Travel
Win a Copy of the Gap Year Guide Book 2010
Gap-year.com have been specialists in providing information for those considering gap years, year outs or career breaks for 18 years. They have used all their years of experience to pack the the latest edition of the Gap Year Guide Book is packed full of [...]
Puno to Cusco by Train
Travelling by train is always a highlight for me and Puno to Cusco is no exception. The train that passes straight through Puno market and then on to some lovely Peruvian scenery is highly recommended. The seats may be a [...]
Amazon Rainforest Trip Part 2
A guide can really make or break an excursion or tour and I don’t think I’ve ever had a guide as interesting and crazy as Marcus. He made what could have been a fairly disappointing trip into the Amazon [...]
Elephants, Snakes and Gibbons Galore at Khao Yai National Park in Thailand
Khao Yai National Park was Thailand’s first National park and covering an area of 2,168 square kilometers is the second largest and most popular National Park in Thailand. The park is made up mainly of evergreen forest and grasslands and [...]
Edora – A little Lord of the Ring Adventure
We didn’t go for any of the Lord of the Rings tours, instead, quite randomly on the way somewhere else decided to take our little rental car off on a little adventure in search of Edora from the Lord of the Rings, known as Mt. Somers to the locals.
Win an SLR camera & £500 worth of photobox vouchers
Rough Guides have put together a new online game to tie-in with their latest publication- Earthbound: A Rough Guide to the World in Pictures. The online game tests your travel photography knowledge against the clock; look at the photos, guess where they are [...]
Amazon Rainforest Trip in Photos – Part 1
There are many tours running out of Manaus that offer trips out into the Amazon Rainforest. We booked ours before we arrived after a bit of internet research, one selling point being staying on a floating river lodge.
Suicide Showers, Living on the edge
Probably not the most endearing feature of backpacking in South America, the suicide shower gets its name for the rather dangerous mix of exposed electricity cables and water. If your staying in budget hostels and guesthouse across South America you’ll [...]
Khao Sok National Park, Thailand
Khao Sok National Park situated in Southern Thailand Khao Sok National park consists of the oldest evergreen rainforest in the world, huge limestone khast mountains emerge from the trees with networks of tunnels running throughout.
Khao Sok is situated on Thailand’s [...]
Aqua Safe Straw, Portable Water Purification
The Aqua Safe Straw is a reusable water purification straw, like it says in the instructions is its pretty sturdy and very lightweight. The straw claims to filter out 99.9% of waterborne bacteria and protozoa including Giardia and Cryptosporidium. Neither [...]
