It’s been a while since the last post. We’ve been largely incommunicado. We’ve been on a boat, or underwater. We arrived at Cebu airport after a couple of hops to KL, then onto the Philippines. We taxi’d to our hotel (opting, after queuing for a white cab for 45 minutes, to pay the extra for … Continue reading Philippines week 1 – underwater
It’s 5 days later, and we’re in Indonesia. Transferring from Bali, we caught a domestic flight to Labuan Bajo, a small fishing town on west of the Island of Flores, in the Nusa Tenggara region of Indonesia. This would be our base for the next few days as we explore Komodo National Park, the land … Continue reading Indonesia… Here be dragons
It’s our 10 year wedding anniversary. We were due to fly into Bangkok and stay at an airport hotel, but we decided to celebrate, and so binned the airport hotel and booked into a Marriott in central Bangkok. We arrived at 2pm and went out for an excellent Thai lunch. A swim in the hotel … Continue reading Big trouble in little Thailand
Bhutan is a small country that most would struggle to place on a map. Sandwiched between Tibet, India, Nepal and Bangladesh it is nestled in the Himalayas. With only 800,000 inhabitants, it is sparsely populated and growing at a very ponderous 2% per year. Bhutan was named by the British, meaning ‘High Land’ (or locally … Continue reading Bhutan – Days 1-4
The Land of the Thunder Dragon. That’s a pretty bloody awesome tag line for any country. It’s also the land where the government constitutionally operates to maximise Gross National Happiness. Before coming to Bhutan, we had a feeling we’d like it. However, it started off a bit rocky. We arrived at Kathmandu airport (another hairy, … Continue reading Bhutan – Arrival
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