Skardu is surrounded by jagged mountains on all sides. When we visited in August the snow had all melted and it looked more like a mountainous desert landscape in Oman. We’d already hiked up to Marsun Rock which I shared about in a previous post but this is what we got up to on our…
Category: Asia
Flying alongside mountains and hiking Marsun Rock | Skardu, Pakistan
In all our travels we’ve never received a text message at 10:30pm the night before a flight to tell us that the plane would now be departing 2 hours early. If we’d of gone to bed slightly earlier we’d of missed the message and the flight too. Luckily we were able to make it to…
Truck art, friendly locals and colourful mosques | Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Craig was up all night with diarrhoea, maybe from the pani puri that we ate when the lady next to us said “be careful, you will probably get diarrhoea from that”. I was fine though so who knows but it was a terrible day for it to happen as we were about to spend 5…
Our first impressions of Pakistan | Lahore
Pakistan has been on our radar for a few years and now we’re finally making it happen! We flew from the delightful temperatures of a Perth winter to the oven-like heat of Lahore. There was a crowd of men waiting at the arrivals, all wearing a shalwar kameez which is the traditional two piece outfit…
Exploring the little island of Malapascua | The Philippines
We wanted a fairly easy trip in the Philippines with little travelling and more relaxing so we tried to pick islands that were fairly close to each other but we didn’t do a great job of that. Today we were travelling from Moalboal to Malapascua which is a tiny car-less island just above the northern…
Snorkelling with sardines and turtles in Moalboal | The Philippines
As far as travel days go today was pretty damn flawless. Our guesthouse owner in Siquijor drove us to the port at 6:30am in his shiny, white tuktuk. The original plan was to get the slow ferry to save money. Two fast ferries were leaving beforehand so we just sat around and waited until we…
Moped adventures around Siquijor Island | The Philippines
It’s been a long time since we last rented a little moped, I think it was in Myanmar when we whizzed around on a cute little e-bike exploring the ancient temples. Craig always does the driving because I can’t be trusted. He tried teaching me in Thailand back in 2009 on what we thought was…
Flying to the Philippines and our first few days exploring Siquijor Island
Our flight from Seoul to Cebu in The Philippines was an uncomfortable one. I had a mum next to me with an oversized baby with extra long limbs on her lap who was borderline at the stage of requiring it’s own chair. After a huge tantrum with ear piercing screams the baby fell asleep, along…
A crazy mountain hike and our first Korean BBQ | Seoul
Many people visit South Korea for the food, the shopping and the beauty products which seem to be all over social media at the moment. Those aren’t really our interests so our plan was to do something a little different and take a hike in Bukhansan National Park which is just an hour north of…
From Seoul to the mountains in Sokcho | South Korea
We weren’t sure where to head after China but flights to the Philippines were reasonable and laying on a beach sounded rather appealing after the tough hikes in China. The price was basically the same if we flew to South Korea first though so that’s what we planned on doing. It’s not a cheap country…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 