Click Here For Part 1 Of This Story After a sleepless few hours, it was time. We left our shelter and climbed the final metres out of the shelter of the jungle and that’s when the fun really started. Climbing Mount Kerinci by the lights of our headlamps, we...
Mount Kerinci (or Gunung Kerinci) is Sumatra’s highest peak, Indonesia’s highest volcano and is still active, with eruptions annually. It’s located in the Kerinci Selabat National Park, which is made up, mostly, of thick jungle and inhabited by the endangered Sumatran...
Thousands and thousands of acres of tea plantations lined the narrow roads between Hatton and Dalhousie, the starting point for climbing Adams Peak, also known as Sri Pada. Standing 2,243 meters (7,359ft) the sacred mountain is the fourth highest peak on the island of...
Ella is a small, one street town set among the beautiful rolling green tea field laden hills of Sri Lanka’s Hill Country. While the amazing train journey to get here is reason enough to come to Ella, the main reason for people coming to this small little town is for...
Annapurna Base Camp Trek Day 7: Machhapuchhre Base Camp to Bamboo, taking in Sunrise at Annapurna Base Camp We woke up in the pitch black at 3:30am and slowly, still half asleep, pulled on our trekking clothes, laced up our shoes and ventured out into the crisp...
Annapurna Base Camp Trek Day 4: Tadapani to Chomrong Thankfully the rain had stopped by the time we got up this morning and we had clear skies to begin our walk to Chomrong. At this point the trail splits in two; north-east to Chomrong to join the Annapurna Base Camp...
Annapurna Base Camp Trek Day 1: Naya Pul to Tikhedhungga Starting the day with breakfast in Pokhara, the excitement was building ahead of starting the Annapurna Base Camp trek. The two-hour bus to Naya Pul was the usual ‘life on the edge’ experience, but we made it in...
Everest Base Camp Trek Day 21: Kinja to Bhandhar Way back along we had been told that a direct bus back to Kathmandu was available from Bandhar but that the road was pretty bumpy. Walking now for three weeks, we were tempted to take the bus but had decided that...
