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Off the beaten track

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 [...]

3 Comments » | Featured, Highlights, Off the beaten track, Thailand, feature |

Share Your Off the Beaten Path Travel

I’ve just created a new digg style travel website. Its called Off the Beaten Path Travel and the aim is for it to be a place for travellers to share their favourite lesser known travel treasures with other like minded [...]

1 Comment » | Off the beaten track |

Off the beaten track in New York?

Woop wooh!! We’re off to New York for 5 days next month which we’re very very excited about! We bagged some pretty cheap flights and made a massive saving on a room by bidding for it through Priceline, this has left us [...]

5 Comments » | Holidays, Off the beaten track, USA |

Birds Birds Birds at the Iguazu Falls

Right next to the Iguazu Falls on the Brazilian side, there’s a little Bird Park thats well worth a visit if your visiting the must see Iguazu Falls. There’s all sorts of amazing tropical birds free to fly around you [...]

3 Comments » | Brazil, Highlights, Off the beaten track |

Paradise at Sangalle Oasis, Peru

Most people who visit Peru will visit the Colca Canyon to see the Condors, I’m not sure however how many people venture down into the bottom of the Canyon to the Sangalle Oasis, something that if you don’t mind a [...]

1 Comment » | Off the beaten track, Peru, Places to stay, feature |

Baby Seals near Kaikaura, New Zealand

Driving in to Kaikora from Bleinhem there’s a lookout point over a colony of seals at Ohau point. Whilst we were there a lady told us about a waterfall we’d passed just up the road where you could see baby [...]

6 Comments » | Highlights, New Zealand, Off the beaten track |

Top destinations for getting away from the crowds

For me one thing that can really tarnish the experience and the adventure of backpacking around world is if the places you visit are just home from home or if there’s hoards of other tourists doing exactly the same as [...]

No Comments » | Highlights, Off the beaten track |

Completely Uninhabited Islands

On the beach have just posted a list of 7 Beautiful but Completely Uninhabited Islands and Archipelagos.
Great places to go if you want to get away from people, though how you get there might not be so simple!  I like [...]

2 Comments » | Off the beaten track, World |

Spaghetti and Cheese Ice Cream, Merida, Venezuela

Things to do in Merida – Eat strange flavoured ice cream
Merida has an ice cream parlour that boasts the greatest number of different flavours of ice cream in the world. I tried spaghetti n cheese and the salmon ice cream [...]

4 Comments » | Highlights, Off the beaten track, Venezuela |

Take a ride on the world’s longest cable car, Merida, Venezuela

Reaching an altitude of 4765 m. Merida’s cable car is the highest in the world.

The cable car consists of four sections for a total length of 12.5 km. The altitude at the top is higher than any point in Europe [...]

3 Comments » | Highlights, Off the beaten track, Photos, Venezuela |

Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand

The Moeraki Boulders are huge spherical boulders lying scattered along a stretch of Koekohe Beach between Palmeston and Hampden. They are created from the erosion of mudstone by the waves. There extremely old and look amazing in the swell of [...]

1 Comment » | New Zealand, Off the beaten track, Photos |

Condors at the Colca Canyon, Peru

Twice as deep as the Grand Canyon (though the walls aren’t as sheer) The Colca Canyon is the second deepest Canyon in the world (2nd only to the The Cotahuasi Canyon situated further to the northwest)
The most popular reason for [...]

3 Comments » | Highlights, Off the beaten track, Peru |

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      The main aim of this travel blog is to share travel experiences and hopefully inspire others to travel. When researching my own travels I always focus on the photos and with that in mind I've tried to place an emphasis on travel photos of my favourite destinations. I've also tried to focus on those places to visit and things to do that are slightly off the beaten track of the normal backpacking trip.

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