 25 different ethnic groups, Sarawak is a culturally diverse state and almost immediately I [...]
If you think Nepal only has the mighty Himalayas, you are under-estimating the place – take at least 10 days to see Kathmandu, Pokhara and Chitwan National Park – the home of one-horned rhino and one of the most fascinating places. One morning I woke up early, and with a cup of tea in my hand, [...]
Returning from Borneo, I have to share my amazing dive experience around the stunning Sipadan Island on Borneo’s east coast. Considered one of the world’s top ten dive sites I knew that my time diving was going to be good but I didn’t expect it to be the best I have ever done – and [...]
Ever gone on your holiday and thought how it would be so much nicer if there were no other tourists there? Well that is pretty much what you get if you journey to North Korea! They only let around 1000 Western tourists in each year and these tend to be around April, August, September and [...]
The smell of roasted sugar-almonds, spices and mulled wine floating through Munich’s main square, the Marienplatz, is enough to keep a Monkey warm from the December cold descending over the hundreds of wooden stalls that make up the enchanting Christmas markets throughout December. First stop to fit in with the Bavarians: find myself a nice [...]
I have just got back from an incredible journey to the peak of Asia’s highest mountain, Mt Kinabalu on the island of Borneo. I had heard that the summit was considered a relatively straight forward climb (considering the height of 4095m) so I hopped to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah’s capital, and boarded my bus to Kinabalu [...]
Who knew that China’s Silk Road could be so exciting, varied and cultured? When in China you expect to see Chinese people (1.3 billion of ‘em) but once we started our journey crossing from east to west, the people and their religions and culture drastically changed. First up we experienced the tiny Tibetan town of Xiahe, [...]
Like a forgotten civilization, detached from the rest of the world, I found Sri Lanka a haven, empty of tourists and with so much to discover – travelling the completely flat and tropical lowlands (including ‘toddy tappers’ and ‘stilt fishermen’) to discovering lonely temples and palace ruins in the jungles to the amazing heights of [...]
When in Monteverde, the must do activity is the Sky Trek – a complex of cables, trails and platforms, built inside the cloud forest. The platforms are situated at different levels, giving you a bird’s eye view of the forest, as you slide from tree to tree. This is not for the faint hearted or those who are [...]