Located just outside of Killarney, Co. Kerry, within an hour and a half’s reach of Ireland’s second biggest city, Cork and about four hours from the capital Dublin is Carrauntoohil, the tallest of the Macgillycuddy’s range and Ireland’s highest peak....
London is not a place that springs to mind when you think of a budget city break but with so much to do and see in the English capital, it’s worth exploring. There is so much on offer in this city and a surprising amount of it is FREE! That’s right, not just cheap but...
After spending just over a year travelling between Nepal ,India, Sri Lanka and Sumatra, with a four-day stop in Singapore thrown in for good measure, arriving in Bangkok was a shock to the system. Travelling in the Sub-Indian continent and Sumatra we had gotten off...
Originally hailing from Northern Thailand and Myanmar, the Batak people were driven out of their homes by invading Mongolian and Siamese tribes. Crossing South East Asia, they arrived in Sumatra and made their first settlements on Palau Samosir, the island which...
The little town of Berastagi in the Karo Highlands of Western Sumatra was to be our final stop before flying to Thailand. The little town is flanked by two volcanos, Gunung Sinabung to the west and Gunung Sibayak to the north. We were here for one reason and one...
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...
While we were staying in the town of Bukkitinggi we realised that we were only 60 kilometres from the equatorial line. We’re not sure why but all of a sudden this seemed like something we had to do! I mean, how often do you get to have one foot in the northern...
