This week's travel photo is of some historic buildings at The Rocks in Sydney, Australia. The Rocks is a beautiful area right on Sydney Harbour located between Circular Quay and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The 19th century warehouse buildings have been beautifully preserved, and this area is lovely to walk around and enjoy a meal [...]
This is the fifth and final part of my Mount Kilimanjaro Climb. If you missed part 4, you can read it here. I awoke suddenly from a restless sleep. It was pitch black in my tent as I fumbled around in my sleeping bag to find my phone. Sleepily, I turned it on and squinted [...]
Sydney is without a doubt the most famous city in Australia, and possibly the most beautiful. With it's historic old buildings and monuments, along with a beautiful harbour setting, Sydney is a city that I just hadn't spent enough time exploring. So when Wimdu contacted me and asked if I would be interested in trying [...]
Ho Phra Keo Wat Phra Keaw Buddhist temple in Vientiane, Laos This week's travel photo is of Ho Phra Keo - a Buddhist temple in Vientiane, Laos that dates back to 1565. The temple has an interesting history, most famous for once housing the Emerald Buddha (now located in Wat Phra Kaew at [...]
I talk a lot about Italy on this blog, but that's for a very good reason...I absolutely love the country! Travelling to Italy with my wife for our honeymoon in 2010 is one of the greatest trips I have been on. We both fell in love with the country almost instantly. For a month, we [...]
This is part 4 of my Mount Kilimanjaro climb. If you missed part 3, you can read it here. I looked up at the huge imposing rock face as I slowly walked out of Barranco Camp. The shadow of the Great Barranco Wall kept the temperature low, the icy air numbing the exposed skin on [...]
This week's travel photo is of an elephant in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. This elephant walked right out across the road in front of us while on a morning game drive, before joining the rest of it's herd on the other side.
This is part 3 of my Mount Kilimanjaro climb. If you missed part 2, you can read it here. The sun warmed my face as I slowly walked across the barren volcanic landscape. The vast alpine desert of the Shira Plateau stretched out before me as I trekked up the rocky terrain of an old [...]
This week's travel photo is of Ao Chao Phao Beach on Koh Phangan, Thailand. Koh Phangan was the tropical island paradise that we were searching for in Southern Thailand, and we spent a lot of time on this beautiful beach, our bungalow located only a few meters to the left.
When I went on safari recently in Tanzania, one of the animals that I wanted to see most was the hippopotamus. I saw several in the Serengeti, but it was in Ngorongoro Crater that I really got my hippo fix. Not only did I see these fat noisy animals wallowing in the water, but I [...]
