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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 before some strawberry to take the strange taste away.

On the wall there’s a list of [...]

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 and USA excluding Alaska.
The first section starts at Barinitas station (1577m) the corner of the [...]

Having just added a post about Lake Tekapo Youth Hostel in New Zealand it got me thinking about places to stay that have awe inspiring views.

In no particular order here’s some I can remember staying in (will ad more as I remember)

Lake Tekapo Youth Hostel - one of the best hostels with a view I [...]

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 a visit to the Colca Canyon is to see the Andean Condors close up as [...]

A trip to Australia or New Zealand would not be complete without sampling the national dish, the pie.

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.

Every year 300 people die travelling the 50m stretch from La Paz to Corrico. Now a major Bolivian tourist attraction, mountain biking down the road is extremely popular but still very dangerous.

One of my favourite things about travel in Vietnam is the national drink ‘Bia Hoi’. Its probably the cheapest beer in the world with a couple of litres costing as little as 25p. In Vietnam ‘Bia Hoi’ is beer that’s freshly brewed every day and distributed to the many small bars that line the [...]

This remote dusty village is a bit of the beaten track but has one of the best hostels we’ve stayed in.

Well worth the cost of the short flight from Raratonga. I defy anybody not to be blown away by the beautiful crystal clear lagoon and the beautiful sandy beaches. Get away from the busy main tourist island of Raratonga to Aitutaki, a small group of islands surrounding the incredible lagoon. Two of these islands were [...]